[SpiralOcean]

I've been thinking about a feature but not sure how helpful it would be.

When processing emails, I would like to drag an email to the OF dock icon. My hope is this would create a new inbox task item, along with a link to the email.
I could then archive the email.
When I get to that task, I can click on a link in the task that opens the email.

Is this something that would be helpful for people?

I'd use it for sure.

[Toadling]

I agree. OmniFocus' Dock icon should accepted any dragged object that contains sufficient information to create an attachment to a new Inbox task (or optionally appear in the Quick Entry window). This already works for dragged text snippets, so extending it to work with dragged emails from Apple Mail or files and folders from the Finder only seems natural.

-Dennis

[skylarp]

I would use this feature quite often. It could be analogous to the data detectors in Leopard that allow easy creation of iCal events from Mail.

[Greg Jones]

Doesn't the Clip-O-Tron 3000 do all of this for you now, or are you looking to get the same functionality of the CoT by dragging and dropping the messages?

[Toadling]

Yeah, this can already be done with the Clip-O-Tron. What I'm looking for, personally, is just more useful behaviors for the Dock icon as a drag target.

-Dennis