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2008-09-06, 05:30 AM
Well, I'm not sure what the difference here would be between flagging a message and using CTRL+SPACEBAR (or whatever your clipping shortcut is set to) to capture messages into OmniFocus.
I suppose it saves you a keystroke in the event that you want to do both (ie, SHIFT+CMD+L to flag and then CTRL+SPACEBAR to capture), but that doesn't seem like too much of an imposition.
Note that if a message is flagged in Mail, it will create a flagged action in OmniFocus as well, so the order of operations is important.
Further, if you're capturing your messages into OmniFocus, you may not actually need to flag them in the first place. OF maintains a link back to your messages in Mail app, which you can click to get back to the original message.
If you wanted to do both with a single keystroke, you could get Mail Act-on and just create a rule that flags the selected message and then calls an Applescript to create an OmniFocus task from that message. There's a good Applescript out there that can do this for you, but it's been largely deprecated by OF's own clipping capabilities, so it's no longer being actively maintained.