[rmathes]

On the OF home page where it talks about the cool features, it says:

Add tasks via Mail
Send yourself todos when you’re on the go. OmniFocus watches for incoming mails that are tasks you send yourself and automically adds them to your OmniFocus inbox


so, how does one use this functionality? I can’t find anything about it. I know how to use Clippings, but frankly, Clippings is a pain in the butt. I don’t want to have to select text within an email to get it into OF. I want to just be reviewing email, hit a button (like F6 in iGTD) and boom, it’s dumped into the inbox.

I realize this is probably different than what the feature above is talking about, but if I can figure out how to use the feature, maybe I can adapt it by rule or something to a suitable workflow.

[pjb]

See the application Preferences. Checking the box in the Mail pane adds a Rule to Mail. The syntax is now available in the help.

[rmathes]

cool, thanks. Got it to work.

And I've been able to address the Jott issue by simply adding another criteria there.

Question: I tried to duplicate the rule and then edit it into a Mail Act On rule so that I could invoke it at the mail level to simply take an email and just move it to the inbox instead of having to use Clippings. So far I can’t get that to work. Has anyone used this functionality in this way?

[Craig]

Originally Posted by rmathes

Question: I tried to duplicate the rule and then edit it into a Mail Act On rule so that I could invoke it at the mail level to simply take an email and just move it to the inbox instead of having to use Clippings. So far I can’t get that to work. Has anyone used this functionality in this way?

For that, I've found Curt Clifton's script to work well.

[wambli]

Is there a way to use Microsoft Entourage instead of Mac Mail?

[askon]

This feature works well. Unfortunately my wife saw these forums and now knows that sending me an email with a -- adds a item automatically to my to do listings (inbox) in OmniFocus.

Thanks.... Thanks a lot.