Creating Reminder from selected mail

[Steinway]

Michael Raphael created a workflow for creating a link from a selected Mac Mail (https://alfred.app/workflows/sepulchra/mail-link/).

 

Any pointers on how I create an Apple Reminder with the link to the mail?

[sepulchra]

It looks like Reminders can be scripted extensively using applescript:

 

https://gist.github.com/n8henrie/c3a5bf270b8200e33591

 

It looks like the notes can be scripted as well.

[Steinway]

16 minutes ago, sepulchra said:

It looks like Reminders can be scripted extensively using applescript:

 

https://gist.github.com/n8henrie/c3a5bf270b8200e33591

 

It looks like the notes can be scripted as well.

 

Cool - thx. I'll give that a further look :-)

[sepulchra]

Let us know how you get on. It looks like there are quite a number of parameters you could script and build a very useful workflow that many would be interested in.

[Steinway]

Got the first version working

 

It creates a reminder in 📥 Indbakke (change to your preferred folder) with the name of the sender and the subject of the mail. In the body of the reminder it pastes a link to the e-mail.

From what I can find on Google, it is not possible to insert the link in the URL of the reminder...

 

tell application "Mail"
	set _msg to item 1 of (get selection)
	set _messageURL to "message://%3c" & _msg's message id & "%3e"
	set _msgSubject to subject of _msg
	set _from to sender of _msg
	set _name to extract name from _from
	set theInfo to (_name & " - " & _msgSubject)
	set theLink to _messageURL
	tell application "Reminders"
		set mylist to list "📥 Indbakke"
		tell mylist
			make new reminder at end with properties {name:theInfo, body:theLink}
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

 

[sepulchra]

When i was looking around, it looked like the notes field was scriptable. Can your URL go there?

[Steinway]

The notes-field is “body”, so yup; thats where the link goes.