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Hi jczelust,

We don't currently have a service that converts web pages to tasks, sorry. However, we do offer the Quick Add Bookmarklet which you can add to your browser's bookmarks bar. This makes it easy to add a task while you're browsing. While the bookmarklet doesn't include a URL field, you can also add a web page's URL to the task for easy retrieval later.

Hope this helps!

Posted 8 months ago

rajjan

You could make your own bookmarklet using this code (spaces inserted for clarity, remove if needed):

javascript:(function(){h='m.rememberthemilk.com';p='/add';if(window.getSelection) {t=window.getSelection();}else%20if(document.getSelection) {t=document.getSelection();}else%20if(document.selection) {t=document.selection.createRange().text;}; cp='http://'+h+p+'?name='+((null==t||t==""||t==undefined)?encodeURIComponent(document.title):t)+' &url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href); w=window.open(cp,'addwindow','status=no,toolbar=no,width=250,height=560,resizable=yes'); setTimeout(function(){w.focus();},500);})();

Some advantages over the Quick Add provided by RTM (RTM, feel free to copy ;-)
- uses the mobile version of the UI (well, not really an advantage, but a necessary step)
- uses browser's current URL in the new task's URL field
- if you have selected text, uses that as the task name, otherwise it uses the Page Title

Posted 8 months ago

zkestenbaum

rajjan - that's great, I've been looking for something like that.

Posted 8 months ago

rajjan

Thanks! Using this bookmarklet, you have to login to the mobile site once in a while (weeks?) but apart from that, I prefer this bookmarklet to the one provided by RTM.

Posted 8 months ago

axehandle

This is helpful, thanks! I made the mistake of assuming the Quick Add bookmarklet included the URL, which left me confused with a batch of todos with no URL. And, where are GMail link stored? I can't see them outside the RTM-GMail browser plugin.

Bob, please have your team update your Quick Add bookmarklet to include a URL... your URL field in each task is a great feature, so use it!

Posted 6 months ago

Hi axehandle,
The Gmail Add-on's connection to the original email message is only available to the add-on. You're not currently able to access it from the web app or other services, sorry.

Thanks for your feedback on the bookmarklet!

Posted 6 months ago