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rajjan

Here is the Firefox+Internet Explorer (maybe it works for other browsers too) javascript for the bookmarklet above (replace "#" with "javascript" followed by a ":"):

#(function(){h='m.rememberthemilk.com';p='/add';if(window.getSelection){t=window.getSelection();}else if(document.getSelection){t=document.getSelection();}else if(document.selection){t=document.selection.createRange().text;}; cp='http://'+h+p+'?name='+t; w=window.open(cp,'addwindow','status=no,toolbar=no,width=200,height=560,resizable=yes'); setTimeout(function(){w.focus();}, 500);})();

Create a toolbar button and paste all text above into "address". If you select some text before using the button the task field gets filled with that text.

In my humble opinion this bookmarklet works better than the RTM one as it allows setting all the fields in one go in one place. It's even easier than adding tasks directly at the site as things are added at different places there.

Love RTM though, just the adding tasks part needs improving ;-)

Posted at 8:53am on November 8, 2007

rajjan

Easier: pull this link into the bookmarks area:

Add to RTM!

Edit the button (right-click it, choose Properties) and replace the "http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/tips/3133/#" in the beginning of the adress with "javascript" followed by a ":"

Posted at 9:19am on November 8, 2007

rajjan

I have modified this Quick Add page a bit in order to have default values and list boxes to choose from. You can find it at my homepage.

However, you'll need to modify two things before you can use it (or modify it further):
1 Have it to choose from your lists
2 Have it to choose from your locations

You can find this (and as a matter of fact even copy the code) by viewing the source code from this page.

I would suggest that you then create a bookmark that uses your version of this page. Easiest way is probably to modify the javascript above. Unfortunately I haven't managed to get the select-text-in-advance-part to work yet.

Posted at 10:29am on November 8, 2007

Thanks, this works great!

Posted at 6:45pm on December 5, 2007

rajjan

Glad you like!

Posted at 7:30am on December 6, 2007

anyway to get the URL automatcally entered?

Posted at 11:43pm on December 13, 2007

rajjan

Add '+&url='+location.href to the java_script:

java_script: (function(){h='m.rememberthemilk.com';p='/add';if(window.getSelection){t=window.getSelection();}else if(document.getSelection){t=document.getSelection();}else if(document.selection){t=document.selection.createRange().text;}; cp='http://'+h+p+'?name='+t'+&url='+location.href; w=window.open(cp,'addwindow','status=no,toolbar=no,width=200,height=560,resizable=yes'); setTimeout(function(){w.focus();}, 500);})();

(Remove the "_" in java_script)

As for fixing this in the html file above, I didn't succeed. Java_script is more flexible.

Posted at 11:46am on December 14, 2007

westis

Great tip!

How can I have the task line to be focused, so I only have to start tyoing when the window pops up? That is, like for the official quick add tool.

Now the window pops up, but then loses focus, so I have to click the window, then the input box for the task name. Small thing, but kinda troublesome in the long run.

Btw, when I add the code to add the URL the popup window doesn't open. Nothing happens when I click the toolbar button...

Tack rajjan! :)

Posted at 11:31pm on January 4, 2008

rajjan

Sorry, the ' before the URL is in the wrong place (java_script is rather picky ;-)

java_script: (function(){h='m.rememberthemilk.com';p='/add';if(window.getSelection){t=window.getSelection();}else if(document.getSelection){t=document.getSelection();}else if(document.selection){t=document.selection.createRange().text;}; cp='http://'+h+p+'?name='+t+'&url='+location.href; w=window.open(cp,'addwindow','status=no,toolbar=no,width=200,height=560,resizable=yes'); setTimeout(function(){w.focus();}, 500);})();

(Remove the "_" in java_script)

As for getting focus, I really don't know, I know very little java_script. Maybe someone else has a solution?

Lycka till westis!

Posted at 9:36pm on January 6, 2008

this bookmarklet requires me to log in to the mobile site before I can add a task. RTM's incomplete bookmarklet posts to the main RTM site. Is there a way to use this revised bookmarklet on the main site, so I don't have to log in to the mobile site?

Posted at 5:22pm on March 4, 2008

That is very clever, Rajjan! Thanks!!

Posted at 6:14pm on March 4, 2008

rajjan

tmech: If you log into the mobile site you will remain logged-in for quite some time (weeks). Unless that's a problem (shared computer for example) you only need to log in once in a while.

Posted at 1:29pm on March 5, 2008

Thank you Thank you Raiijan! This is a lifesaver!

Posted at 11:59pm on June 12, 2008

rajjan

Glad I saved your life ;-)

Posted at 7:57am on June 16, 2008

tafkaj

This is really helpful! It's also a good idea to escape the URL so that complex URLs (such as URLs to specific messages in Gmail) aren't chopped short: just replace +location.href with +escape(location.href);

Posted at 6:42pm on July 5, 2008

I do but I don't understand what you guys did.. probably cause I just fell into the HTML scripting wagon. This is a pop up possibly a widget-like thing -does it direct to my account automatically if I open up a RTF page and then copy the Web page address and place the address in href area? I think I get that much but can you go alittle further and highlight an example of what the string I'm looking for looks like too? like a before and after.

It's for desktop versions only?- I'd copy this to a text doc and save as a html right so I can open in a browser page by clicking the icon right?

Sorry~ not afraid to crash my computer... just rather not do it itf I don't have to...thanks guys!

Posted at 6:20pm on July 19, 2008

Okay I got it and added a couple more drop downs but one thing still escapes me-- I can't get the notes section to show up correctly... did anyone else get that cut and paste script done correctly? Pls, pls pls, post it, thanks!

Posted at 10:26pm on July 19, 2008

Thanks, Rajjan!!!

I dusted off my java_script, and figured out how you can auto-fill the form, and took care of some of the other requests above (focus on the task name) so now everything seems to work pretty well and neatly.

Whether adding a web item or not, I find this solution preferable to using the RTM interface -- I can easily pop it up this window no matter what page I'm on whenever I think of a task. For this reason, I've actually created two pages, "addNew" (add a general task) and "addThis" (add specific info from this web page). The below relates to "addThis":

Note to all: as discussed above, you must host your own "addThis" web page for this all to work, but there are plenty of free places on the web that you could do that. I've tested everything in FireFox 3.0. Other browsers may not work.

First, my "ADD_THIS to RTM" java_script in my bookmarks tool bar uses the selected text as the due date, the page title as task name, and URL as url:

java_script:(function(){h='www.myServer.com';p='/myDirectory/addThis.html';if(window.getSelection){d=window.getSelection();}else%20if(document.getSelection){d=document.getSelection();}else%20if(document.selection){d=document.selection.createRange().text;};cp='http://'+h+p+'?due='+encodeURIComponent(d)+'&name='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href);w=window.open(cp,'addwindow','status=no,toolbar=no,width=250,height=560,resizable=yes');setTimeout(function(){w.focus();},500);})();

(Remove the "_" in java_script)

Now the HTML page - I've added a "name" to the form to be able to address its elements easily, and I've added java_script at the end of the page that reads the variables from the URL (the script above will actually request "addThis.html?url=TheURL&name=pageTitle&due=selected_text). Demo file can be found at:

http://www.4shared.com/file/65287306/cee76d4a/demo-addThis.html


My general "ADD_NEW to RTM" bookmark script doesn't pull any info off the page, and my html page doesn't have java_script to set the fields automatically, so I just get a blank slate to fill in. Whereas on my addThis page I have a few tags that I use for web items in a drop-down, addNew just has an empty text box. But it's basically the same, just pared down a bit.

The addNew java_script is
java_script:(function(){h='www.myServer.com';p='/myDirectory/addNew.html';cp='http://'+h+p;w=window.open(cp,'addwindow','status=no,toolbar=no,width=250,height=560,resizable=yes');setTimeout(function(){w.focus();},500);})();

(again, remove the "_" in java_script)

Posted at 11:53pm on October 1, 2008

Here is a demo file. The free web host adds some of their own junk into the html, so the link in the prior post above is useful for getting the actual HTML file, but this suffices as an example.

The javascipt: (You can just pull this link into the bookmarks area)

Demo Add_This to RTM

Edit the bookmark button (right-click it, choose Properties) and replace the "http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/tips/3133/#" in the beginning of the address with "javascript" followed by a ":"

It won't actually add tasks to your list, because you need to add your own list IDs in the HTML (see post above dated 6:29am on November 8, 2007)

Posted at 12:46am on October 2, 2008

One more version of the bookmarklet:

- uses the mobile version of the UI
- 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

java_script:(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);})();

NOTE: remove the "_" in java_script

Posted at 6:31pm on November 14, 2008

Thanks ryankennedy
That is awesome dude.

Posted at 2:38am on November 17, 2008

Thanks for this bookmarklet

Posted at 5:23pm on March 23, 2009

rileycentral

There is some awesome stuff to play with here. Thanks for posting it.

Posted at 6:42pm on March 24, 2009

sailesh

Thanks to rajjan and ryankennedy - exactly what I was looking for!!

Posted at 10:01am on March 25, 2009

rileycentral

Did anyone ever find out how to get the "Notes" entry to show up in the marklet?

Posted at 3:37am on April 24, 2009

I'm returning to this page for the second time (to share this bookmarklet with a friend) and I just wanted to say thanks for the few iterations of this bookmarklet!

It may sound silly, but I've all but replaced my todo tag in Delicious/Firefox with actual tasks. It's great to have everything I need to do in one place, regardless of medium. :)

Posted at 11:49am on May 6, 2009

leah.shalom

Thanks to all for the bookmarklet - it is almost as good as having Quicksilver on the pc.

Posted at 5:25pm on May 6, 2009

rajjan

Thanks to bay879 and ryankennedy for adding the final touches to the javascript, it's now perfect! Let's see when RTM updates their Quick Add bookmarklet ;-)

Posted at 7:39am on May 7, 2009

Useful tip, thanks !

Posted at 8:56am on May 7, 2009

frankly, the main contributors deserve a free pro membership... only ryankennedy doent have one, though. thanks all, this is great!

Posted at 12:32pm on May 7, 2009

Is there any way to add auto complete on the tags in these bookmarklets?

Posted at 11:42pm on May 16, 2009

I don't think autocomplete works at all on the mobile site, but I've noticed that Firefox's autocomplete works for tags I've previously added to other tasks.

Posted at 2:01pm on May 18, 2009

Thanks for the info

Posted at 11:07pm on May 28, 2009

Two questions about ryankennedy's code.

1) How can I change the default list from Inbox?
2) Is it possible to have the window close after hitting the 'Add Task' button?

Posted at 5:42pm on June 3, 2009

hakeemshabazz,
1. I assume it's based on the Inbox being your default list. What if you change that on the Lists tab of your Settings?
2. Not currently; it simply uses the mobile interface (which doesn't do that).

Posted at 2:09pm on June 4, 2009

Thank you. I wonder why the RTM team hasn't incorporated everyone's hard work into an official update to their bookmarklet (that doesn't use the mobile login)?

Posted at 3:12pm on June 4, 2009

benb

Great tweak to the bookmarklet.
I want to have the name field focus, but don't want to bother hosting my own version of the page. Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work (the name field is the first instance of an input element on the page).

java_script:(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();document.getElementsByTagName('input')[0].focus();},500);})();

Posted at 9:57am on June 16, 2009

I didn't find this thread when I searched, so re-invented the wheel!
however the version I've made here works as a local html file which then pre-populates an email using the mailto: tag, that way it goes into your outbox and so works offline too.

http://ensemb.li/4c

It works a treat on Google Chrome, with IE I think you might need to mess with the security settings a bit

Posted at 1:33pm on June 17, 2009

benb

Any JavaScript people out there who can tell me what's wrong with my script above?

Posted at 2:35pm on June 23, 2009