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Advanced email integration

(closed account) says:
Good afternoon,

How about some advanced features for sending tasks to RTM by email?
In particular, I'm thinking about adding tags automatically.

For example the email with title

Buy milk list:Personal date:today tag:@errand loc:supermarket

would create a task "Buy milk" due today in the "Personal" list with the appropriate tag and location.

As before, the body of the email would become a note.

What do you people think?
Posted at 9:00pm on July 3, 2008
maseratij says:
I went down this path today. I was actually trying to use the same syntax when entering new tasks while in the program and the the GMail add-on. Makes sense to me.
Posted 16 years ago
(closed account) says:
I actually understand similar feature exist, but putting tags in the body of the email instead of the title.
I did not dig into it however.
Posted 16 years ago
ranbarton Power Poster says:
@stan.belot - The existing feature is here: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/answers/sending/emailinbox.rtm

@RTM Here I go again...

Pardon what must seem repetitive, but when I see the same good ideas surfacing over and over, I am compelled to note the fact.

The idea of parsing the text in the data entry field, and in inbound emails, has been around since RTM was wet behind the ears, and I have watched the idea resurface over and over. Heck, much of this can already be done with RTM using the Firefox extension in Gmail.

See below for prior threads along these same lines:

http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/211/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/1633/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/1923/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/2229/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/2270/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/2393/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/2425/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/2580/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/2650/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/3017/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/3088/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/3126/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/3414/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/gmail/4405/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/4565/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/4860/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/4878/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/4893/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/4923/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/5057/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/5135/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/6091/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/6427/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/tips/6456/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/6566/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/tips/6613/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/tips/6767/

Phew. Maybe one day Bob will get around to this.
Posted 16 years ago
(closed account) says:
Thanks for the link
Posted 16 years ago
This idea is considered similar to "Include due dates and other properties in one line with the task name", and all votes have been transferred to that idea.