Create task from email
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@Kimsman welcome to the forum! Just yesterday another new community member @mesnitu had the same request
so I can almost copy and paste yesterday's answer!Please see this existing feature request about creating tasks and other events from emails https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/53410/copy-email-to-calendar-entry-task-or-create-calendar-entry-from-email and consider voting for it by liking the first post.
About linking tasks and emails together, please also consider voting for this other feature request @mesnitu this may also be of interest to you)
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/57784/allow-linking-to-specific-emails-e-g-m3-db-item -
@WildEnte I did see this post [https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/53410/copy-email-to-calendar-entry-task-or-create-calendar-entry-from-email] and voted for it, but it focuses on calendar integration with mail rather than tasks. I realize "task" is in the heading, but I'm concerned that the integration with tasks will get missed if it isn't spelled out in the body of the request. I'm not really interested in calendar integration, just tasks. (I also saw https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/57784/allow-linking-to-specific-emails-e-g-m3-db-item and voted for it, but have the same concern that it covers a lot of things rather than focuses on tasks.
Thanks for your help/response.
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@Kimsman tasks in Vivaldi are calendar events of the type "task". So in the backend it's the same thing.
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@WildEnte Thanks for clarifying that. I obviously didn't realize/know that. My request is a duplication then. I'll remove it.
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@Kimsman said in Create task from email:
@WildEnte I did see this post [https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/53410/copy-email-to-calendar-entry-task-or-create-calendar-entry-from-email] and voted for it, but it focuses on calendar integration with mail rather than tasks. I realize "task" is in the heading, but I'm concerned that the integration with tasks will get missed if it isn't spelled out in the body of the request. I'm not really interested in calendar integration, just tasks. (I also saw https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/57784/allow-linking-to-specific-emails-e-g-m3-db-item and voted for it, but have the same concern that it covers a lot of things rather than focuses on tasks.
@Kimsman This is how I create a "Task" in Vivaldi Calendar. I select text from an email, & in Email Context Menu, "Add as Calendar Event". In Vivaldi Calendar, click on pencil and you should see "Task" as an option. By assigning the new item as a Task, it changes the event to a 'Task' & will appear up w a checkbox to check off when it's complete. I believe you can also add reminders, etc. Does that help you?
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@janrif This helps, but you don't get a link to the email. I like to create a task and then link back to the email that caused me to create the task to get the context/background and be able to reply to the email to let the sender know I've completed what they asked, if relevant.
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@Kimsman said in Create task from email:
@janrif This helps, but you don't get a link to the email. I like to create a task and then link back to the email that caused me to create the task to get the context/background and be able to reply to the email to let the sender know I've completed what they asked, if relevant.
@Kimsman It seems that Vivaldi may create a URL along with the event under certain (but not all) circumstances. There's a wonderful (independently created & maintained) program named "Zoot" by Tom Davis which does exactly what you want and anything else you can think of with any kind of data. It's an amazing piece of work that Tom has been working on for years, maybe decades.
And.....there are some brilliant people on this forum who may be able to figure something out in Vivaldi's current configuration or to fashion a requested improvement for the future. I was thinking that every email has an identifying # and that may offer a solution but that's way over my head.
Anyway, good luck and Happy New Year.