Comments on: Create iCal To-do: Applescript for Apple Mail

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By: Victor van Herpt Valdivia

Victor van Herpt Valdivia — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:46:39 +0000

I just wanted to say thanks, your script has been very helpful, i’ve been testing entourage just because i couldn’t create tasks from Mail directly, but I found it not reliable enough.

Thanks to you, now I am back to my initial Mail / iCal setup!
Greetings from Spain,
Victor

By: Adam P

Adam P — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:10:46 +0000

I’m wondering if you can help me with something. I want to create a script to do something very similar. I have an email address set up just for emailing myself (or other people emailing me) events. I don’t work well with to do lists, but I manage a lot of events. I have already set up iCal to automatically publish changes to a phpiCalendar installation on my website. What I want to do is automate the process of taking the email and creating an iCal event out of it. Leopard Mail already has a lot of the recognition built in, so I’d like to utilize that if I can. For instance, it will take the subject of an email as the event title and parse the email for times and dates.

A typical email I send to myself is something like this

subject: picnic @ blackhawk park

body:
July 19
4pm – 6 pm
calendar: home
notes: bring a salad & drinks

Can you give me some tips on how to create an applescript to do that? I’ve already got the mail rule set up to filter messages coming to that email account into a folder. I just have never used applescript before, so it’s kind of intimidating.

Thanks – Adam

By: Scotty

Scotty — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:11:48 +0000

I’m curious whether it’s possible to modify this script to add new events instead of to dos. For example, I get emails that are task assignments. The email subject line would read something like “New Task Assignment: Put DVCAM in Room 706″. I would want this info to be placed in the New Event section. The ‘location’ wouldn’t be as necessary because the info is already in the New Event section. Then the body of the email contains all the information for the given task. This would be put in the notes section of the event. The calendar would be set to “Work”. The ‘from’ and ‘to’ sections would be filled in with the DUE information from the body of the email. Perhaps, the ‘from’ time can be set as 1 hour before the task is due. The ‘to’ is set to when the task is due. Hopefully this all makes sense. The purpose of all this is to have events that can be syncronized to an iphone.

This is what the body of an email typically looks like:

TASK NAME: Please install DVCAM deck and media dock in Rm706
ASSIGNED BY: Shikha
PROJECT: Absence
CATEGORY: DECK RENTAL
DUE: Monday, February 25, 2008 10:00:00 AM EST
PRIORITY: 2-Normal
STATUS: 1-Not Started
ASSIGNED TO: Scott
VISIBLE TO: Scott

DETAILS:
Please install a DVCAM deck and media dock in Rm706.

BISP is using the room all week till Fri 2/22.
Installs will need to be done first thing Mon 2/25 AM so the editor for “absence”
can start @ 10a.m.

Thanks!

To access the task in the web office, click the link below:

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:58:29 +0000

I have been searching for a script to do exactly this. Thanks very much for putting this together.

By: Muninn » Create Yojimbo Note: Applescript for Apple Mail

Muninn » Create Yojimbo Note: Applescript for Apple Mail — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:24:42 +0000

[…] My last few postings have all been tech related. Since most of my history related postings are also Asian history related postings, I post those increasingly at Frog in a Well. I’ve been in a hacking mood in the last few weeks, especially since I’ve been working on some new projects at Frog in a Well in my spare time. My last two scripts are essentially shortcuts for creating iCal To-Dos. The first provides a fast way to use Quicksilver to create To-do items without leaving whatever application you are working in. The second provides a way for you to email yourself To-dos that then automatically tell iCal to create a To-Do with content from the email. […]

By: Kerim Friedman

Kerim Friedman — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:22:17 +0000

Have you looked at MailTags?

http://www.indev.ca/MT2Beta.html