link in MLO to mail in Google mail?

[Steve04]

Dear all,

 

I can use drag and drop to link an Outlook email into MLO.

Is there anything similar in can use or do to do this with mails in Google mail? Or copy an URL of a mail that could be added to the notes section of a task in MLO?

I was not successful to find this in the group - sorry if this was discussed before.

 

Many thanks and best regards

 

Stefan

 

[robisme (Olivier R)]

Yes you can. Just copy the link and paste it in the note.

Didn't you try? Did you have an issue? (be sure to be logged in with the browser that will be used, ie the "default" browser.

Olivier

[Steve04]

Thanks Olivier!

 

I was blind and didn't see the obvious.....Never realized that there is an URL per mail.... stupid....

 

Many thanks and best regards

 

Stefan

 

[Lisa Stroyan]

Has anyone tested whether those links are stable through label changes, archiving, etc.?

Lisa Stroyan, lstr...@gmail.com

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[Mark]

Seems to work with label changes, I have just done some very limited tests...

[robisme (Olivier R)]

Yes it works. Even does it if you delete the message. It's a link toward the entire conversation, and you get a message "one mail has been deleted from this conversation" (approximate translation, sorry).

Olivier

[Joe]

I use Zapier ( https://zapier.com/ ) to automate this. 

I have a Zap that automatically triggers when I set a self-created Gmail label of "MLO" to any email. The Zap sends that labelled email to my MLO file via the cloudsync email address and it turns up in my inbox while automatically embedding the original Gmail link in the notes field of the task - one click gets you back to the original Gmail email.

Doing it this way means I can process my email pretty quickly (even from my smartphone), just assigning "MLO" labels to any email that I want to see turn up later in my MLO file for further processing.

[m...@grantsmiths.org]

Joe, thanks for this tip, it sounds exactly like what I would want to use. I got stopped, though, by the price. For those who have not been to the vendor’s website yet, there’s a free version but its limited to doing 100 things per month, or about 3 task-worthy emails per day. I am running more like 8-10 per day. The “basic” subscription to Zapier runs $15/month and allows 3000/month or about 100/day, but I don’t know that I can justify $15/month ($1,800.00 per decade) for this function.

-Dwight

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[Lisa Stroyan]

Thanks to both of you, for the information and for the pricing.

Joe, can you tell me what happens when you get to the end of your free zaps? Will it notify you that it couldn't work, so that you know the task wasn't sent?

Lisa Stroyan, lstr...@gmail.com

[Joe]

@Lisa,

Sorry, I don't know if it notifies you when you run out of zaps - I'm signed up for the Basic Plan. Though, having used it for a number of months, Zapier seems like a pretty clued-up and reliable service so I'd be surprised if there wasn't some kind of notification.

On Thursday, 6 June 2013 18:41:50 UTC+1, Lisa S wrote:

> Joe, can you tell me what happens when you get to the end of your free zaps? Will it notify you that it couldn't work, so that you know the task wasn't sent?

@Dwight - Yes, it's not free unfortunately but I'm on the $15 dollar a month service and, for what I need and the time it saves, I can live with it for now.

If cost is a consideration then there is a free Google Apps script that does a similar "Gmail Label --> Email" function at http://www.harryonline.net/evernote/new-version-of-gmail-to-evernote-script-creates-link-to-gmail-in-evernote/406 but it's for emailing to Evernote . I used it for a while and it does the job but I was using it only for Evernote. Haven't tried it but I don't see why you couldn't just enter an MLO email address instead and see what happens. I'll probably try that myself at some point in the future but just got a lot on the go at the moment.   

[David Rees]

Where can I find out more about the cloudsync email address and how that works? It sounds very cool. Is that supported directly by MLO cloudsync or is it a Zapier thing?  

d

[David Rees]

If there is a MLO cloudsync email address that you can just send emails to then it should be pretty straightforward to write your own version using Apps Script with Gmail Services - https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/gmail/. The ID that used in the URL can be pulled using GmailThread.getId().

I haven't tried out cloudsync yet. I hadn't realized it had an email bridge. If there is a trial then I would be happy to sign up for it and hack a script out that does this.

d

[Alexandra Borovytskaya]

You can see more info here:
http://blog.mylifeorganized.net/2012/02/task-by-email-released-on-mlo-cloud.html

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[Dwight]

David, there's no free trial period for MLO cloud sync. The shortest chunk of time you can buy costs about $3US.

The most frequent enhancement request for tasks-by-email is for optional parsing of the email subject to extract coded dates, contexts, importance and urgency, etc.
-Dwight

[David Rees]

Cool, when I get a chance I will take a look at how to script this. It should be pretty straight forward.

d

[Nat Gross]

1. Thank you much to Joe (blue..) for this idea!

2. I tried this with IFTTT, and it works! (They let you have a few channels for free,) 

This is preliminary. But basically if you assign a given label to any gmail, it will send it to anyone you want to. 

This I tested and it works.

I am not sure how to embed the email's url, although it seems like ifttt's macro language supports it. (I am not well versed in ifttt, just hopped over there when I saw this thread here.)

Have fun!

nat

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[Ben Böhmer]

I forward the email to the MLO Cloud sync email. Not that much more effort than assigning a label, and requires no third party service.
Another too obvious to notice solution? ;)
Or am I missing something?