suggestion: Shift-Drop from Outlook to MLO

[Dwight Arthur]

The linkage between MLO and Outlook is arguably the stongest link MLO has to any other application. I frequently open my email inbox, delete the stuff I don't care about, respond to every message that can be dealt with in 30 seconds or so, and drag what's left into MLO. The messages dropped into MLO are converted to tasks with the email subject as the task caption and the email body as the task  note. Attachments, inline graphics and rich text are lost which is unfortunate but the top of the task note is an automatically created link back to the email, One click on the link and the email pops open in all of its illustrated rich-text glory. Everything I want to accomplish happens in a single click or drag/drop, making this efficient and easy to use. With one exception.

When you drop more than one message into MLO, a pop up window asks if you want to create a separate task for each message, or a single task comprising all of them. After the thousandth time you answer that question, it gets old.

Suggestion: MLO should offer drag&drop - which creates a single task for each message, or drag&shift/drop - which creates a single task combining multiple messages.

What do you think?

-Dwight

[robert roszak]

I get "The operating system denied access to the specified file" when I click the link MLO automatically has created on the top of note field of the task. I guess it's my system's fault rather than MLO itself. What setting should I change to get it working?

Robert

[Michael G.]

Dwight,

Do you know if there is anyway to do this without having to drag and drop? i've been using a MS Surface Pro and like this feature that's easy to do with a mouse and multiple windows open on a large screen. Couldn't find a solution to do this without drag and drop which is difficult on a small trouch screen.

[Dwight Arthur]

Hi, Michael. No, I don’t know any way to do this without using drag&drop. I tried a few ideas but nothing worked.

 

I don’t know much about Windows 8 or later but I can tell you that drag&drop is still viable on a small screen showing only a single open window at a time on Windows 7. I won’t call it “easy” but it’s definitely do-able. Bring up MLO, and make sure that the folder where you want to put the new tasks is visible in the current view. Bring up Outlook (covering MLO. Select the messages for which you want to create tasks. With multiple messages highlighted, click-and drag on one of them in order to drag them all. Drag them to the taskbar and hover (without dropping) over the MLO icon in the taskbar. After hovering for a second or two, you will see MLO move to the foreground, covering Outlook. Still being careful not to drop the messages that you are dragging, drag them to the target folder in the MLO window, then drop them.

 

If you have the taskbar or some equivalent in Windows 8 you should be able to use this. -Dwight

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[Michael G.]

Dwight,

Thanks for the tip, I'll try this and let you know how it works for me.

Regards-Michael G.

[Michael Ausbrook]

You can avoid the otherwise-necessary dragging Dwight quite accurately describes by using alwasy-on-top (web site here; direct download link here.) It's just an Autohotkey script that toggles a window as always on top with Ctrl-Space. It takes almost no ram and sits in the taskbar with a "DI" icon. If you have an MLO window open but not maximized, you can keep it on top while you drag directly from Outlook instead of having to do the taskbar dance, which I tired of long ago.

Tuppence,

-Michael

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[John Smith]

Strange - is there  no way to forward your emails to a particular MLO email address?

J

[Henk Walraven]

Yes, this possible.

In your cloud account, you can find the option 'task by email'.

When your forward your mail to that address, then will appear in your MLO Inbox.

[John Smith]

Got it - thanks

J