Quickly email yourself with “Note to Self”
Will Henderson has written a “micro-app” that lets you quickly email a note, to-do or reminder to yourself in Mail.app.
He got frustrated by iCal’s to-dos, which didn’t quite do what he wanted, as he explains:
For a while now, I’ve been sending myself todos via iCal, but that’s not good enough – it requires a net connection and it doesn’t cover many usage scenarios, i.e.
• I want a task that doesn’t have a particular due date
• I want a task that can be filed or tagged (using Mailtags, of course)
• I want searchable notes attached to my task
Despite a small bug (notes are sometimes sent to the Drafts folder not the Inbox), the app does a good job.
You can collect the notes or to-dos in a smart mailbox easily. A condition that matches “Yourself” as a recipient catches them all.
This may appeal to people who are interested in using Mail.app as a personal information manager or as a “Yojimbo substitute” as well as those who like Will want more flexible and taggable to-dos.
Note to Self is donation-ware and is available from Will’s web site .
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Tags: Apple Mail, helpful apps, iCal, information manager, mail.app, Notes, Productivity, to dos
August 8th, 2006 at 4:07 am
How does this compare to the functionality previewed in Leopard?
August 8th, 2006 at 6:57 am
It doesn’t, really. =). With mailtags, it works very well as a solution, but there’s nothing better than an app being used the way it is designed.
August 8th, 2006 at 11:14 pm
It’s hard to tell, but for starters it looks like Leopard’s notes are Rich Text Format.
I’ll be using Will’s app – and be glad to have it – in the meantime.
August 10th, 2006 at 2:51 am
I really like the idea behind this program. I’ve been looking for something like it. I think it’s a great idea! But its always putting things in the Drafts for me. And if I have multiple mailboxes, does it just it in the first one?
And also is it supposed to clear the input fields after you hit send?
Thanks again for a great little program!
August 10th, 2006 at 3:18 am
Sorry for the bugs – Mail.app’s applescript support, which I have to rely on for moving the message arround after it is created, is rather unpredicatable. I have an updated version I am testing. Please email me if you want to try it out and test it on your system (since the script it was using seems to have totally different problems on different machines).
August 10th, 2006 at 3:58 am
What is the best way to contact you to try out the latest version? Or is it online somewhere?
Thanks
August 10th, 2006 at 4:04 am
william DOT (AS IN PERIOD) c DOT (THE ONE NEXT TO COMMA) henderson AT THE MAIL SERVER reed DOT edu
sorry, don’t want to get any spam =). In the future I’ll just post updates/betas at my blog.
August 10th, 2006 at 9:55 am
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