Script to pipe emails into Yojimbo
Jim Correia of Bare Bones Software has posted a script to the Yojimbo mailing list that will pipe a selected email from Mail.app into Yojimbo.
This is handy (a) if you use Yojimbo and (b) like me, you find it a bit of a pain to import emails with the “Save PDF to Yojimbo” option in the PDF section of the Print dialog.
The script will import the contents of the email and the sender, subject and date into a new Yojimbo note:
You can copy the text here:
tell application “Mail”
set _sender to sender of m
set _subject to subject of m
set _date to date received of m as string
set _contents to content of m
set _messageString to “From: ” & _sender & return
set _messageString to _messageString & “Subject: ” & _subject & return
set _messageString to _messageString & “Date: ” & _date & return
set _messageString to _messageString & return & return & _contents
end tell
end generateMessageText
on run
tell application “Mail”
tell message viewer 1
set messageList to selected messages
set _name to subject of item 1 of messageList
set _contents to “”
repeat with m in messageList
set _contents to _contents & my generateMessageText(m)
end repeat
tell application “Yojimbo”
make new note item with properties {contents:_contents, name:_name}
end tell
end tell
end tell
end run
Or use this pre-complied version. Save it into the same place as the rest of your mail scripts, maybe give it a keyboard short-cut with FastScripts Lite 
or set a Quicksilver trigger for it or attach it to a Mail Act-on rule, and you’re done.
Nifty. A big thanks to Jim.
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Tags: Apple Mail, applescript, importing messages, mail.app, Productivity, Script, shortcuts, yojimbo
September 6th, 2006 at 5:44 am
Thanks for the Yojimbo and Mail-act tip. It works great!
September 16th, 2006 at 4:57 am
This is very cool. Thanks for the link to the script.
September 18th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
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November 10th, 2006 at 10:42 am
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November 12th, 2006 at 4:24 am
Any idea on how to make this script work with non-Latin based mails? My Cyrillic mails get their subject, from and date entered correctly in Yojimbo, but the actual content of the message gets transferred as mumbo jubmo. I tried changing “as string” to “as Unicode text” in the source, but that didn’t do the trick. If anybody has an idea, please share.
February 12th, 2007 at 3:53 am
Thanks for the script – I use it with Mail Act-On. It is a great time saver for me.
Take care,
Bruce
February 24th, 2008 at 3:30 am
I get an applescript error
Yojimbo got an error: Can’t make application “Yojimbo” into a type specifier on the
make new note item with properties {contents:_contents, name:_name}
line.
May 10th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
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May 17th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
I am completely new to AppleScript. I copied the text above and pasted into AS and pressed “run” but it didn’t work and I have no idea what to do with the pre-compiled version. Can anyone tell me in very simple terms what to do?