Best,
-Adam

Help…

Nice scripts.

I notice that when a message is saved as a task, the email headers are stripped. It would be handy to save a message as a task. Then later, convert the task to a message. Although the scripts permit that, the address info is lost. This requires the email to have to be linked.

A second observation. If a message is converted to a task and linked, and then the message is moved, the link is lost. Following GTD practices, I move the email to a folder called @actions. In order to keep the link, I first have to move the file to @Actions, go there, and then run the script. It would be nicer if the script did all that for me from the Inbox (move msg to @actions, create task, link).

Thanks,

John

I seem to also be a dummy, as I can’t seem to create an event from a task either. I am in the Project Center View, then select a task, then hit Ctrl-E. Nothing happens, though.

Perhaps I could do it through the :Scripts Menu” but I’m not that experienced of a user with scripts to find it.

Any suggestions is much appreciated.

Cheers!

Thanks for the comment! I’ll add this to my list for my next update.

I believe there are a couple of apps that do nothing but email list management (you might want to look on macupdate.com). I’m not sure if these are designed to work with Entourage… However, they should all work with Address Book and as of 2008, you can configure Entourage to sync its contacts with Address Book

Hope this helps!

Best,
-Adam

Can you add this ability to your scripts? I would love it.

Great work!

There is an addin to Outlook that my wife uses called “Send Personally”.
It allows her to send one email to several people with each recipients copy being addressed to them as if each email were sent individually. The only way that I have been able to figure out to do anything similar is to do a mail merge from Word and then send emails from there. This ends up with a look to my emails that is not desirable for my usage.

Do you know of a script that will accomplish the same results in Entourage?

Thanks again!
Michael

Calendar events from contacts… That sounds like a good idea. I’ll put this on my list for version 5!

I’ve actually had a couple people ask me about copying Category and Project properties from incoming messages. I think I might just write the customization code and then take Steve’s suggestion and go open source.

By-the-by, for those of you requesting archival solutions, persistence pays. I finally got a chance to sit down last weekend and hammer something out. To be posted… soon.

Adam

Finally, a reason to quietly put away Outlook for once and for all!!!

Excellent work on this, Adam. The Tasks to Events script absolutely hit the spot. This is really going to save me a great deal of time.

If you post a PayPal link for donations, let me know. It’s worth paying for. Kudos to you for making my day, my week, my year, Adam. For me, not being able to turn tasks into calendar events was a real sore point, since Outlook allowed me to do it with a simple drag-’n'-drop action - presto. Your solution is ingenious.

One minor suggestion: could you possibly create a variant of the “Create Event From Selection” script, where the category from the selected event (say, a task) gets automatically transferred to the new calendar event? That would complete my joy, Adam…