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10.5: Use To Dos in Mail to add notes to messages
Authored by: mozart111 on Nov 14, '07 05:18:13PM

Here's what I don't get about todo or note?

They don't reference back or open the email made for. It's worthless in my opinion.

I want to make a todo or note, click on it and then see the email.

In Tiger all I did was Flag an email. Made a Smart Folder named Todo and it collected the flag messages.

And when you double click on a note or todo in Leopard, nothing happens. I expected a double click to get the linked email.



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10.5: Use To Dos in Mail to add notes to messages
Authored by: mpaul30 on Nov 14, '07 07:35:55PM

"And when you double click on a note or todo in Leopard, nothing happens. I expected a double click to get the linked email."

Actually, if you use the hint outlined above, the todo is linked to the email. In the ToDo list, there is a small right arrow just to the left of the Due Date that when clicked brings up the email and the todo text. In iCal, Get Info on a todo includes a URL which will open the email that generated the todo.



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10.5: Use To Dos in Mail to add notes to messages
Authored by: Wodgy on Nov 14, '07 07:52:54PM
Todos created on mail messages do reference back to the original email... or they should anyway. You can go into iCal, double-click the todo, then choose "Show in Mail", and Mail pops up showing the original email message the todo is attached to, with the todo shown just above the message in a yellow slice of a legal pad. It's one of the fantastic features of Leopard mail.

The tricky thing you may not notice is that this linking doesn't work if you just press the Todo button to create the todo. You have to select some text in the email message, *then* press the Todo button. Otherwise no link to the original email gets created. Try it, you'll love this feature once you figure out how it works.

Note: there seems to be a bug right now with creating todos on messages stored on IMAP servers. You can try to create a todo on an email message, and it gets created, but when you try to assign a calendar your list of calendars is empty. This is one of the bugs that's supposed to be fixed in the first point release. Anyway, for testing purposes, try adding todos on mail messages stored "On My Mac" first.

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10.5: Use To Dos in Mail to add notes to messages
Authored by: Wodgy on Nov 14, '07 07:58:19PM

Oh, my mistake... it's not a bug... iCal stores a separate list of calendars for each IMAP server. This probably dovetails nicely with CalDAV, but I can see how it might confuse inexperienced users (like me :) ). Just play around with todos on messages "On My Mac" and in POP folders to get started with the mail linking feature.



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