Let’s begin by briefly looking over the default capturing schemes on the app to help answer the question: “ W hy is sending email and file attachments to a task management system important?”
How to send email and file attachments ( like a PDF) to the app’s trusty bucket - the inbox.Īn important task that can be done much easier on the Mac version of this app, but not at all impossible while working mobile on the iPad.This essential topic is geared to show users of this iOS productivity app. So, in this post I’ll be sharing the four capturing workflows I use for getting stuff from iOS Mail - to OmniFocus for iPad. For some time now I’ve been wanting to write a post about “how I use OmniFocus for iPad in an iPad-only routine.” It’s not possible to get a link back to the original message, but it’s still outrageously helpful.OmniFocus for iPad is the task management app that continues to be one of my top picks in the iOS productivity category. The server takes the subject and body, puts them in an action, and wedges it right in to the database in your Sync Server account. Mail Drop is simple: forward on or create new emails that you’d like to show up in your OmniFocus Inbox to a specific email address. The Omni Sync Server has a very helpful feature: Mail Drop. Includes a link back to the original message. And clipping is simple: Control-click a message and choose Send to OmniFocus. There are so many features in the last three clients that naming would be futile, but Postbox adds a few more. Postbox.appĪnd to round out the OS X mail clients, meet Postbox. But it’s really simple: simply control-click a message and choose Create OmniFocus Task. You can read all about it in Airmail’s support article. Similar to MailMate, AirMail has its own integration with OmniFocus that works great. And it clips to OmniFocus 2 quite nicely here’s how. Mailplane is a Gmail- (or Google Apps) specific app that combines the native web experience with OS X niceties. Hitting a keystroke with the latest version (MailMate is progressing towards 2.0, and beta builds are available for download) pops up a pre-filled Quick Entry window with an action title and note. It’s advanced, and the developer has built-in support for many different apps: both text-editors and task managers.
MailMate is a keyboard-centric, markdown-supporting, super-smart client for OS X. Make sure to have a Clippings Shortcut set up. In macOS 10.14, Mojave, Clip-O-Tron isn’t needed.
In some earlier versions of macOS, a helper app ( Clip-O-Tron) was needed to help with the process. The email client bundled with OS X is able to send over the whole message - it even links back to the original message. Triaging email into OmniFocus can be quick and easy, and that’s what we’re going to accomplish here with helper tools. Someone came up with a really good idea a long while ago: processing email into actions-and consolidating all your actions into just one inbox-can bring about piece of mind. Let’s just get this out of the way - email is required for work (and usually personal) life, and a lot of the time it comes with actionable items. Email is a necessary component of any todo app