So this would be instead of my practice of cutting and pasting the text of email messages into tasks in Things.
I'll give it a try! Thanks for the explanation. — doug *Douglass T. Davidoff Arlington/Cambridge, Massachusetts USA Mobile: +1.617.955.7520* [email protected] My Blog <http://www.douglassdavidoff.com> | LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/dougdavidoff>| Photo Gallery <http://gallery.me.com/douglass.davidoff> | Bookmarks<http://delicious.com/indydoug> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Tim Lahey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Douglass Davidoff < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> This is a feature of OSX that I've never understood. It seems really >> useful, but I've never been able to figure out how to work it. >> >> The graphic in Ruben's instructions for Mailplane v2.2 goes a long way to >> increasing my understand, but I still don't get it. >> >> Could you tell me the purpose of this trick? And then, at a most >> elementary level, the step-by-step instructions to using it? What happens >> when I'm done? What have I achieved? >> >> > The basic instruction is to click and drag on the Mailplane icon in the > title bar. You'll get a file that's a link to the message. Double clicking > it opens Mailplane with that message open. > > It's handy for those times you want a link to a mail message in another > program. If it accepts > attachments, you're good to go. Examples would be a task in a task manager > or an order > e-mail in a financial program. > > Hope that helps. > > Cheers, > > Tim. > > --- > Tim Lahey > PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering > University of Waterloo > http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mailplaneapp" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<mailplaneapp%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp?hl=en.
