Great idea. Would be *hugely* helpful. I've used the application Zoot before that used to integrate well with outlook, and provided advanced text operations that I used to automatically attach categories/contexts to the messages. David's idea could open up this possibility.
On Aug 19, 7:58 pm, David Jade <[email protected]> wrote: > What I'd really like to see is a COM API for MLO that could be used to > programatically insert a task into the MLO inbox. This way an Outlook > add-in could be written (which I'd gladly write) where you could click > one button in Outlook and both flag a message and have it sent to MLO > along with the "outlook:" message hyperlink. You could also link the > Oulook message back to a MLO task (i.e. attaching a mlo:// task url to > the message) so you could bring up the task from within Outlook as > well. Furthermore, with a rich enough API this add-in could also track > flagged mail items and update the tasks in MLO when messages are > replied to, deleted, or moved (i.e. when OLID's change), etc... > > None of this is really possible without an API for MLO, especially the > task/OLID tracking as that requires both retrieving task data from MLO > and updating exsiting MLO tasks. At one time I did some of this in a > Outlook macro using automation (I also wrote the above OLID code, btw) > but it is severely crippled without a MLO COM API that allows for > creating new tasks and updating existing tasks. > > I've suggested this as a feature some time ago but I've never heard > any mention of whether it was being considered. Hopefully it will > someday... > > david --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" 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/mylifeorganized?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
