Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Managing email, Evernote, and Remember The Milk all at once
We’ve been pretty excited about the Evernote integration we recently announced, especially how many ways we’ve heard about people using it. This week’s tip, shared by ganzee, shows a neat way to use Evernote’s email feature in addition to Remember The Milk’s integration to add a note and task simultaneously while going through email.
Did you know that you can email actionable items to Evernote and have them automagically appear in Remember The Milk?
Follow the instructions on the Remember The Milk blog to integrate your Evernote and Remember The Milk accounts.
Now things get really clever….
When you get an email that needs action on a later date you simply send the mail with attachments to your Evernote email address. If you add a due date to the end of the subject line in the following format – !YYYY/MM/DD – a reminder will be created in Evernote. This will automatically create a new task in your Remember The Milk inbox with the due date specified.
So far so good….
But what if you have something for which the due date has not yet been set? Up til now, you could copy the specific Evernote note url to the task url in Remember The Milk. Whilst this works, it is time-consuming, and essentially a manual hack.
All of this has now changed…
When you email an actionable item to Evernote for which the due is not yet known or agreed, simply omit the YYYY/MM/DD element from the !YYYY/MM/DD described above. For example: a subject line of ’Review new eBook !’ will create a note in Evernote with a reminder and an associated task in Remember The Milk.
By adopting this approach, my Weekly Review was both fun and immense in equal measure. Having all of my support materials from Evernote linked to Remember The Milk made the whole process a breeze. What’s more, I can do this all on web or mobile platforms (Windows will eventually give another option). I love how I can click through from Remember The Milk and open the Evernote note. By no longer having to use the url hack, this just ‘feels right’.
Thanks for sharing this tip, ganzee! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.
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