Send selected emails (Mail / Outlook 2016) to TaskPaper 3

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That looks right – i’ll try to investigate at the weekend.

Any error messages ?

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Thank you for the response.

There was an error about an unexpected end of script. I copied and pasted the last version here, and that error went away. I suspect that I accidentally deleted the last line of the script when I was experimenting with removing the Outlook parts.

Now I am getting an error of "null."

null.png722×160 18 KB

Nothing is placed into TaskPaper.

Ideas?

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Checking in. Any thoughts?

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Just finally taking a look now – do you find that the script works stand-alone if you launch it from the Mail script icon ?

(it does here)

I think the problem may be in the script’s expectation that Mail is the active document when you launch the script. Are you launching from KM ? LaunchBar ?

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Also working for me here from a KM macro folder restricted to Mail

and attached to a keystroke and packaged like this:

Send links to selected email(s) to active TaskPaper 3 document.kmmacros (25.8 KB)

Could you tell me more about the context in which it isn't finding Mail as the front app ?

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I'm downloaded it and installed it, and it is working now. It might be the KM macro folder that you put it on.

Thank you @ComplexPoint !

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Does anyone know how to modify this for Mailmate?

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At first glance, it doesn't look as if MailMate's scripting API exposes the selection in the front window ...

Has anyone found a way of deriving a selection list from a MailMate window ?

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I think this is the material that one would need to dive into:

https://github.com/mailmate/mailmate_manual/wiki/Bundles

Execution mode > multiple messages

Not a MailMate user myself, but it looks rewarding for those that are.

PS (Might be simpler to use KM to automate use of the MailMate menu's Edit > Copy As Link )

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I have also faced a similar problem with my outlook account. When I was sending the emails to my boss, at that time, I got a little notification which is outlook error 0x800ccc0e gmail.For that reason, I was unable to send the emails to taskpaper3.

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I would love to use this as a jumping off point to send emails from Outlook 2016/365 directly into DEVONthink3 (including placing an outlook:// link to the original in the DT3 metadata). Does anyone have any suggestions on where to start with this script to integrate with DT3?