Hello!
Im looking into the best way to create reminders from emails that meet certain criteria, and marks as done when replied to. The first part I managed. The hard part is to have a good system that marks reminders as done when I have replied to an email. Apple mail dosnt handle any rules for “has been replied to”. Ive been looking into MailMate, which has a lot more complex rules, and also built in support for things 3.
But when it comes to marking reminders as done it becomes a lot harder, since you cant just add an applescript to mailmate. You have to make a whole custom bundle.
What I managed now:
Apple script that creates reminders in things 3 list, including emailid link in Apple Mail, or using built in support for things 3 in Mailmate.
Only way i managed to mark reminders as done was with Shortcuts.app
Shortcut that searches for mailid in things 3 and marks as done.
Created a custom button with floating menus in better touch tools, that stays on top of “reply” button. The button send CMD+R to open reply window and starts the shortcut.
My system feels a bit half baked. And I cant be the only person who drowns in mail and easaliy forgets about answering them?
Is there any one here who has a good system for it?