Create Outlook tasks from any program

Those who spend the allotted time in the corporate environment, almost certainly familiar with Outlook and letters, such as Minutes of meeting and others. I myself have set up my process of working with all incoming information is to Outlook, however, often a letter is a set of tasks that somehow do not want to register manually. Instead of turning it into Outlook tasks, they are easy to lose and miss, I do not re-read the letter again and again - we remember the GTD.

In fact, you can create a problem not only from the text of the letter, but also from any program with the help of easy hand movements: Drag'n'Drop in a folder with the tasks or simply the task button will work.

However, there are both pluses and minuses. For example - "abandoned" the text you fall into the memo field, and the title, that is what you are and you will see the list of tasks you need to dial manually. This can be handy if you drop the text with references, for example, you will receive additional information on the task at hand. And sometimes, that's exactly what you need.

But I often need to get a simple point in the letter from the enumeration would have turned into the same header letters, leaving me the right or set the date and the mark, or simply just save the record and close the window.

To do this quickly, as usual, I tried to organize a hot key to this action. And it was not difficult: I just added to your script Autohotkey few simple lines:

;
; Windows + t turns selected text into Task in Outlook
;
#t ::
oldClipboard: = ClipboardAll
clipboard =
Send ^ c
ClipWait, 0.8
WinActivate ahk_class rctrl_renwnd32
WinWaitActive ahk_class rctrl_renwnd32
SendEvent ^ + k
WinWait Untitled - Task
SendEvent ^ v
Clipboard: = oldClipboard
return

If you are familiar with the "language" of the script, you will realize that it is not limited to Outlook. No, the Outlook is a repository of tasks, but the text itself, you can select anywhere.

In fact the algorithm of allocation of tasks from any of the text will be:

• highlight the text with your mouse
• press the "hot" combination
• edit task settings in the window that appears, or just ...
• save and close the task edit window

Voila, your action item is created. It remained a trifle - to implement it in life.