I created a shortcut to help with this, and I’ve been meaning to write it up here for a while. As David and Rosemary noted in their discussion, capturing tasks via email is easy, but capturing tasks in the context of a message-whether that message comes via SMS, iMessage, Slack, Discord, Facebook, etc.-is not as easy. There’s a lot of good information in it, including lots of helpful automation tips and best practices for getting ideas out of your head before they evaporate. Capturing Tasks from MessagesĪ recent episode of the Automators podcast ( episode 71, to be exact) explored the various ways to capture information (tasks, events, reference notes, etc.), one of the central pillars of GTD. If you use Craft and have run into this problem, feel free to download my shortcut. It’s simpler than it sounds, and as long as the main shortcut passes a properly constructed Craft URL to this subroutine, it works well. What I have done is constructed a subroutine that will accept a Craft URL, run the URL to create the note, process the information returned by Craft to recreate that note’s link, and then pass that link back to the main shortcut. Its URL scheme provides complementary functionality, and it allows me to solve this problem. Thankfully, Shortcuts actions are not the only way to automate Craft. It seemed like there had to be a way to accomplish this, but for several weeks I couldn’t find the answer. (In fact, Craft’s Shortcuts actions always open the app, even if you toggle off the Show When Run option, which should force it to run in the background.) I have several shortcuts that I use to generate notes, but then I want to use the link to the newly created note in a later step in the shortcut (e.g., adding a follow-up task to Things with the Craft link in the Notes field). It’s excellent overall, but one of its shortcomings is that when you create a new note using Shortcuts, it doesn’t return the link to that note. Over the past few months, I’ve been using Craft as my primary note-taking app.
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