#OMNIFOCUS TUTORIAL HOW TO#

#OMNIFOCUS TUTORIAL HOW TO#

Send should be used when the service doesn't know how to process. Services can then do the right thing with regards to images as attachments, for instance. Send As Attachment is usually the best way to go since you're forwarding the original email. Next, you need to specify how the message should be sent. Best of all, you can send content to the service in the background, without having to open up a compose window.Ĭlick the New button, and enter a descriptive Name, email address, and tags you wish to add to the beginning or end of the subject line.īy adding :: to the descriptive Name, you can organize your Quick Post actions into sub-menus, for example, Evernote::Work will create a sub-entry of “Work” under Evernote. Quick Post enables you to quickly setup and use send-to-service email addresses, and automatically add the appropriate tags to the beginning or end of the subject line. Set Postbox as your default email client (if it is not already) Advanced > Quick Post.

To set up Postbox to use Things, follow these steps in order: Now let’s take a look at how to use Postbox with Things. This is a quick way to choose the important content of the message and avoiding the need to edit later. If text within a message is selected or highlighted, only that text will be included in the body of the note when it's sent to Evernote. To use the right-click context menu, click within the message itself or select some text, right-click, and select Add to Evernote from the contextual menu. If you don’t see the Evernote button, make sure Evernote is installed in your Applications folder. Once you’ve added the Evernote button to the toolbar, simply select the message you wish to send to Evernote, and click the toolbar button. To use the Evernote toolbar button, it first needs to be added to the toolbar. There are two ways to create a note in Evernote from a message in Postbox: clicking the toolbar button, or using the right-click context menu. This is a huge win for your productivity. Plus, a link back to the original message in Postbox if you want to go straight to it from Evernote. The Body (entire message or just the selected text), When you send a message to Evernote, Postbox includes: This is the perfect type of message to send to Evernote. Let’s say you receive a message that you want to hang on to because it has some specific information you’ll need later, but you can’t do anything with it right now. And thanks to the integrations with popular productivity apps like Evernote, Things, and OmniFocus, Postbox makes this easy.

A much better approach is to put that message into another application which is designed for handling it correctly, like a task manager. But the problem with this approach is that next time you open your email client you have to look at and analyze that message again to decide if you really need to do something with it right now. In this instance, the default action is usually to leave the message in their inbox to deal with it later. One of the problems many people have with email is that they receive messages which require them to do something but they don’t want to do it right now.

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