Hi,
Even though I’ve been using DT for a while now, I still consider myself a new user and am learning new things just about every day. One aspect that has been frustrating me for a while though is having an easy way to import messages from Apple Mail. I understand that recent changes in Apple Mail have impacted the old DT plugin which used to work brilliantly and that a work-around is to install AppleScripts and activate the Script menu. For the most part, this seems to work pretty well, but as I am often importing Email, I’m wondering if there’s some way to bind this to a single keystroke? Also, I never use AppleScript for anything outside of this one particular function, so it admittedly frustrates me a bit to always have a menu in the dock that I really only need in Mail. Of course there’s always the possibility that a new extension has been developed and or that there’s another way to import mail in which case I’d love to know about it.
Thanks for any help with this, I really love DT and am just trying to make it easier for me to use.
Thanks @cgrunenberg. I’ll have to give some thought to how to incorporate this into my workflow. Unfortunately, as a VoiceOver user, drag and drop isn’t really a viable option for me and Apple Mail doesn’t let me use cmd+c to copy a message. Maybe I create an “Import to DT” folder and add a rule that anything there triggers the import script, or something along those lines. A colleague of mine told me of another product that is able to import mail with one keystroke, so I was hoping this signaled some sort of change from Apple’s side.
There is another way. When selecting the email message you want to save, press Command Shift S and set your Devonthink Inbox folder in Finder as the save to destination as your Finder InBox - not quite what we had, but ok for now…
@BLUEFROG The other app is EagleFiler: EagleFiler: Document Organizer and Mail Archiver for Mac . Their “quick capture key” allows individual messages, selected messages, or entire mailboxes to be imported from Apple Mail. I have no idea how they’re doing this, but my colleague mentioned it to me knowing I have missed this ability ever since upgrading to Sonoma.
Just for others who stumble across this discussion, I’m going to mention the mbox export/import method. I never have to worry about AppleScript or plug-in changes using this technique, which both Mail and DevonThink handle smoothly. Search this forum for threads about it.
Yep exactly. If I could somehow make a hotkey trigger that script, I think I’d have everything just about the way I want it. I know almost nothing about AppleScript, but will check if maybe there’s a 3RD party utility that can do this for me.
Thanks so much, I’m definitely going to check out Keyboard Maestro right now. In a way, helping me solve this problem may have helped me to solve a few other unrelated problems given what Keyboard Maestro can do.
Not sure what the best solution is… I am using the global script to add mailbox … it is painfully slow… i wish there was a way to just keep adding to a devonthink db for my email … and not duplicate emails if you keep adding emails, assuming you arent careful when updating that dbase.