[MLO] suggestion: Shift-Drop from Outlook to MLO

[Dwight Arthur]

The linkage between MLO and Outlook is arguably the stongest link MLO has
to any other application. I frequently open my email inbox, delete the
stuff I don't care about, respond to every message that can be dealt with
in 30 seconds or so, and drag what's left into MLO. The messages dropped
into MLO are converted to tasks with the email subject as the task caption
and the email body as the task note. Attachments, inline graphics and rich
text are lost which is unfortunate but the top of the task note is an
automatically created link back to the email, One click on the link and the
email pops open in all of its illustrated rich-text glory. Everything I
want to accomplish happens in a single click or drag/drop, making this
efficient and easy to use. With one exception.

When you drop more than one message into MLO, a pop up window asks if you
want to create a separate task for each message, or a single task
comprising all of them. After the thousandth time you answer that question,
it gets old.

Suggestion: MLO should offer drag&drop - which creates a single task for
each message, or drag&shift/drop - which creates a single task combining
multiple messages.

What do you think?
-Dwight

[robert roszak]

I get "The operating system denied access to the specified file" when I
click the link MLO automatically has created on the top of note field of
the task. I guess it's my system's fault rather than MLO itself. What
setting should I change to get it working?

Robert

[Michael G.]

Dwight,
Do you know if there is anyway to do this without having to drag and drop?
i've been using a MS Surface Pro and like this feature that's easy to do
with a mouse and multiple windows open on a large screen. Couldn't find a
solution to do this without drag and drop which is difficult on a small
trouch screen.

Post by Dwight Arthur
The linkage between MLO and Outlook is arguably the stongest link MLO has
to any other application. I frequently open my email inbox, delete the
stuff I don't care about, respond to every message that can be dealt with
in 30 seconds or so, and drag what's left into MLO. The messages dropped
into MLO are converted to tasks with the email subject as the task caption
and the email body as the task note. Attachments, inline graphics and rich
text are lost which is unfortunate but the top of the task note is an
automatically created link back to the email, One click on the link and the
email pops open in all of its illustrated rich-text glory. Everything I
want to accomplish happens in a single click or drag/drop, making this
efficient and easy to use. With one exception.
When you drop more than one message into MLO, a pop up window asks if you
want to create a separate task for each message, or a single task
comprising all of them. After the thousandth time you answer that question,
it gets old.
Suggestion: MLO should offer drag&drop - which creates a single task for
each message, or drag&shift/drop - which creates a single task combining
multiple messages.
What do you think?
-Dwight

[Dwight Arthur]

Hi, Michael. No, I don’t know any way to do this without using drag&drop. I tried a few ideas but nothing worked.



I don’t know much about Windows 8 or later but I can tell you that drag&drop is still viable on a small screen showing only a single open window at a time on Windows 7. I won’t call it “easy” but it’s definitely do-able. Bring up MLO, and make sure that the folder where you want to put the new tasks is visible in the current view. Bring up Outlook (covering MLO. Select the messages for which you want to create tasks. With multiple messages highlighted, click-and drag on one of them in order to drag them all. Drag them to the taskbar and hover (without dropping) over the MLO icon in the taskbar. After hovering for a second or two, you will see MLO move to the foreground, covering Outlook. Still being careful not to drop the messages that you are dragging, drag them to the target folder in the MLO window, then drop them.



If you have the taskbar or some equivalent in Windows 8 you should be able to use this. -Dwight



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Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 8:24 PM
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Subject: [MLO] Re: suggestion: Shift-Drop from Outlook to MLO



Dwight,

Do you know if there is anyway to do this without having to drag and drop? i've been using a MS Surface Pro and like this feature that's easy to do with a mouse and multiple windows open on a large screen. Couldn't find a solution to do this without drag and drop which is difficult on a small trouch screen.

On Wednesday, November 19, 2014 12:29:39 AM UTC-5, Dwight Arthur wrote:

The linkage between MLO and Outlook is arguably the stongest link MLO has to any other application. I frequently open my email inbox, delete the stuff I don't care about, respond to every message that can be dealt with in 30 seconds or so, and drag what's left into MLO. The messages dropped into MLO are converted to tasks with the email subject as the task caption and the email body as the task note. Attachments, inline graphics and rich text are lost which is unfortunate but the top of the task note is an automatically created link back to the email, One click on the link and the email pops open in all of its illustrated rich-text glory. Everything I want to accomplish happens in a single click or drag/drop, making this efficient and easy to use. With one exception.



When you drop more than one message into MLO, a pop up window asks if you want to create a separate task for each message, or a single task comprising all of them. After the thousandth time you answer that question, it gets old.



Suggestion: MLO should offer drag&drop - which creates a single task for each message, or drag&shift/drop - which creates a single task combining multiple messages.



What do you think?

-Dwight
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[Michael G.]

Dwight,
Thanks for the tip, I'll try this and let you know how it works for me.

Regards-Michael G.

Post by Dwight Arthur
Hi, Michael. No, I don’t know any way to do this without using drag&drop.
I tried a few ideas but nothing worked.
I don’t know much about Windows 8 or later but I can tell you that
drag&drop is still viable on a small screen showing only a single open
window at a time on Windows 7. I won’t call it “easy” but it’s definitely
do-able. Bring up MLO, and make sure that the folder where you want to put
the new tasks is visible in the current view. Bring up Outlook (covering
MLO. Select the messages for which you want to create tasks. With multiple
messages highlighted, click-and drag on one of them in order to drag them
all. Drag them to the taskbar and hover (without dropping) over the MLO
icon in the taskbar. After hovering for a second or two, you will see MLO
move to the foreground, covering Outlook. Still being careful not to drop
the messages that you are dragging, drag them to the target folder in the
MLO window, then drop them.
If you have the taskbar or some equivalent in Windows 8 you should be able
to use this. -Dwight
*Sent:* Thursday, November 20, 2014 8:24 PM
*Subject:* [MLO] Re: suggestion: Shift-Drop from Outlook to MLO
Dwight,
Do you know if there is anyway to do this without having to drag and drop?
i've been using a MS Surface Pro and like this feature that's easy to do
with a mouse and multiple windows open on a large screen. Couldn't find a
solution to do this without drag and drop which is difficult on a small
trouch screen.
The linkage between MLO and Outlook is arguably the stongest link MLO has
to any other application. I frequently open my email inbox, delete the
stuff I don't care about, respond to every message that can be dealt with
in 30 seconds or so, and drag what's left into MLO. The messages dropped
into MLO are converted to tasks with the email subject as the task caption
and the email body as the task note. Attachments, inline graphics and rich
text are lost which is unfortunate but the top of the task note is an
automatically created link back to the email, One click on the link and the
email pops open in all of its illustrated rich-text glory. Everything I
want to accomplish happens in a single click or drag/drop, making this
efficient and easy to use. With one exception.
When you drop more than one message into MLO, a pop up window asks if you
want to create a separate task for each message, or a single task
comprising all of them. After the thousandth time you answer that question,
it gets old.
Suggestion: MLO should offer drag&drop - which creates a single task for
each message, or drag&shift/drop - which creates a single task combining
multiple messages.
What do you think?
-Dwight
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[Michael Ausbrook]

You can avoid the otherwise-necessary dragging Dwight quite accurately
describes by using alwasy-on-top (web site here
<http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/keep-window-always-on-top/5213/>;
direct download link here <http://img.labnol.org/di/always-on-top.zip>.)
It's just an Autohotkey script that toggles a window as always on top with
Ctrl-Space. It takes almost no ram and sits in the taskbar with a "DI"
icon. If you have an MLO window open but not maximized, you can keep it on
top while you drag directly from Outlook instead of having to do the
taskbar dance, which I tired of long ago.

Tuppence,

-Michael

Post by Dwight Arthur
Hi, Michael. No, I don’t know any way to do this without using drag&drop.
I tried a few ideas but nothing worked.
I don’t know much about Windows 8 or later but I can tell you that
drag&drop is still viable on a small screen showing only a single open
window at a time on Windows 7. I won’t call it “easy” but it’s definitely
do-able. Bring up MLO, and make sure that the folder where you want to put
the new tasks is visible in the current view. Bring up Outlook (covering
MLO. Select the messages for which you want to create tasks. With multiple
messages highlighted, click-and drag on one of them in order to drag them
all. Drag them to the taskbar and hover (without dropping) over the MLO
icon in the taskbar. After hovering for a second or two, you will see MLO
move to the foreground, covering Outlook. Still being careful not to drop
the messages that you are dragging, drag them to the target folder in the
MLO window, then drop them.
If you have the taskbar or some equivalent in Windows 8 you should be able
to use this. -Dwight
*Sent:* Thursday, November 20, 2014 8:24 PM
*Subject:* [MLO] Re: suggestion: Shift-Drop from Outlook to MLO
Dwight,
Do you know if there is anyway to do this without having to drag and drop?
i've been using a MS Surface Pro and like this feature that's easy to do
with a mouse and multiple windows open on a large screen. Couldn't find a
solution to do this without drag and drop which is difficult on a small
trouch screen.
The linkage between MLO and Outlook is arguably the stongest link MLO has
to any other application. I frequently open my email inbox, delete the
stuff I don't care about, respond to every message that can be dealt with
in 30 seconds or so, and drag what's left into MLO. The messages dropped
into MLO are converted to tasks with the email subject as the task caption
and the email body as the task note. Attachments, inline graphics and rich
text are lost which is unfortunate but the top of the task note is an
automatically created link back to the email, One click on the link and the
email pops open in all of its illustrated rich-text glory. Everything I
want to accomplish happens in a single click or drag/drop, making this
efficient and easy to use. With one exception.
When you drop more than one message into MLO, a pop up window asks if you
want to create a separate task for each message, or a single task
comprising all of them. After the thousandth time you answer that question,
it gets old.
Suggestion: MLO should offer drag&drop - which creates a single task for
each message, or drag&shift/drop - which creates a single task combining
multiple messages.
What do you think?
-Dwight
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[John Smith]

Strange - is there no way to forward your emails to a particular MLO email
address?

J

Post by Michael Ausbrook
You can avoid the otherwise-necessary dragging Dwight quite accurately
describes by using alwasy-on-top (web site here
<http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/keep-window-always-on-top/5213/>;
direct download link here <http://img.labnol.org/di/always-on-top.zip>.)
It's just an Autohotkey script that toggles a window as always on top with
Ctrl-Space. It takes almost no ram and sits in the taskbar with a "DI"
icon. If you have an MLO window open but not maximized, you can keep it on
top while you drag directly from Outlook instead of having to do the
taskbar dance, which I tired of long ago.
Tuppence,
-Michael

Post by Dwight Arthur
Hi, Michael. No, I don’t know any way to do this without using drag&drop.
I tried a few ideas but nothing worked.
I don’t know much about Windows 8 or later but I can tell you that
drag&drop is still viable on a small screen showing only a single open
window at a time on Windows 7. I won’t call it “easy” but it’s definitely
do-able. Bring up MLO, and make sure that the folder where you want to put
the new tasks is visible in the current view. Bring up Outlook (covering
MLO. Select the messages for which you want to create tasks. With multiple
messages highlighted, click-and drag on one of them in order to drag them
all. Drag them to the taskbar and hover (without dropping) over the MLO
icon in the taskbar. After hovering for a second or two, you will see MLO
move to the foreground, covering Outlook. Still being careful not to drop
the messages that you are dragging, drag them to the target folder in the
MLO window, then drop them.
If you have the taskbar or some equivalent in Windows 8 you should be
able to use this. -Dwight
*Sent:* Thursday, November 20, 2014 8:24 PM
*Subject:* [MLO] Re: suggestion: Shift-Drop from Outlook to MLO
Dwight,
Do you know if there is anyway to do this without having to drag and
drop? i've been using a MS Surface Pro and like this feature that's easy to
do with a mouse and multiple windows open on a large screen. Couldn't find
a solution to do this without drag and drop which is difficult on a small
trouch screen.
The linkage between MLO and Outlook is arguably the stongest link MLO has
to any other application. I frequently open my email inbox, delete the
stuff I don't care about, respond to every message that can be dealt with
in 30 seconds or so, and drag what's left into MLO. The messages dropped
into MLO are converted to tasks with the email subject as the task caption
and the email body as the task note. Attachments, inline graphics and rich
text are lost which is unfortunate but the top of the task note is an
automatically created link back to the email, One click on the link and the
email pops open in all of its illustrated rich-text glory. Everything I
want to accomplish happens in a single click or drag/drop, making this
efficient and easy to use. With one exception.
When you drop more than one message into MLO, a pop up window asks if you
want to create a separate task for each message, or a single task
comprising all of them. After the thousandth time you answer that question,
it gets old.
Suggestion: MLO should offer drag&drop - which creates a single task for
each message, or drag&shift/drop - which creates a single task combining
multiple messages.
What do you think?
-Dwight
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[Henk Walraven]

Yes, this possible.

In your cloud account, you can find the option 'task by email'.

When your forward your mail to that address, then will appear in your MLO Inbox.

[John Smith]

Got it - thanks

J

Post by Henk Walraven
Yes, this possible.
In your cloud account, you can find the option 'task by email'.
When your forward your mail to that address, then will appear in your MLO Inbox.