I work in an Office 365 environment, and after giving Apple Mail a valiant try for a year or two, I am surrendering to using (New) Outlook for Mac for my Office 365 mail. But I miss being able to link to an Apple Mail directly in Reminders or Things. New Outlook does not allow creating links directly. But, there is a Todoist add-in (which I have installed), which will send an Outlook mail to Todoist. When I do that, I can go to the task in todoist, right click the link, and voila – I can paste that same link back into Things and it works.
I am wondering if there is some clever or creative way folks can conceive that would let me leverage this functionality by automation and get/use the link back in Things (besides doing it manually as described above)??
P.S. I know about “Mail to Things,” which might be just as good. Just exploring all options…
If you are flexible to check other client than Outlook, I recommend you to try Spark. It has native linking to Things app.
I use Spark Classic and it works extremely well with things app, specially “Things Helper” utility. Though my account is with Google Workspace, so I can’t comment on how spark works with Office 365 environment
Based on my experience trying to do a similar thing but on Windows and with Outlook 2016, I’d advise caution with Outlooks message links. They’re are quite brittle. If you get the message link/ID, but then move the message to a different folder after that, the link breaks. Outlook doesn’t persist the same ID for some reason. I had to write a whole VBA macro to move my email to the archive folder first and then grab the ID just so I could paste links into Obsidian. It’s barbaric!!!
Caveats again, this is Outlook 2016 on Windows. So it might work differently on the Mac, but I just wanted to share what might be relevant experience.
It seems like the link-moving thing has been fixed on the Mac side. So, I don’t have to do a macro to archive it first thankfully, but I DID write one in Keyboard Maestro to trigger the Outlook add-in, open the item in Todoist, copy the link, and create a Things to-do with the outlook web link pasted in the notes. A little wonky – but the end result is I use Outlook and can still save links to Outlook items in Things (via Todoist).