Acquiring outlook link sent to todoist

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…

You could probably use IFTTT. When a new item is created in Todoist, send an email to Things.

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).

Lucky you to get this working! Our admin disabled any addins and they refuse to understand why Microsoft ToDo can’t be used instead of Things

Also worth adding that Legacy Outlook is still an option for paid O365 users and that supports Hookmarks still.