I just got back from a meditation retreat and I’m swamped with emails to process.
I just tried using Hook with my email app (Apple Mail) and main note taking app (Sublime Text) and it works really well.
I’m missing iOS support only partly because I mostly need this for my work and I do most of my work on a laptop. Just in case I need to refer to something on iOS, I can probably share the folder of Sublime Text note files with Dropbox (symlinks?) to access with 1Writer on iOS.
The bigger missing feature is indicating that this email now has a note attached. The only option I can think of is to be develop an Alfred workflow that does the following:
- Somehow flag the item, probably by moving to a specific folder.
- Open hook and automatically create the Sublime Text note if one doesn’t exist, else open it.
This broadly seems okay, and would also give me a clue on iOS that there’s an available note.
I’m not sure how to process deleting unneeded notes. I already have an Alfred workflow for Apple Mail that removes flags and archives the item. I could probably add a detail there to delete (or otherwise indicate that the note has been “used” in case I need to refer to it later) the Hook note in Sublime Text.