Spark will create a link back to Omnifocus. I assume other email programs will as well.
Does anyone know if/how we can add a link back to an email to pre-existing reminders? Thanks
This is amazing. Any pointers as to how to get started using this?
Hi,
Do you use Keyboard Maestro? I could send you my macros for processing mail, otherwise you could create a QuickAction or run the script from the script folder and use the Applescript Menu
Here is the latest version of the Applescript, you may also want this Shortcut which I use to add Tags to particualr Reminders.
Any questions please ask.
Hello @logic2design,
Thank you for the script. My preference would be to run the script from Alfred 5 with a hotkey but I couldn’t get it to work. I did get it working in KM. Any idea on why the script wouldn’t work in Alfred?
Loren
Alfred does not like the Handler in the Applescript.
You can get it working by calling the the script externally to Alfred
In Alfred create a Run Script Workflow, using /bin/bash.
Right Click on the Workflow and select Open In Finder, copy the Applescript to the Folder ( I called it Reminder)
Enter the following;
query="{query}"
osascript ./Reminder.scpt
echo -n $query
You now will be able to call the Applescript via Alfred.
Any issues let me know
Iain
Thank you for the help Iain. That worked. Have a great day.
I just signed up to say thanks! 
DRAG & DROP INTO REMINDERS!! I did this by accident and then had to figure out how I did it!! LOL. Have your mac email and reminders app side by side, with the list you want to add it to open. (It doesn’t work dropping it on top of the unopened list, I tried.) Simply CLICK + HOLD JUST TO THE RIGHT OF THE SUBJECT LINE. It won’t look like anything happened until you start DRAGGING it … then you’ll see your cursor is actually a hand holding a piece of mail. Then drag it into a list. Bam! It adds the item subject line to the list and there is a little email icon to the far right. Click it, and there is your email as a freestanding pop-out.
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I’ve actually been using this functionality for a while now. The difficulty, however, that I have run into is that the mail link in Reminders doesn’t always carry over from device to device or if the email is moved. This must be a bug in the system. It is a frustrating one, but I’ve learned to work around it.
AFAIK Mail.app does not reindex any folder, except INBOX, automatically. This may be the reason Reminders does not know when a message has been moved. Have you tried moving a message before linking it to Reminders to see if helps?
Same. This was the method I spent months trying to find. If I drag and drop an email (no matter if it’s on the Mac, iPad or iPhone) I get a link back to the original email. And that link works even after I’ve moved the message to a different folder.
It works in Reminders, it works in Notes, it works in NotePlan and Agenda and…
Drag and drop. (You need to make sure it’s only one message and not a thread of messages btw.)
Yes, and that does help. As I’ve previously posted, this is one of the flies in the ointment of my task management system, which relies on Reminders.
Here is an example: I send or reply to an email that needs to be converted to a follow-up task. Because I cannot bcc the email to Reminders and because, as you point out, the Mai app does not reindex folders, I must go to the Sent folder and share the email with Reminders to get a reasonably reliable link. The other issue is that sometimes, even when I do this, the link is broken if I try to use it on another device.
This should not be the situation. I’ve found that most other apps (including Apple Notes, handle links more or less seamlessly.
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