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Auto Creating Reminders from Email Messages

In my constant state of trying to make things a bit more efficient for myself. (I’m a big believer in automation, ask anyone that has ever worked with me.) We have computers! Make the computers do work instead of us manually doing things on the computer.  

I wanted to find a way to auto-create a reminder from an email. I assume you can figure out how to create a rule to match an email in Mail.app, but one of the actions you can take on a mail rule is “Run AppleScript”.
This AppleScript, given the email match, will create a reminder that links back to the email for you:

using terms from application “Mail”

    on perform mail action with messages selectedMessages

        try

            log “Starting script execution”

            tell application “Reminders”

                repeat with theMessage in selectedMessages

                    try

                        tell application “Mail”

                            — Fetch subject and message ID

                            set emailSubject to subject of theMessage

                            set messageID to message id of theMessage

                            

                            — Mark email as read

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