(* Script to grab the sender and subject of the selected Mail message(s), and create new next action(s) with description "Email [sender] about [subject]" If you have Growl, it pops a notification up with the id of the newly created action. *) (* Edit appropriately for your setup *) property myUsername : "<%= current_user.login %>" property myToken : "<%= current_user.token %>" property myContextID : <%= context.id %> (* <%= context.name %> *) -- this string is used when the message subject is empty property emptySubject : "No Subject Specified" -- Get the selected email in Mail tell application "Mail" set theSelection to the selection if the length of theSelection is less than 1 then display dialog "One or more messages must be selected." buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon caution else repeat with theMessage in theSelection my importMessage(theMessage) end repeat end if end tell on importMessage(theMessage) -- Get the info from the email message tell application "Mail" try set theSender to the sender of theMessage set theSubject to subject of theMessage if theSubject is equal to "" then set theSubject to emptySubject -- Construct the description string from the email info set myDesc to "Email " & theSender & " about " & theSubject -- Trim the string to 100 characters otherwise it won't validate if length of myDesc > 100 then set myDesc to characters 1 thru 100 of myDesc end if end try end tell -- Now send all that info to Tracks -- Edit the URL of your Tracks installation if necessary" tell application "<%= home_url %>backend/api" set returnValue to call xmlrpc {method name:"NewTodo", parameters:{myUsername, myToken, myContextID, myDesc}} end tell (* Growl support - comment out or delete this section if you don't have Growl *) tell application "GrowlHelperApp" set the allNotificationsList to ¬ {"Tracks Notification"} -- Make a list of the notifications -- that will be enabled by default. -- Those not enabled by default can be enabled later -- in the 'Applications' tab of the growl prefpane. set the enabledNotificationsList to ¬ {"Tracks Notification"} -- Register our script with growl. -- You can optionally (as here) set a default icon -- for this script's notifications. register as application ¬ "Tracks Applescript" all notifications allNotificationsList ¬ default notifications enabledNotificationsList ¬ icon of application "Script Editor" set growlDescription to "Action with ID " & returnValue & " was created." notify with name "Tracks Notification" title "New action sent to Tracks" description growlDescription application name "Tracks Applescript" icon of application "Script Editor.app" end tell (* End of Growl section *) end importMessage