[mawise]

I remember trying out Getting Things Done, really liking the idea, and then finding out I had only crappy ways to reference an email from my "todo list". Enough of my "work" is "respond to this email" that I've never been able to escape my inbox as one of my todo lists.

Any ideas on how to build task planning that lets me include link directly to an email?

[mattcrail]

Yeah - I know that problem well.

We have a Gmail integration where you can star an email, and then it syncs to Taskable as a task (and links back to the original email). Once checked off, it also archives the gmail message.

That way you can star things that require follow up, and get to them later, and archive the rest.

We have a lot more to build on the email side of things - such as surfacing important emails for you, or even being able to respond quickly to emails right from Taskable so you go to your inbox less, where you can get sucked down rabbit holes very easily.

[goplayoutside]

I don't see Fastmail on your roadmap. Do you intend to eventually support Fastmail?

As I'm sure you're aware, lots of us have migrated away from GMail.

[hesk]

I guess that my setup is extremely tailored to my needs but it requires very little setup so here it goes.

I use Emacs Org-Mode for my todo lists and the default macOS Mail.app for email. On a Mac, Org-Mode has a tool that grabs the currently selected email and inserts a link to the message id into the Org buffer. Clicking on that link opens the message in Mail.app.

I try to clean out my email inbox every evening. I track emails that need additional work in Org-Mode and immediately move them to the email archive after I created the link.

[tgdnt]

Common problem, I think. I wrote an Outlook macro that saves the email message to a folder and puts the link to it in the clipboard, then I just paste it into Vimwiki. That way in the mail application I can archive it, delete it, whatever. Works well also for those messages you want to save for some vague reason but have no related action item right now.

[tomjen3]

Sell your soul to the ghost of Steve Jobs.

In mail, select some of the text of the email, then share to reminders. This creates a reminder with the selected text and a link to the email. This also works in iOS.

[mcovalt]

You can also drag an email from Mail to Reminders. I drag email from Mail and links from Safari into Reminders all the time.

[dmarble]

Check out Legend (formerly moo.do): https://legendapp.com/

Found it several years ago and used it regularly for a while. It has a nice mixed model for blending calendar, email, lists, tasks. Lots of drag and drop capability, keyboard shortcuts. Loads fast. Mobile app. Customizable views you can quickly switch between, e.g. 3 column email on left, tasks in the middle, calendar on the right.

[chrisweekly]

Maybe search for Tiago Forte's "PARA" system and "one-touch inbox"; his workflows might not be precisely what you described ("task planning that lets me include link directly to an email") but I bet you'd find inspiration to facilitate your "escape". Good luck!

[LightG]

Google actually nailed feature this with their Tasks feature in Gmail ("Add Email to Tasks") ... but the rest of the task application is so basic and ridiculously underdeveloped that there's no point even going there.

Google, your Tasks app is cr@p ...

[jbjbjbjb]

You can do this in Outlook, just create a task and drop the email in as an attachment. Or just flag the email.