Add tasks to Things with Siri

You can add reminders to Siri that get transferred to you Things inbox, and the reminder is then removed from reminders. It is fantastic and works perfectly! It describes it here http://support.culturedcode.com/customer/portal/articles/183236-using-siri-with-things on the Cultured Code website but does not describe how to turn it on and use it! Well here is how you can do it;

1) Create a list in Reminders called "Things" or whatever you would prefer
2) In Things on your iPhone, under preferences, go to "Reminders & Siri"
3) Choose to "Show Reminders" and choose the "Things" list from earlier
4) Now word your reminder to Siri as "Add [item] to my [listname] list" which would be something like "Add bake a cake to my Things list"
5) This will add the reminder in Reminders, it will go into the Things inbox and delete it from reminders. You can then go into Things inbox and choose to import the reminder or move it to a project

Fix AppleScript to create new tasks in Things

This fixes the problems highlighted here https://culturedcode.com/forums/read.php?7,59076 on the cultured code forum.

By making a series of changes to the script provided here https://culturedcode.com/things/wiki/index.php/AppleScript:Create_new_tasks_from_Mail_messages,_adding_Growl_notification using the code changes suggested here http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1416945 gives a script which creates a new Task when you receive a message with the title "Add to things" - you need to set a rule that runs the script on receiving a message with that as a title. It then creates a task in things with the task name the same as the description, so make the message body short!

using terms from application "Mail"

on perform mail action with messages newMessages

repeat with newMessage in newMessages

tell application "Mail"

set taskName to content of newMessage

set taskNotes to taskName & " (From " & the sender of newMessage & ")"

tell application "Things"

set newToDo to make new to do with properties {name:taskName, notes:taskNotes}

end tell

tell application "Growl"

set the allNotificationsList to ¬

{"Task Created"}

set the enabledNotificationsList to ¬

{"Task Created"}

register as application ¬

"Create Task from Multiple Mail (Growl Enabled)" all notifications allNotificationsList ¬

default notifications enabledNotificationsList ¬

icon of application "Things"

notify with name ¬

"Task Created" title ¬

"Task created in Things" description ¬

taskName application name "Create Task from Multiple Mail (Growl Enabled)"

end tell

end tell

end repeat

end perform mail action with messages

end using terms from

At the moment the body contains line breaks, and makes the task format strangely in things, if you know how to add some code to remove the line breaks from the subject I would appreciate it!

Note you need to place this in the new place where Mail expects scripts to be, navigable via the rules definition screens under Mail preferences.

Things email integration

Wonderful things are a foot; I have discovered email integration with Things. There are two scripts;

1) Send email to Things https://culturedcode.com/things/wiki/index.php/MailToThings - This allows you to send an email to yourself with subject line "Add to things" and a task will be created in your Things inbox on your Mac with the message body added as the task in Things. Brilliant! This is going to be very useful when I want to set myself a task at work or forward an email that I want as a task; I can change the subject to "Add to things" and it will be waiting for me in my Things inbox when I get home, brilliant! It just requires downloading an AppleScript and adding a rule to to Mail; follow the link it's all explained.

2) Add email to Things https://culturedcode.com/things/wiki/index.php/AppleScript:Create_new_tasks_from_Mail_messages%2C_adding_Growl_notification Similar to the first one, but this is for when you receive an email that you want to make a task out of (which is a regular thing), instead of manually adding to Things you can now select the message(s) and run an AppleScript and each of the messages will be added to the Things inbox as a new Task, with the subject as the task, and message body as the notes of the task. Brilliant! It even gives you a notification message when it creates the task - you just need to install Growl (notification app) you can download that from the App Store here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/growl/id467939042?mt=12&ign-mpt=uo%3D4.

Loving Things, and love this email integration, brilliant! :-)