Any easy way to make a new Note?

[kevs1]

I starting to go more and more paperless and times go by, so I need an easy way to make notes on incoming e-mails.

I don't see an easy way to do it.

I would think you could right click and then select something.

As It is, I know you could go to the note area and make a note, and then mouse over to Tools, and navigate to link to Note, and then select the coorect note in the list-- that is all crazily cumbersome.

Can someone help me out? thanks!

Kevs
OFFICE 2004
MAC OS 10.4.11

 

[Kerry]

I starting to go more and more paperless and times go by, so I need an easy way to make notes on incoming e-mails.

I don't see an easy way to do it.

I would think you could right click and then select something.

As It is, I know you could go to the note area and make a note, and then mouse over to Tools, and navigate to link to Note, and then select the coorect note in the list-- that is all crazily cumbersome.

Can someone help me out? thanks!

Kevs
OFFICE 2004
MAC OS 10.4.11

In the leftmost part of the mail column you should see a small link
button. This allows you directly link an existing item to mail or
create a new one which will then be linked.

 

[kevs1]

No, I don't see a link button, and I don't thing that would make the process much less time consuming no?

Why not the simplicity of clicking on the mail and typing in a not? We can't do this yet?

 

[kevs1]

Anyone out there? This is killing me that there is no way to add an easy note to an email.

 

[kevs1]

I just tested the cumbersom, make note, then link to note, I still don't see any symbol in the e mail that it has a note? I just a common link symbol which hundreds of other e-mail without notes have? anyone out there?

 

[Barry Wainwright]

Under the script menu (the little black one that looks like a scroll) there
should be a script to 'make note from message'

By default that script can be fired by control-N

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[kevs1]

thanks Barry, some hope here.

I don't see it. I only see scripts that I have put in there over the years.

You would mean, make a note for the message. have a link to get script?

Is 2008 any better for this?

I envision, you right click and add a note, and you see a symol showing the e mail has notes

 

[Diane Ross]

As It is, I know you could go to the note area and make a note, and then mouse
over to Tools, and navigate to link to Note, and then select the coorect note
in the list-- that is all crazily cumbersome.

Under File in the Menu bar, select New --> Note

In Entourage you can make a new note from a message using one of the default
scripts. Create Note from Message.

I just checked and there is no Automator action to create a new Note in
Entourage 2008. You can create a new ToDo with Leopard and Mail.

Entourage 2008 allows you to customize window. You could add the Link icon
to link a message to a Note. I think you can do this in 2004 with a Menu
item for Link to. Look under Tools in the Menu bar.

You might like Yojimbo from Bare Bones. You click F8 and a new note entry
pops up. You can add tags for easy searching. US$39

Bare Bones Software : PRODUCTS : YOJIMBO
<http://www.barebones.com/products/yojimbo/index.shtml>

 

[kevs1]

thanks Diane, do you know where I dig out that default script I probably deleted?

Do you agree this sucks?

Why do I imagine that you right click on a message and then you add a note and then the message has a little round red icon that you just scroll over to read the note.

 

[Diane Ross]

thanks Diane, do you know where I dig out that default script I probably
deleted?

Create a new Identity under Entourage in the Menu bar. It will have the
original setup.

Do you agree this sucks?

Why do I imagine that you right click on a message and then you add a note and
then the message has a little round red icon that you just scroll over to read
the note.

It works when you are doing it with emails, but for general note keeping
you'll find that you might like a third party application better.

 

[kevs1]

Diane:
I created a new test identity, but the same old scripts were there for it

 

[Diane Ross]

Diane:
I created a new test identity, but the same old scripts were there for it

Copy and paste this script into the script editor. Place the script in the
Entourage Script Menu Items folder.

(*
Create Note from Message

Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
*)

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"

-- get the currently selected message or messages
set selectedMessages to current messages

-- if there are no messages selected, warn the user and then quit
if selectedMessages is {} then
display dialog "Please select a message first and then run this
script." with icon 1
return
end if

repeat with theMessage in selectedMessages

-- get the information from the message, and store it in variables
set theName to subject of theMessage
set theCategory to category of theMessage
set theContent to content of theMessage

-- create a new note with the information from the message
set newNote to make new note with properties {name:theName,
category:theCategory, content:theContent}

-- create a link between the message and the new note
link theMessage to newNote

-- if there was only one message selected, then open that new note
if (count of selectedMessages) = 1 then open newNote
end repeat
end tellI