mutt-to-omnifocus.py is a short python script to create OmniFocus tasks from messages in mutt. Actually, it's a relatively MUA-agnostic script in that it accepts any RFC-compliant message that the python email package can handle on STDIN.

My use case for developing this script is that I want to acheive some version of Inbox Zero, and doing so (for me) involves off-loading e-mails into tasks. If you use Mail.app, of course, OmniFocus provide the Clip-O-Tron for linking tasks with messages. One of the (few) drawbacks of using mutt is that it doesn't readily integrate into Mac OS X. So I wrote this script that creates a task in the inbox. The subject of the e-mail is used for the name of the task, whilst various headers are placed into the note (enough to identify the e-mail by). I tend to use the Message-ID field to pull up the e-mail later in mutt by using the ~i pattern modifier.

Usage

Place the script somewhere in your $PATH, and then use something like the following in your mutt configuration files:

macro index,pager \cL "<pipe-message>mutt-to-omnifocus.py<enter>" \
    "Create OmniFocus task from message"

If you want to bring up the task in the quick entry panel instead, use the -q option:

macro index,pager \cL "<pipe-message>mutt-to-omnifocus.py -q<enter>" \
    "Create OmniFocus task from message"

-- Andrew Ho [email protected]