"Email as todo" approach on desktop

I don't know any analogical solution for desktop. On my Linux machine I use bunch of tiny self written bash scripts (see next section).

I see two obvious workarounds:

1. Use web version of your email provider. I use Gmail and it's good. If you add your new task-specific email to your Google contacts then Gmail will add the email into completion for To: field.
2. Use desktop email client of your choice (though, I have never seen good client for Linux)

Anyway, I don't find it critical that such an app doesn't exist on desktop. Main reason for me making such an app for Android was that it's not convenient to enter destination address every time (+ integration with Android Tiles and Android sharing menu). On desktop, I have fully-fledged keyboard and I can type fast so it's not a problem for me to fill in destination address every time (thanks to To: field completion in Gmail).

Maybe, one day I will write fully-fledged Todomail solution for desktops (no, I won't).

Simple bash scripts (for Linux but it should be possible to make them work on macOS)

Like I said, beside web version of Gmail, I also use bunch of self-written bash scripts which you can observer in this directory. 4 Frontend commands: todo, todo-work, todo-gui, todo-work-gui and 2 plumbing helper scripts: _todo-base, _todo-gui-base. It's simple curl scripts which send email over SMTP.

todo and todo-work are intended for creating personal and work todos in cli respectively. *-gui scripts open up a terminal with editor opened where X primary selection is prefilled.

Installing those scripts on your Linux machine

0. Dependencies
   1. The scripts use micro editor for interactive todo editing so you have to either install the editor or amend the scripts to use editor of your choice.
   2. *-gui scripts use terminator terminal emulator in order to show terminal window so you have to either install the emulator or amend the scripts to use terminal emulator of your choice.
   3. The scripts use xclip to capture your X primary clipboard. You should install it too.
1. Place the scripts somewhere in your $PATH.
2. Fill in your credentials in _todo-base script.
3. Fill in your personal destination address in todo.
4. Fill in your work destination address in todo-work.
5. Assign todo-gui and todo-work-gui scripts to preferred shortcuts in you Desktop Environment.