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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task
« on: August 07, 2008, 03:21 PM »
I'll think about this. Meanwhile, do you know about the core "email" aliases? You can already do something like "email [email protected] subject". That comes really close.
-jpijper (August 06, 2008, 11:12 PM)

It comes close but fails miserably due to the fact that it only works for email addresses you know. The great thing about your program is that it interfaces with outlook directly and you only have to know the name of the person and not their email address which can sometimes be very convoluted.

Please consider adding this if you can, it would definitely be something i and i'm sure others would use daily :D.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task
« on: August 06, 2008, 01:07 PM »
Wow the functionality of this alias keeps growing, great work! Maybe you should change the name to QuickOutlook ;).

Also to elaborate on my feature request above as i am re-reading it now and it seems a little vague. My idea was to add a switch like /email where you could enter in the name(s) of ppl in your contact list that you wanted to email and this would open up a new email msg with the person(s) email address already filled in. You could also potentially add a /subject and /body switch so that you could do something like:

do /email "john doe" "nancy smith" /subject painting /body when are we going to paint the house

which would pop a new email msg with the email addresses, subject and body filled in and you could just hit send. Another cool idea would be to add a /send switch so if you wanted to shoot off a quick email you could use "do /email jane /subject see you at dinner /send" which would send out the email instead of popping up the new email dialog.


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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task
« on: August 05, 2008, 05:08 PM »
I was thinking about something like:

do /display - would show all tasks (maybe you could have an option to limit the number of results?)
do /display /c work projectx - display all tasks in work and projectx category
do /display /p high - display all the high priority tasks
do /display /d today - display all tasks due today
....

So bascially each command would list the tasks inside FARR just like any other results. You could then simply go down to the task you wanted in the results list hit <tab> which could insert that task into the edit box with the alias in front of it (i.e. "do paint the house") and then you could simply enter the action you wanted to perform on that task (i.e. /up /complete or /p low, etc..).
-s.newave (August 05, 2008, 11:25 AM)

Well, I have to admit that this sounds like a great idea. But I have to be realistic: this would be a non-trivial undertaking and I just don't have the time for this right now. As it is, this Do thing, which started out as just an alias using an existing tiny do.exe that I found somewhere, has grown beyond anything I imagined. Sort of law of nature in software development, I suppose. Don't mistake me, it's great fun and I find the result really useful for myself as well. Later, perhaps ...
-jpijper (August 05, 2008, 12:59 PM)

Totally understandable. The exsiting functionality works really well though and this is definitely a great alias to have :Thmbsup:.

This would help out a great deal as well with not having to remember or look up the exact name of the task when you want to update it. I find a lot of times that i have to first look up the name of the task in outlook so that i can use the same name when i go to update it which kind of defeats the whole purpose.
-s.newave (August 05, 2008, 11:25 AM)

I agree that if you work with tasks extensively the calls on your memory may become a serious issue. To relieve at least some of this problem, I will shortly release another version, which will look for subjects containing the string given, not just the one starting with it. Thus "do /up paint" would find "Paint the house", "Buy new paint", "Hang up painting", etc. This should just about remove the need to look up task names in Outlook, I think.
-jpijper (August 05, 2008, 12:59 PM)

Thanks for the update. The 1.4.1 version works great with the new feature.

I was also playing around with the /displaycontacts feature and it is very handy!!! Is there any chance you would consider adding something similar for an /email switch? This way you could do something like: do /email "henry smith" "john doe". Perhaps even add a /subject switch although im probably pushing it already :D. Imo this would be a really useful feature to add and something i could see myself using on a daily basis.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task
« on: August 05, 2008, 11:25 AM »
How cool would it be to be able to display your current tasks within FARR itself and then be able to perform actions on them.
-s.newave (August 04, 2008, 11:59 PM)

Can you give me a sample scenario of the the sort of actions you are thinking of?
-jpijper (August 05, 2008, 12:57 AM)

I was thinking about something like:

do /display - would show all tasks (maybe you could have an option to limit the number of results?)
do /display /c work projectx - display all tasks in work and projectx category
do /display /p high - display all the high priority tasks
do /display /d today - display all tasks due today
....

So bascially each command would list the tasks inside FARR just like any other results. You could then simply go down to the task you wanted in the results list hit <tab> which could insert that task into the edit box with the alias in front of it (i.e. "do paint the house") and then you could simply enter the action you wanted to perform on that task (i.e. /up /complete or /p low, etc..).

This would help out a great deal as well with not having to remember or look up the exact name of the task when you want to update it. I find a lot of times that i have to first look up the name of the task in outlook so that i can use the same name when i go to update it which kind of defeats the whole purpose :D.


P.S the new v1.4 is working great, especially with the auto-update :up:

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task
« on: August 04, 2008, 11:59 PM »
"do test /complete" creates a new task and marks it complete.
"do test /up /complete" marks an existing task test as complete.
-jpijper (August 04, 2008, 11:28 PM)

Doh, should've looked a little closer at the readme, everything seems to be working well. I have to say though this type of functionality really makes me long for even more outlook integration :D. How cool would it be to be able to display your current tasks within FARR itself and then be able to perform actions on them. I know you mentioned you wanted to keep the functionality separate but there is a killer plugin in here just waiting to be born 8).

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