Amendment to push Next Actions into Inbox
Hey, GTD Police and this mod are both fantastic (and essential) additions to the GTD add-in. Many thanks to all involved!!
But I was still bothered by the fact that the automatically created Next Actions are turned straight into tasks, and therefore bypass the InBox, and don't find their way into @Actions, @Deferred, which is where I tend to spend my time.
So, without in any way understanding VBA macros, I made one trivial change to your GTD Police mod - I change the new object to a MailObj (ie, a message) instead of a TaskObj. The result is that I automatically get a new message opening up, and I simply send it to myself to drop it in my InBox. This then gives me full control over what happens next, ie I can Action it, Defer it, Delegate it, Snooze it, File it or Delete it, and I now get the full use of the @Action, @Defered, etc views.
This is much better suited to the way I have got used to using GTD.
Now, if I knew what I was doing in VBA a little better, I'm sure I could figure out how to *automatically* get the created message into my InBox (with the proper Project value already set, instead of having to do the extra manual step of addressing and sending the message to myself.
What do you think? Is that a useful mod, or have I got the whole thing arse-up? If it's a worthwhile change, then can any VBA whiz figure out how to *automatically* drop the new message straight into my InBox?
Thanks HEAPS,
Lee (Sydney Australia)