Add task from Thunderbird to taskwarrior

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A custom button script in Thunderbird to add emails as task in Taskwarrior

Dependencies

Taskwarrior: http://www.taskwarrior.org/
Thunderbird: http://www.mozillamessaging.com/thunderbird/
Custom button add-on for Thunderbird: https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/custom-buttons/
For recent versions of Thunderbird (if above link will not install): http://custombuttons.mozdev.org/devbuilds.html
Install perl MIME-tools: sudo apt-get install libmime-tools-perl or Archlinux: extra/perl-mime-tools

Installation & Usage

1. Add new button to Thunderbird (right click on toolbar and select ‘Add new button…’)
2. Name: Add to task
3. Code: Copy the content Download custom-button.tb2taskwarrior
4. (optional) customise topicName (e.g. change +inbox +email tags)
5. Add created button to Thunderbird toolbar
6. Select an email and click on created button

Download tb2taskwarrior.png for button icon.

Change log

• 15 Sep 2012: cygwin support added

Todo

• Test under Mac.
• Add multiple-tasks

Contribution

Feel free to contribute to this project.