GTD tickler functionality in Mail.app

I just wrote a bit of AppleScript to handle simple tickler functionality in the OS X Mail.app. Grab the source here, open it in Script Editor.app, and export it as a .app.

Thanks to Andy Warwick for his GTD Tickle Email script. This script began life as a variant of Andy’s work, but has since been rewritten. You can grab a copy of Andy’s script from http://homepage.mac.com/creed_nmd/FileSharing12.html

Basic use instructions follow.

GTDMail.app is a simple implementation of a tickler file, roughly as is described in the Getting Things Done book.

To use the tickler in Mail.app, run the script to create the folders needed for the tickler.

Then, as you receive email messages that need to be handled or reviewed in the future, move the messages to the appropriate month, week or day you wish to be reminded in.

When you run the script in the future, the messages stored in the current month, week and day folders will be moved into the @INBOX folder that the script creates.