Script to allow adding of next actions by SMS

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Eric Lesh has written a great Perl script which you can use from a mobile phone by sending an SMS or email containing the details of the action to add. In his words on the mailing list:

“Tracks has been great to me, but too often I find myself without a computer when I have to write down something important.  I am lazy, and suffer from my-Moleskine-is-too-nice-to-write-in-itis, so usually.  I just don’t write anything down at all. Since I usually have my cell phone, and it can send emails through SMS, this seemed the ideal candidate for adding next actions.”

“To make it work, add a procmail recipe like so:”


 :0:
 * ^From:.*MYNUMBER@MYPROVIDER.COM
 | /path/to/sms_todo.pl

“With Evolution, Mail.app, Outlook, or whatever else you use for mail, there is probably a way to do this also.  Just pipe the email through the script when it comes from your phone.”

“Messages should be in the format:
Email Bill about TPS reports.  Context computer.”

Thanks, Eric! For those who might not know how to send an SMS to an email address, you probably need to check your provider’s site for details, but for T-Mobile UK, I found that I could send an SMS to 191 in the following form:

email@mydomain.com#Email bill about TPS reports. Context computer.

 

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