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19.9. To Dos

You've got all this mail piling up with all sorts of things to remember: dinner dates,

meeting times, project deadlines, car-service appointments. Wouldn't it be great if you

didn't have to remember to look through your mailbox to find out what you're supposed

to be doing that day?

It would, and it is, thanks to Mail's To Do feature. And the best part is that Mail accesses

the same To Do list as iCal. The same task list shows up in both programs.

19.9.1. Creating To Dos

You can use To Dos in several different ways. For example, when you get an email

message that requires further action ("I need the photos for the condo association

newsletter by Friday"), highlight the important part of the text. Then do any of these

things:

• Click To Do in the message window's toolbar.

• Choose File New To Do.

• Press Option- -Y.

• Control-click (or right-click) the highlighted text, and then choose New To Do

from the shortcut menu.

In each case, Mail pops a copy of the selected text into a yellow strip of note-style paper

at the top of the message, as shown in Figure 19-22.

That task is also listed in the Reminders area of the Mailboxes list. If you need to see all

the tasks that await you from all your mail accounts, click the flippy triangle to have it

spin open and reveal your chores. The number in the gray circle indicates how many To

Do items you still need to do.

Tip: Control-click (or right-click) any item in this To Do list to open a shortcut menu that

offers useful controls for setting its due date, priority, and calendar (that is, iCal

category).

When you click the To Do area of the Mailboxes list, all your tasks are listed in the center

of the Mail window. Click the gray arrow after each To Do subject line to jump back to

the original message it came from.