My primary way of adding tasks to Goodtask is by sharing an email from Airmail to it using the share dialog in iOS. What I generally get then is a task titled the subject of the email, with the link taking me back to the original email in Airmail. (This is great in helping maintain inbox zero, btw.)
However sometimes, and without rhyme or reason, what happens instead with the same process is that the full text of the email goes into the task title and the link picks up some url from the copy in the email. Example:
In this example, it picks up the link from the signature of the sender rather than the link to the email in Airmail. This does not happen every time there is a link in the email. I haven't been able to discern a pattern.
Thanks for the feedback Mike. I'm not using Airmail so I'm not sure how they share email but I'll tell you how GoodTask handles it. When there is no specific data in URL field, GoodTask searches title and then notes field for any URLs. If there is any, it's shown on URL field to easily open it. (Used on Quick Action too)
Currently it gets the first URL so I assume those latter ones have URL that's fetched before airmail URL scheme.
I'll keep your feedback as something like 'Use last URL searched' on the list to consider. Would this resolve the issue?
Note that the example above performs as expected. In a perfect world, I'd rather the subject line be the title and the email body go to notes (which come to think of it, would likely solve the original problem).
BUT with many emails, the link does not go to the airmail app but to a website linked in the body of the email. The big culprit seems to be email signatures that feature URLs.
I've tested Airmail and if you use 'Share' menu, it adds title, text and url scheme all in one text which goes to the title of a task. On this case, using last url should resolve the issue (Of course it's not an option yet but just saying).
It seems like Airmail also has an action 'Send to Reminder' which simply adds title and url link on notes field. This could be an alternate way to keep email related task going.
Ahh- I see what you mean on Send to Reminder. That could have been the solution, save that it puts the date and time the email was sent into the "due" field.
The Shortcut will ask you to add your Reminders List names, but will give you the ability to choose List and Due Date, and keep the url to link to the Airmail message. I don't have the full message text passing through to the reminder, just the Subject and an "#email" tag which I use for smart lists.
