Mail: Possibility to add a task from a mail

[jakobroehrl]

Feature Request

If the Tasks App is enabled, the option would be nice to add a new Task from an email.
With Subject, first x lines of the Body and maybe the link to the mail.

Summary

Function to add a new Task from a mail

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[ChristophWurst]

FYI the issue templates are there for a reason and shall not be ignored: https://github.com/nextcloud/mail/issues/new?assignees=&labels=enhancement%2C+0.+to+triage&template=feature_request.md&title=

[ChristophWurst]

https://github.com/nextcloud/mail/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#submitting-issues

[jakobroehrl]

@ChristophWurst Sorry, updated it.

[David100mark]

I would really love this feature!
We mostly use the deck-app in our organisation, so maybe you could aswell add the option to add it to a board.

[ChristophWurst]

As far as I know there are some unification efforts going on to combine what Tasks and Deck do

[ilippert]

@jakobroehrl

if I may, I would suggest to slightly alter the feature request:
from

With Subject, first x lines of the Body and maybe the link to the mail.

to

Select/mark a text segment of an email, then click a button to generate task, using subject line for task name, the marked text segment for the task's details and add a link to the email.

[ChristophWurst]

I'd say the first implementation can be a bit simplistic with an automated way of picking the data, in the second iteration we can refine this and offer a dialogue.

@ilippert would you be interested in learning more about how to contribute code to Nextcloud Mail?

[ilippert]

Thanks @ChristophWurst for asking. Definitively would love to learn - but maybe after I give up on my current career as a social scientist. But do let me know if I can be of help with my expertise as somebody who can design research projects on the use of and reading/writing of emails in everyday life.

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[ChristophWurst]

let's continue in https://github.com/nextcloud/mail/issues/3064