You can now drag & drop emails into the task-view directly from your email program (Outlook, Windows Live Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Lotus Notes, The Bat! and possibly others). When you do that, magical wonders and miracles happen – the email is automatically converted into a task!

Lots of tasks come to our lives via email. This feature can be a considerable time saver.

But that’s not all! You will be also delighted to know that:

• You can drag & drop multiple emails at once
• Email subjects are used as task names
• Email body is used as task notes
• Email attachments are added as embedded task attachments
• The email itself is added as an embedded task attachment, so you can easily open the email again, and reply to it from your email program
• When dragging from Outlook, the notes will keep the HTML formatting, otherwise, the plain-text variant is used
• You can also drag & drop .eml, .msg and .mim files directly into the task-view. This can be useful if your email client doesn’t support external drag & drop – simply export the messages to files, then drag & drop the files into Swift To-Do List.
• When dragging from Outlook, you can drag & drop not just emails, but also Outlook tasks, and Outlook appointments
• The original messages are left intact, of course. Swift To-Do List works with a copy.

When drag & dropping a single email, Add Task window will open, enabling you to tweak the task as needed before adding it. When drag & dropping multiple emails, they are added immediately. You can edit them with the Batch Edit feature via the right-click context menu.

Quick video demonstration

What if my email client isn’t supported?

Some email clients, like Pocomail or Evolution don’t support external drag & drop. However, despair not, as there is a remedy! You can simply export the email(s) from your email client to a .eml or .msg file. Then, drag & drop these files into Swift To-Do List.

What if I use web-mail only?

You can either start using a desktop email client, like Mozilla Thunderbird, or, if your web-mail supports export to .eml or .msg, you can save the emails to your HDD, then drag & drop the files into Swift To-Do List.

Feedback welcome

If you have any questions, suggestions or comments regarding this new feature, post them below.

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• How to attach emails from Outlook to tasks (Video)
• Swift To-Do List 7.10 released: Embedded file attachments, attach emails to tasks, and more
• What’s New in 7.25: Import Wizard, better Batch Edit, more
• 30-second check: Do you get the maximum from Swift To-Do List?
• Is your to-do list impossible to finish?
• How to use Due Dates in your to-do list correctly

Turn emails into tasks – just drag & drop them into Swift To-Do List! is a post from: Swift To-Do List Blog

New Swift To-Do List, version 7.25 is here! This update brings some significant enhancements. You can download it here.

Import Wizard

Universal Import Wizard is the biggest new feature. You can import tasks from Outlook, Lotus Notes, Excel and many other programs, including Task Merlin, VIP Organizer, MyLifeOrganized, and more.

You can even import data from many web-apps including Toodledo and our own web-based application Swift To-Do List Online.

The Import Wizard can import any CSV/TSV/TXT file (comma separated, tab separated, plain text). Because many applications support export to CSV, it is now possible to easily import data from them into your Swift To-Do List.

You can find the Import wizard under File – Import Wizard:

The Import Wizard has just 4 steps:

1. In the first step, you select the file to be imported.
2. In the second step, you can configure the file format – which is usually not needed.
3. In the third step, you specify what fields to import (also usually not needed).
4. In the final step, you select the target to-do list, where the imported tasks will be placed.

Because you can import multiple files into one Swift To-Do List database, you effectively merge data from multiple organizers into a single Swift To-Do List database.

Some screenshots of the Import Wizard:

Improved Batch Edit – New Item

The Batch Edit for Priority, Type, Context, Status and Assigned To has just gotten a big upgrade. You do not have to select only from existing items, but you can choose to create a new Priority/Type/Context/(…). It looks like this:

Improved Batch Edit for due date and start date

Batch editing of due dates and start dates has now improved “Quick Dates” feature. The window can be expanded/collapsed, and 9 presets are presented:

Notes “Export To File” feature improved

When you are exporting notes to a file, the default file name will be the name of the task that the notes belong to. A little time-saver.

Faster mouse wheel scrolling, immediate closing of reminder window

Another little time saver. When you scroll the task-view using mouse wheel, it will scroll 3x faster now (but not too fast, don’t worry!). The speed is now comparable to scrolling speed in Windows Explorer, so all is good and jolly. The old version has scrolled only by a single task on each mouse wheel step, which required a bit of patience if you had a long task list.

Reminder window is now closing immediately.

Some small fixes

There were some rare issues reported by our users, so we’ve taken care of them. We love our users and we listen to them. But you know that already, don’t you?

Online synchronization underway

We are still working on the online synchronization as much as we can. The first beta is coming soon.

Related Posts:

• Turn emails into tasks – just drag & drop them into Swift To-Do List!
• How to attach emails from Outlook to tasks (Video)
• Swift To-Do List 7.10 released: Embedded file attachments, attach emails to tasks, and more
• Coming soon: Attach emails, embed file attachments
• Swift To-Do List 8 launched!
• Coming Soon: New Swift To-Do List 8 with subtasks!

What’s New in 7.25: Import Wizard, better Batch Edit, more is a post from: Swift To-Do List Blog