Total agreement. I think the best way to deal with this is what Apple's Mail.app does - it parses the body of the mail and puts little "add to iCal" buttons next to things it's pretty sure are dates of things to do. It's got some kind of integration with the system todo list, too, but I dunno how it works as I don't use that.
And if you want to explicitly invite someone to something, you mail 'em a calendar item, it picks it up, and you can very definitely stick it in your calendar. It understands a bunch of different calendar formats, even. I thought THAT was pretty much standard across all modern email clients?
Sometimes I wonder if the people writing these diatribes about how EMAIL IS BROKEN IT NEEDS CALENDAR/TODO INTEGRATION are still using Pine or something.
The real brokenness of email is the insecurity and spam, IMHO. Fix spam and you've done something. And good luck on that problem.
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Total agreement. I think the best way to deal with this is what Apple's Mail.app does - it parses the body of the mail and puts little "add to iCal" buttons next to things it's pretty sure are dates of things to do. It's got some kind of integration with the system todo list, too, but I dunno how it works as I don't use that.
And if you want to explicitly invite someone to something, you mail 'em a calendar item, it picks it up, and you can very definitely stick it in your calendar. It understands a bunch of different calendar formats, even. I thought THAT was pretty much standard across all modern email clients?
Sometimes I wonder if the people writing these diatribes about how EMAIL IS BROKEN IT NEEDS CALENDAR/TODO INTEGRATION are still using Pine or something.
The real brokenness of email is the insecurity and spam, IMHO. Fix spam and you've done something. And good luck on that problem.