{"id":3211,"date":"2015-06-19T07:03:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T14:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2015-07-16T09:29:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T16:29:14","slug":"tip-use-flags-to-mark-tasks-when-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/tip-use-flags-to-mark-tasks-when-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: Use Flags to Mark Tasks when Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 19, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you are like me you read a lot of your e-mail on your smartphone. But what if you want to convert an e-mail you read into a task? Most smartphone mail apps cannot do that (there are exceptions and I’ll list them below).<\/p>\n

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What I do is mark them with a flag, and then when back at my desktop or laptop, convert them to a task there (and remove the flag, and file the e-mail).<\/p>\n

Now, I normally only recommend using flags for deferred replies<\/a>. So I wish there were another way to mark these. But most smartphones have no other way. It’s not so bad though; I find when I look at them later it only takes a second for me to recall why I flagged the item. It works. If you use Gmail, then use the star in the same way.<\/p>\n

If this doesn’t work for you for some reason, another method is to forward the email to yourself so it pops into your Inbox a second time, but this time put the word TASK in front of the subject line. A little drastic, but it works.<\/p>\n

Here are some smartphone apps that allow converting e-mails to tasks:<\/p>\n