Link (or associate) emails and calendar events
This is different from creating a Calendar event from an email.
It is the ability to associate one or more emails with a Calendar event (or a task, which is a feature I expect to see soon).
Simple use-case:
- You receive 3 emails on different days notifying you about a delivery you'll have in 2 weeks time.
- You create a Calendar event two weeks from now saying "a delivery is expected on this day".
- You link the emails you receive regarding that delivery to that calendar event (or task). Any further emails you receive can also be linked to that event.
- When going into the calendar event, you can see a list of emails associated with it.
This is very similar to how labels work, but instead of labels, they are actual Calendar events.
Another use-case is trip planning. You want to be able to easily refer to the relevant emails directly from a Calendar event.
This can be achieved quite easily by storing an email UID in a special section of the Calendar event metadata, and similarly, the Calendar events UIDs in the email metadata.
Ion
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IanT
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Many have requested a checklist function for the Calendar. The ability to assign/ link specific emails with checklist tasks, as well as to create checklists from emails fits well under Ion's request here.