Mail messages stored in Notes

MindLedger

Anyone using Notes to store/copy some important e-mails - as opposed to simply archiving/foldering them in the mail app. What are the advantages- linking, annotating, tagging, or something else? Export as pdf or copy paste? Interested in your thoughts.

James-Ashby

Depending on the situationL

For relatively short blocks of text where I don’t anticipate needing to interact with the email, either highlight text and share to a note or copy and paste to a note.. In either case there is no link back to the original email and you have a block of plain text in the note which is easy to work with
For longer blocks of text, print the email and save pdf to note. Preserves the appearance/formatting of the original email but no link back.
If I will need to interact with the email later I drag and drop it into a note which gives a link back to the email.

AnneVoss

I basically just print the email using CMD-P this will display the dialog. On the bottom there is a button with PDF, where I changed the default action from 'Save as PDF' to Upload PDF to Notes.

I also have a shortcut that will parse the "Date: ….." line from the PDF and puts that date on the Clipboard, so I can also provide the date easier to read in the note itself.

The great advantage of storing important emails in Notes / FN is that I can tag them.