Emails as unique object type
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Daniel Sheeter
It would be great to have the option for forwarded emails to be saved to their own unique object type in addition to the current functionality of appending them to the Daily Notes.
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Beth
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An Option to Not Bring in Images from Emails
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Michael Wilson
When I use the feature to log emails I send in my daily notes, it also pulls all the images from people's signature lines and saves them in my "images" folder, leaving me with a lot of random logos and pictures. I'd love a way to bring in only the text, or an easy way to mass-delete those random images, leaving my "images" helpful folder uncluttered. Thank you!
Beth
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Emails sent to daily note appear in unpleasant format (tables)
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Sly NI
Emails I forwarded to save@capacities.io appear as tables with lots of lengthy weblinks after the table. The table has a blank column to the left and right of the column with the email's contents. The width of the email content column is tiny and thus the column is long. It's basically unusable unless I put in extra work.
This makes the whole process feel like it's not worth the hustle of formatting what landed in my daily note.
I mainly forward newsletters that I'd like to save for later and make extra notes, highlights etc.
On the lengthy links, I agree that the emails come with them, but can you please just make the forwarded email appear just as it did in my email client? Pretty, usable, easy to read.
Beth
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Routing incoming emails to a custom inbox page
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Andy Harris
As I understand it, emails sent to Capacities go to the daily note by default, with no option to change the destination without the use of hashtags in the subject line. As part of my workflow, however, I often use the "bcc" line to send emails requiring follow-up to Capacities - and adding tags in this context is not practical. I’d like the option to route them automatically to a dedicated inbox page object without needing to modify subject lines or add tags. This would centralize all imported emails in one place for easier review and organization. Is this feature planned or possible? I’d appreciate any guidance or community input.
Thanks!
Beth
Hi Andy Harris, we will add an email object type in the future which would suit this workflow (the type would be the inbox) but there's no ETA on this.
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Andy Harris
Beth Thank you!
Beth
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Emails forwarded to Capacities
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Rick Conklin
Right now when i forward an email a "poor" version lands in my Daily note. There are no images, just a bunch of links.
I had hoped that a full version of the email (HTML images etc) would fall into their own "object type" similar to pdfs and images.
Are there any plans to do that?
Here is a very normal use case. (1) My upcoming vacation. I want to create a "project" (trip) to collect all these in one place. I want to forward emails from my airline itinerary, I want to forward, my cruise info, my excursion info, my HOTEL reservations. ALL of these come via email.
Another use case (2) My business meeting. Again, I want to collect all these in one place (project). Hotel reservations, plane itinerary, the emails from my boss and co-worker about the upcoming business meeting. All these come by email.
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Michael von Hohnhorst
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This is planned. Can't give you an ETA yet though.
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Kuntal Go
Michael von Hohnhorst Having Email as a separate object type just like tweets will be of great help. All those mails I am forwarding to Capacities would not only get added to Daily Notes but neatly get organized in a Email object with metadata, links extracted and maybe in future AI can also auto-add actionable items to them.
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André Hake
Michael von Hohnhorst Planned in Sep 2023. :-) It's March 2025... how long is this going to take ;-)
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Dannis Cole
André Hake I am also looking forward to this! I have a directory with almost 700 stories in it. I wish I could add this folder into Capacities, and break these hundreds of docs into individual projects, or at least have links to the docs in Capacities. I'm just beginning here, and made my first object today.
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Joan Stuart
Michael von Hohnhorst I would like to add my vote to this as well. I am a new user and the travel scenario described by Rick Conklin is exactly what I need! Thank you.