A couple days ago, I wrote about my paper void. I wanted something that would let me quickly (and optionally) snap a photo of the paperwork and get that photo stored in Evernote and sent to my task management app, in this case reQall.

Happy to say that I managed to work something out. Here’s how the finished “product” works:

1. I take a photo of the papers and email it to a specific email address.
2. Gmail adds a label to emails sent to that address, so it labels the one I sent. This is done via a filter.
3. IfThisThenThat (http://ifttt.com) has a task set up with a Gmail trigger on, you guessed it, the label with which Gmail just labeled it.
4. IfThisThenThat reacts and emails the task to reQall, using the “received on” date to set the reQall due date so I can schedule it when I next look at reQall. (And all the obnoxious emails in my inbox both don’t hurt and hurt. But I’ll figure out a way to solve that with some other tool.
5. Another Gmail filter detects if the email sent to the special address has an attachment. If so, it forwards it to my Evernote Mobile email address.

Voilà! I can take a photo, share it with myself on my phone, and I’ve at least saved myself a bit of time.

I’m still not really satisfied and might write a little app so I can do this in bulk on one screen on my phone…but this scratches my itch for now, and I don’t really want to write an app. I have better things to do.