I’m really enjoying the Getting Things Done system (more on that later), but I needed a way to put actionable emails into Things — my to-do list program of choice.
Here is a little AppleScript that I trigger from Mail.app using Mail Act On. Go to Pastie and click download on the top right, then save the file to /Library/Scripts/Mail Scripts/message_to_things.scpt
I then setup a Mail Act On rule as follows:

It took me just a few minutes to make, but it will save me way more time recreating to-dos in Things.