TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Things 1.2 has a new feature in the quick entry dialogue:

Imagine the following scenario: You receive an email from a friend asking you to buy some items for his party. Previously, if you wanted to add that information to Things, you would invoke the Quick Entry dialog by pressing the system-wide keyboard shortcut. You would enter a task title and then copy over the items you need to buy for the party into the notes section. You might also want a link to the original email so you can reply to your friend once you’ve completed your errands. In this case you would have to drag and drop the email into the notes section as well. As you can see, this process is quite involved and cumbersome.

Wouldn’t it be great if Things just recognized the application you’re in and tried to extract the most useful information for you?

When invoked over, say, Mail.app, Things will insert any highlighted text, along with a link to the email, into the “notes” section.

That’s really clever.

(Via Pat Dryburgh.)