If you send me an email with something I have to do, I’ll forward it right into my OmniFocus inbox and deal with it. It’ll be right there in my To Do list because OmniFocus has this terrific maildrop feature. But now you can have that whatever To Do app you use because there is an If This Then That trick to do exactly this with Apple’s Mail and Reminders app.

From Cult of Mac, here’s how:
http://m.cultofmac.com/cultofmac/#!/entry/turn-your-emails-into-reminders-with-if-this-then-that,52aa162ce56d0bb85341cd80/1