Kristoffer Balintona <krisbalint...@gmail.com> writes: > My main problem with trying to use org-agenda for all tasks created from > emails is that the state and relevance of those emails may change > without the todos tied to them changing (unless I update it myself). In > other words, although capturing emails as todos (e.g. create a todo > which has an org link pointing to a given email) is easy enough, email > threads develop in a way that makes todos tied to that thread outdated. > The result is todos which are no longer necessary, todos scheduled for > dates that have already shifted, and so on.
I don't have any cure-all workflow for this, but I can think of a feature that would help facilitate it: e-mail backlinks. I.e., for the message at point, I want to see at a glance if it has been linked to from Org-mode agenda files, and to jump at a keystroke to all the places where those links are found. I mainly want this to remember if I've already captured a message in a note. But it would also make it easier to clean up stale TODOs as one goes through one's e-mail threads. I just hacked myself a very rough proof-of-concept of such a backlink feature for the mu4e client. But perhaps someone knows of existing solutions, and for other clients as well? Yours, Christian
