Christian Moe <m...@christianmoe.com> writes: > 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 threads develop in a way that makes todos tied to that thread outdated.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?
I've been using mu4e for a while now, but in my gnus email days I used gnorb, and I dearly miss those features in my current workflow... https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/gnorb.html Thanks, -- Rémi
