On mar, mag 20, 2025 at 08:19 Kristoffer Balintona <krisbalint...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi org community,
>
> How have users of the org and Emacs community set up org-agenda and
> org-capture with their Emacs email configuration? In the years I've used
> notmuch and org-agenda, I've mostly relied on good email hygiene to keep
> my inboxes from overflowing with irrelevant or unimportant emails.
> Still, I haven't found a way not to use my email inboxes themselves to
> keep track of tasks to a degree. Ideally, separate my inbox from my task
> management, delegating org-agenda for that task.
>
> 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 threads develop in a way that makes todos tied to that thread outdated.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 suppose this inquiry is chiefly directed at those who work on projects
> involving team members or clients.
>
> I hope that explanation communicates my difficulties sufficiently. I
> thought I'd ask the org community in case anyone has found a workflow
> they're happy with.
Hi all,
i use a simple and quite effortless setup which is ok with me:
- mails are read in gnus
- mailing lists have rule to be delivered in folder (as i can read them quite
async)
- other mails all goes to inbox
- mine zero inbox meens all emails are read and not truly empty inbox (here
gnus is a master not showing read mails by default)
- if i have to process a mail later i make a link in org agenda to the message
with mail subject
- if i really have to notice a mail i can mark to stay visible in gnus (still
bad practice but for double check)
- periodically (usually onece a year) i move mail in year named folder
- if i process a mail via agenda and is not linked anymore in gnus (moved to
year folder) means i left it for too long time and i can find it searching via
subject (usually rare)
- inbox with circa one year of mail is not that heavy to be managed
- year division + search capabilities of mail clients is usually enough to find
everything and it is no big effort to mantain
CAPTURE TEMPLATE FOR ORG:
("m" "TODO from Mail" entry (file+headline "~/org_todo/notes.org" "Mail Tasks")
"* TODO %? %a\nSCHEDULED: %t
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED: %U
:END:
:LOGBOOK:"
:prepend t :empty-lines 1)
Cheers
Matteo
