Hi David, Thanks for the kind words, and for sharing your tricks with us. It's to get feedback on some actual use of GTG.
Have a nice day, Bertrand On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:52 PM, David Coeurjolly <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi GTG users, > > I'm definitely a GTG fan and I would like to share with you the tweaks I > use to interact with GTG. I just would like to mention first that I'm a > newbie in Python programming (but a quite experienced script kidder;)) > > *Level 1: change the gtg_new_task CLI* > I loved a lot the CLI of Task (from todo.sh) so I have rewritten the > tg_new_task in order to take in arguments the subject and the text of > the brand new task and create it with the fantastic GTG DBUS interface > "new_task()". > (TODO: handle and parse the dates and tags). Hence with a single command > line, I can create the skeleton of a task. > > *Level 2: Email gateway" > It is an interesting but very complex feature in Chandler: I would like > to create a task with sending a message to a specific Inbox or with > specific Subject prefix keyword. > > To do that with Thunderbird, I have created a Message Filter that move > the corresponding message to a specific folder. Then I use the "mailbox > alert" TB extension to execute a command line upon new message > arrival... and in fact I use the above GTG CLI to create a new task with > the message subject as task title ;) > > Using these techniques (well.. quite harebrained I have to admit), I can > create tasks on my smartphone (sending emails) when I'm out of my > office. When I'm back, TB filters the new messages and creates the > correspondings tasks. > TODO: with a better CLI parser, I could also specify due dates and tags > parsing the email subject... > > If you are interested, I can send you the new gtg_new_task but the > modifications are trivial... > > By the way, I also use the HTML export to get my task list on my iphone > (via a webserver) but the process is not great. I would love to update > the Export plugin to periodically export the task list to a TXT or HTML > file... > > - > Dav > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Bertrand Rousseau _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
