Recent improvements to my handling of email have helped considerably, but 
have also revealed problems with gmail and project coordination in 
general.  Kent has suggested I look into claws mail, but I'd rather look 
for other workarounds.

You could say that the essence of the problem is that Leo doesn't do email 
;-)  Email is good (not great) for collaboration, but it sucks as a data 
organizer.  Gmail labels can only be applied to entire threads.  My 
unsatisfactory workaround is to mark items that require further action as 
"important" (mark with a star).  This is better than nothing, but only just.

To organize tasks to be done *for myself*, I could copy starred items into 
a personal .leo file.  I could then organize those tasks as usual with 
Leo.  But none of this would easily be available to others.  Alas, sharing 
quickly-changing .leo files is not easy.

Matt and others have been referring to snippets of code in github, and 
that's good, but we still have to manage those snippets, and the projects 
related to those snippets.

Project threads are an attempt to work around these difficulties.  They are 
hardly a cure-all, but imo they are worth a try.  The idea is to devote 
each PT to management-related tasks for a single (shared) project.  The 
first PT will be about installation issues.  This thread will allow Matt 
and I to coordinate our activities.  Anyone else is welcome to join, but a 
PT is *not* the place to report new issues or bugs, even if they are 
related to the subject of the PT.

I hope the idea is clear.  If not, please ask question on *this* thread. 
Your comments, please.

Edward.

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