Re: [O] email - TODO items?
Nick Dokos ndo...@gmail.com writes: Brett Viren b...@bnl.gov writes: Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com writes: I use half a dozen email clients, including mutt, which lets me easily pipe a message to a script. The need to support multiple clients may rule out my suggestion but capturing a TODO or a note while visiting a GNUS message and thus preserving the link back to the article that spawned my task/idea is fantastically useful. In your pipe scheme maybe there is some way you can preserve this link back. Thanks, Brett. I've added Gnus to my repertoire, but I'm still just learning the ropes on that. My current breakdown is: GMail - GMail Web reader IMAP - Gnus, Thunderbird, dedicated Web mail app local MH folders - Mutt, MH There were a few discussions about mutt integration with org some years back. In particular http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/18950 describes an implementation (or maybe two) of a mutt link type. Searching the ML with mutt links will uncover a few more such discussions. aitor aitors2...@gmail.com writes: If you are using mutt, check out this link: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/02/integrating_Mutt_with_Org-mode/ Thanks Nick and aitor. I'm looking into these mutt/org-mode integration efforts. Looks like what I want may already exist, or at least major pieces of it. Thanks all! -pd
Re: [O] email - TODO items?
* Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com wrote: Sometimes it's much quicker and easier to email myself notes on things to do. Using email for a todo management system has many disadvantages. I read a *lot* about those attempts. For the purpose you were mentioning, I am using MobileOrg (Android) to quickly capture notes about todos. This way, I get those todos in my inbox.org and refile them every other day. -- mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML to Org-mode: get Memacs from https://github.com/novoid/Memacs https://github.com/novoid/extract_pdf_annotations_to_orgmode + more on github
Re: [O] email - TODO items?
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014, at 05:51 AM, Karl Voit wrote: * Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com wrote: Sometimes it's much quicker and easier to email myself notes on things to do. Using email for a todo management system has many disadvantages. I read a *lot* about those attempts. For the purpose you were mentioning, I am using MobileOrg (Android) to quickly capture notes about todos. This way, I get those todos in my inbox.org and refile them every other day. Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look into them. Strictly speaking, these are not TODO items, but ideas and notes for blog posts I may want to write. The email approach has been ok, but since I typically expand on these short notes in org-mode, it would be useful to be able to import them directly. But I'll certainly look at these alternatives. Thanks! -pd -- Peter Davis www.techcurmudgeon.com
Re: [O] email - TODO items?
Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com writes: I use half a dozen email clients, including mutt, which lets me easily pipe a message to a script. The need to support multiple clients may rule out my suggestion but capturing a TODO or a note while visiting a GNUS message and thus preserving the link back to the article that spawned my task/idea is fantastically useful. In your pipe scheme maybe there is some way you can preserve this link back. -Brett. pgpeqX1xVTzBZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [O] email - TODO items?
Brett Viren b...@bnl.gov writes: Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com writes: I use half a dozen email clients, including mutt, which lets me easily pipe a message to a script. The need to support multiple clients may rule out my suggestion but capturing a TODO or a note while visiting a GNUS message and thus preserving the link back to the article that spawned my task/idea is fantastically useful. In your pipe scheme maybe there is some way you can preserve this link back. There were a few discussions about mutt integration with org some years back. In particular http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/18950 describes an implementation (or maybe two) of a mutt link type. Searching the ML with mutt links will uncover a few more such discussions. -- Nick
Re: [O] email - TODO items?
... I use half a dozen email clients, including mutt, which lets me easily pipe a message to a script. If you are using mutt, check out this link: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/02/integrating_Mutt_with_Org-mode/ best, aitor
Re: [O] email - TODO items?
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 09:46:58AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: I've been using org-mode for a few years, but only for a few limited purposes. I keep TODO lists for work-related stuff, and I compose blog posts which I then export to HTML, cut from the browser and paste into Blogger. Sometimes it's much quicker and easier to email myself notes on things to do. I'd like to be able to import individual email messages, and turn them into TODO items in one of my .org files. I use half a dozen email clients, including mutt, which lets me easily pipe a message to a script. I figured I could write something that would parse the message and add a line to a .org file like: * TODO [[file:subject'.org][subject]] Then it would create the subject'.org file, insert a standard preamble I use, and put the body of the email into that file. (subject' is a filename-safe version of the message's subject line.) There are one or two complications, like checking for duplicate file names, etc., but on the whole, it seems pretty straightforward. I could do this in Perl relatively quickly. I'm not an elisp guy, but I imagine there would be a way to pipe the message to emacsclient (or a temp file) and do it with a macro. Does something like this already exist? Or is there an easier way? Take a look at debbugs-org, available on ELPA. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
Re: [O] email - TODO items?
Maybe you could use some online service like Remember the Milk that offers an rss-feed for your todos, and use org-feed to pull them in to an org file. you can send emails to RTM of tasks. org-feed already handles the file duplication issue. another option might be: https://zapier.com/zapbook/email/google-tasks/ there seem to be lots of options like this. John --- John Kitchin Associate Professor Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com wrote: I've been using org-mode for a few years, but only for a few limited purposes. I keep TODO lists for work-related stuff, and I compose blog posts which I then export to HTML, cut from the browser and paste into Blogger. Sometimes it's much quicker and easier to email myself notes on things to do. I'd like to be able to import individual email messages, and turn them into TODO items in one of my .org files. I use half a dozen email clients, including mutt, which lets me easily pipe a message to a script. I figured I could write something that would parse the message and add a line to a .org file like: * TODO [[file:subject'.org][subject]] Then it would create the subject'.org file, insert a standard preamble I use, and put the body of the email into that file. (subject' is a filename-safe version of the message's subject line.) There are one or two complications, like checking for duplicate file names, etc., but on the whole, it seems pretty straightforward. I could do this in Perl relatively quickly. I'm not an elisp guy, but I imagine there would be a way to pipe the message to emacsclient (or a temp file) and do it with a macro. Does something like this already exist? Or is there an easier way? Thanks very much! -pd -- Peter Davis The Tech Curmudgeon www.techcurmudgeon.com
