On 2012-03-21, Kyle Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: > Basically, in going through mail I'll find something I should reply > to, but maybe not immediately. What I've been doing is adding a > message label of "todo_{X}_{Y}" where X/Y may be a calendar date. > Each day I come into the office, I can create a virtual folder of > "todo_{today}", and see what I've put off and am on the hook for (at > this point I'm not too concerned about year). A minor functionality
I do something similar but more sophisticated. For many years I've been labelling messages that need attention with "***" (also with "**" and "*", but these are so non-urgent they never get done;-). These get flagged up with red summary lines. Nowadays, I can label messages "***2012-04-03", and VM will convert the label to "***" on the given date. > point is it would be nice to create a virtual folder of labels > matching a regular expression. Agreed. I've almost got to the point of doing this, but still don't have quite enough spare round tuits. > First thing I noticed is that deleting a label from all messages does > not delete that label from the folder (all labels show up as possible > completions). So I've got a growing set of labels. Is it possible to > delete the label from the folder? There's no official API to do this. But in a live folder you can do (unintern label vm-label-obarray) to remove the label from the list that gets stashed when the folder is saved.
