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From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: email -> TODO items?
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 21:48:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140105204810.GO29741@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140105144652.GF385@pfdstudio-air.home>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-05 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-05 14:46 email -> TODO items? Peter Davis
2014-01-05 20:48 ` Suvayu Ali [this message]
2014-01-05 21:50 ` John Kitchin
2014-01-06 10:51 ` Karl Voit
2014-01-06 12:32   ` Peter Davis
2014-01-06 19:00 ` Brett Viren
2014-01-07  4:49   ` Nick Dokos
2014-01-13 16:35     ` Peter Davis
2014-01-07  6:47 ` aitor

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