Re: org-mode and Gnus integration

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Alain Picard <Alain.Picard@memetrics.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-mode and Gnus integration
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 13:41:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2afa676e03f96af39cb484e5a9782b42@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bqgo98r7.fsf@memetrics.com>

I can see that this is useful.  Another way to implement
something would be a remember template.  Would mean a few more keys to 
press, but it would allow you to add a note about what you need to
do, if necessary.

- Carsten

On May 13, 2007, at 15:02, Alain Picard wrote:

>
> Hello all.
>
> I've started trying to use the GTD methodology, and have found
> org-mode absolutely terrific for this purpose.  However I still
> couln't get my mail to work just right (I use Gnus for mail).
> What I'm really missing is a way to add "labels", or "tags" to
> mail messages, so that I can then narrow the mail buffers to only
> those messages matching a tag (e.g. TODO, NEXT, WAITING, etc).
>
> Then I discovered the linking facility; in particular how org-mode
> can link directly to a gnus post, so I figured, since I keep my
> TODOs in an org file anyhow, I might as well keep the list of
> messages requiring actions in there as well, in the form of links.
>
> The following little hack allows to me to file, with 1 keystroke
> (I use ">" for "send to the todo list") as a link into my org file.
>
> To use this, you need an entry somewhere in your
> file (called *org-email-todo-list-buffer*) which will
> match *org-email-todo-tree-header*.
>
>
> I don't know if anyone else will find this useful, or already
> has a better way of handling this sort of thing (I haven't found
> it yet, and I did look).
>
> Ideally, I'd like to be able to maybe select different types of
> tags directly when entering (e.g. maybe "C-u 1 >" --> WAITING
> "C-u 2 >" --> NEXT etc) but I haven't implemented that yet.
> I visit my todo file so often it's not a huge burder to just
> reclassify all the TODOs rapidly in one go.
>
> Any comments will be welcome.
>
>
> snippet below.
> ================================================================
> (defvar *org-email-todo-tree-header* "* Email TODOS")
> (defvar *org-email-todo-list-buffer* "~/org/work.org")
>
> (defun org-insert-email-as-current-todo ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((link (org-store-link nil)))
>     (save-window-excursion
>       (find-file *org-email-todo-list-buffer*)
>       (goto-char (point-min))
>       (let ((point (re-search-forward *org-email-todo-tree-header* 
> (point-max) nil)))
> 	(org-end-of-subtree t)
> 	(insert "\n** TODO -- ")
> 	(insert link))))
>   (message "Saved."))
>
> (define-key gnus-summary-mode-map ">" 
> 'org-insert-email-as-current-todo)
> ================================================================
>
>
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