From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: org-mode and Gnus integration Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 13:41:15 +0200 Message-ID: <2afa676e03f96af39cb484e5a9782b42@science.uva.nl> References: <87bqgo98r7.fsf@memetrics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HnvWw-0002t2-QS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 07:49:26 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HnvWv-0002sS-7a for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 07:49:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HnvWv-0002sP-3E for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 07:49:25 -0400 Received: from korteweg.uva.nl ([146.50.98.70]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HnvP2-0005q2-OH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 07:41:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87bqgo98r7.fsf@memetrics.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Alain Picard Cc: emacs-orgmode 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) > ================================================================ > > > > -- > Please read about why Top Posting > is evil at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting > and http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/usenet/guide/faq_topp.html > > Please read about why HTML in email is evil at: > http://www.birdhouse.org/etc/evilmail.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > > -- Carsten Dominik Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek" Universiteit van Amsterdam Kruislaan 403 NL-1098SJ Amsterdam phone: +31 20 525 7477