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From: Vagn Johansen <gonz808@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Mails with icalendar appointments
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Andreas Amann <a.amann@ucc.ie> writes:

> I get quite a few emails in icalendar format which are requests for
> appointments. To avoid unnecessary distraction, I would like to quickly
> convert them into org-mode TODO list items. What is the recommended way
> to do this? Can the org-capture framework be used for this?
>
> I use notmuch to access email, and org-notmuch.el as capture interface
> but I guess the same problem occurs for users of gnus or other email
> clients. Do solutions exist for them?

For gnus I wrote this to import from text/calendar attachments

  http://ozymandias.dk/emacs/emacs.html#org-import-calendar

It a automatically stores an org snippet to the ring. So most of the
time I can use press my remember keybinding and yank.

-- 
Vagn Johansen