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From: Alain Picard <Alain.Picard@memetrics.com>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: org-mode and Gnus integration
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 23:02:36 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bqgo98r7.fsf@memetrics.com> (raw)


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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next             reply	other threads:[~2007-05-13 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-13 13:02 Alain Picard [this message]
2007-05-14 13:07 ` org-mode and Gnus integration Alain Picard
2007-05-14 18:16 ` Bastien
2007-05-15 18:31   ` Carsten Dominik
2007-05-16 16:46     ` Bastien
2007-05-16 22:33       ` Alain Picard
2007-05-15 11:41 ` Carsten Dominik

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