From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mikhail Titov Subject: Re: How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment? Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:09:31 -0500 Message-ID: <9q0d3404gc4.fsf@gmx.us> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51564) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SpUOS-0007T6-9j for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:10:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SpUON-0008RS-6b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:10:04 -0400 Received: from mailout-us.gmx.com ([74.208.5.67]:39503) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SpUOM-0008RK-Vh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:09:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: (M.'s message of "Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:45:23 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: M Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" M writes: > So unfortunately I'll have to find a way to integrate as good as possible. > (I had tried to use MS Outlook 2007 for managing tasks for some weeks but I > was missing a lot of features I got used to from org-mode, so I installed > org-mode. > > One example of helpful integration: if I send or get an e-mail which I want > to follow-up on later, I want to track that in org-mode and I want to have a > way to quickly find the original message in Outlook again (to reply or > forward it or whatever), which can be done with hyperlinks. You can set up Gnus if Exchange server is available via IMAP otherwise see Q 3.10 [1]. With Gnus you can easily insert links right to your e-mail. Indeed the ability to bookmark an e-mail is something I would miss without Org mode. [1] http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_397.html#SEC446 > I'm sure there are a lot more useful tricks which can help in daily work, e. > g. a vba macro which copies the path to the currently open word or excel > document into the clipboard or even directly opens org-capture to add some > note or task which is linked to this document... You can use dired to navigate to your word document in the first place and make a link using dired. -- Mikhail