From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Dunbar Subject: orgmode as a service Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:39:54 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54763) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCWi3-0000Bw-TK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:45:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCWhx-0006ks-Cb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:45:15 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39956) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCWhx-0006ij-3Z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:45:09 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SCWhu-0007kg-DB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:45:07 +0200 Received: from outbound.plexus.com ([64.215.193.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:45:06 +0200 Received: from brian.dunbar by outbound.plexus.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:45:06 +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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I'm orgmode newbie. Before I reinvent a wheel, going to ask if this has already been done: 'orgmode as a service'. Or perhaps it doesn't need to be done and I'm tilting at yet another windmill. Comments welcome. Assume a workgroup of people - they use emacs / orgmode. Mostly Linux and OS X, but there might be a weirdo or two still using Solaris. They get TODOs from people who do -not- use emacs: managers, project managers, Windows users, end users ... like that. The input arrives (mostly) via email. 'Attend Meeting Foo at 08:00 p.m.' 'Fix Bug umptyfratz this week'. orgmode user manually inputs this data into emacs. I had a few free minutes and thought 'there must be a better way': 20 minutes a day to organize tasks * Y people on a team = a lot of wasted hours. Is there a programatic method already coded up to take bits delivered to a server, bang out the appropriate .org file and deliver it to the orgmode user? Assume data > orgmodeservice@myhost.company.com orgmodeservice would be a daemon (perl, lisp, whatever) that mangles the data. # data user: Adele@company.com what: Task - record new hit single when: June 01, 2012 becomes adele.org > adele's desktop #adele.org * TODO Record new hit single <2012-06-01 Fri> Am I Don Quixote slaying phantom dragons? Brian Dunbar brian.dunbar@gmail.com