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From: Marvin Doyley <marvinpas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Sending TODO items automatically to a specified email address
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:08:39 -0500
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To: Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr>
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Thanks,
Bastien

By the way I use Mac mail, hopefully this shouldn't be a problem

Cheers
M

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On Feb 22, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr> wrote:

> Hi Marvin,
>
> Marvin Doyley <marvinpas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Does anybody know how to send TODO as email attachment. What would be
>> nice is if the TODO item is in the message and the text below it is
>> an attachment. Basically, this is how I remind myself of things that
>> I need to get done.
>
> The first step is to export selected entries to text files:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (defun org-export-headings-to-ascii (&optional match scope)
>  "Export headings from the current buffer to ascii files."
>  (interactive)
>  (org-map-entries
>   (lambda ()
>     (org-mark-subtree)
>     (let ((head (org-get-heading))
>       (beg (point))
>       (end (org-end-of-subtree)))
>       (org-export-region-as-ascii beg end t (get-buffer-create head))
>       (with-current-buffer
>       (get-buffer-create head)
>     (write-file
>      (concat (replace-regexp-in-string " " "_" head) ".txt")))))
>   ;; see org-map-entries docstring
>   match scope))
> #+end_src
>
> Then to attach the files, which depends on what MUA you use.
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Bastien