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* keeping track of sent emails in org?
@ 2008-10-26 17:31 Bill White
  2008-10-27 14:20 ` Sebastian Rose
  2008-10-28 17:58 ` Carsten Dominik
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 39+ messages in thread
From: Bill White @ 2008-10-26 17:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Emacs-orgmode

Hi all -

I'm looking into porting my planner/muse/gnus infrastructure to org.
One indispensible bit of code in my current system writes a gnus message
link in the current day's planner file every time I send a message from
gnus.  It uses Sacha Chua's sacha/planner-gnus-track-sent method here:

http://sachachua.com/notebook/wiki/2006.08.10.php#anchor-3
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.wiki.general/6017

Has someone already written something like this for org?  Perhaps a
remember-like mechanism that writes a link to, say, Email.org?  Perhaps
messages could be filed under date headlines:

* Sunday, October 26, 2008
** message 1 recipient:subject
[link] (or contents?)
** message 2 recipient:subject
[link] (or contents?)

or somesuch.

Thanks for any thoughts about this -

bw
-- 
Bill White . billw@wolfram.com . http://members.wolfram.com/billw
"No ma'am, we're musicians."

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* RE: keeping track of sent emails in org?
@ 2008-10-28 20:37 Sullivan, Gregory (US SSA)
  2008-10-29  9:38 ` Pete Phillips
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 39+ messages in thread
From: Sullivan, Gregory (US SSA) @ 2008-10-28 20:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik, Bill White; +Cc: Emacs-orgmode

Much of what I need to do is in some way related to email messages I
have received.  So, to the extent that org is my repository of things I
have to do and notes related to those things, links to related email
messages would be very useful.

--Greg

--
Gregory T. Sullivan, Ph.D.
BAE Systems Advanced Information Technologies
6 New England Executive Park, Burlington, MA 01803
781-262-4553 (office),  978-430-3461 (cell)
gregory.sullivan@baesystems.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: emacs-orgmode-bounces+gregory.sullivan=baesystems.com@gnu.org
[mailto:emacs-orgmode-bounces+gregory.sullivan=baesystems.com@gnu.org]
On Behalf Of Carsten Dominik
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:58 PM
To: Bill White
Cc: Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] keeping track of sent emails in org?

Hi,

I think there are interesting ideas coming up in this tasks, in  
particular the question if message IDs can be used to find articles in  
gnus, even if they have been moved around.  I am not sure if this  
questions has been fully answered, but I have not read the thread  
carefully enough yet, and certainly not tried Michaels code.

Right now I would like to take a little step back and understand  
better what the original poster is trying to do.

I can see that in an Emacs/Planner environment it makes sense to  
create links to sent emails on the days page.  The reason for this is  
that the planner day page is not only used for listing the planned  
tasks for the day, but also as a way of creating a daily journal.   
Sacha Chua's blog shows that she is using it just like that, and I  
think this is one of te unique and great features of planner.

However, the basic setup of Org is different.  There is no equivalent  
of a daily page.  The agenda views created by Org are dynamic and list  
tasks, and the tasks disappear when they are done.  Yes, you can look  
at the achievements of a day by checking closed tasks and log  
messages, but still this is no equivalent to the planner day pages  
which is a document that can be edited and preserved for the future.

Maybe you can create something similar with Org, but I think it is not  
straight forward.

On the other hand, every decent email program does have a SENT folder,  
and an easy way to list the emails sent on a specific date.

To me it seems that instead of creating a sequential list of links to  
emails for each day, it would be more interesting to create a way to  
collect links relating to a project or a task in the outline node of  
the project, or maybe in an attachment file of the project (if the  
list of emails is long).

Just my 5 cents.

- Carsten




On Oct 26, 2008, at 6:31 PM, Bill White wrote:

> Hi all -
>
> I'm looking into porting my planner/muse/gnus infrastructure to org.
> One indispensible bit of code in my current system writes a gnus  
> message
> link in the current day's planner file every time I send a message  
> from
> gnus.  It uses Sacha Chua's sacha/planner-gnus-track-sent method here:
>
> http://sachachua.com/notebook/wiki/2006.08.10.php#anchor-3
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.wiki.general/6017
>
> Has someone already written something like this for org?  Perhaps a
> remember-like mechanism that writes a link to, say, Email.org?   
> Perhaps
> messages could be filed under date headlines:
>
> * Sunday, October 26, 2008
> ** message 1 recipient:subject
> [link] (or contents?)
> ** message 2 recipient:subject
> [link] (or contents?)
>
> or somesuch.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts about this -
>
> bw
> -- 
> Bill White . billw@wolfram.com . http://members.wolfram.com/billw
> "No ma'am, we're musicians."
>
>
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2008-10-26 17:31 keeping track of sent emails in org? Bill White
2008-10-27 14:20 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-27 15:01   ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-27 18:11     ` Eric Schulte
2008-10-27 21:17       ` Bill White
2008-10-27 21:31         ` Chris McMahan
2008-10-27 21:35         ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-27 21:45           ` Richard Riley
2008-10-27 21:49           ` Bill White
2008-10-27 21:59             ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-27 22:43               ` Bill White
2008-10-27 23:12           ` Michael Ekstrand
2008-10-28  1:35             ` Michael Ekstrand
2008-11-03 11:18               ` Carsten Dominik
2008-11-03 13:37                 ` Michael Ekstrand
2008-10-29  8:56         ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-29 12:21           ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-29 11:27             ` Pete Phillips
2008-10-29 12:37               ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-29 13:07                 ` Georg C. F. Greve
2008-10-29 15:06                   ` Christopher Suckling
2008-10-29 17:41                 ` Ross Patterson
2008-10-29 14:08           ` Mykola Nikishov
2008-10-29 15:17           ` Bernt Hansen
2008-10-29 15:44             ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-29 15:47               ` Bernt Hansen
2008-10-29 16:08               ` Bernt Hansen
2008-10-29 17:39                 ` Ross Patterson
2008-10-29 18:03                   ` Bernt Hansen
2008-10-29 18:08                     ` Ross Patterson
2008-10-27 21:06     ` Bill White
2008-10-28 17:58 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-28 18:46   ` Ross Patterson
2008-10-28 19:14     ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-28 19:19       ` Ross Patterson
2008-10-29  8:17     ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-28 20:14   ` Bill White
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2008-10-28 20:37 Sullivan, Gregory (US SSA)
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