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From: Bill Jarrold <wjarrold@ucdavis.edu>
Subject: automatically convert email inbox into TODO's?
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:16:00 -0800
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Hi,

Emails in ones inbox can be viewed as TODO's.  org-mode and its agenda =
mech are great for managing to do's.  Thus, does anyone have experience =
with automatic conversion of emails into TODO's?

Email is a pain because I do not know of any way to associate arbitrary =
levels of priorities to my email.  If I can automatically convert my =
email inbox into a set of TODO's maybe I can solve this problem.  With =
org-mode and the agenda mechanism I suspect I have a lot of flexibility =
with assigning priorities  and all sorts of categories....

( I tend to have 1000's of messages in my inbox and the ordering is a =
mess.  As I come up to speed on org mode I have hope that it can handle =
1000's of tasks well.  )

Any pre-existing solutions for this?  Any comments on the utility of =
this?=20

Thanks,

Bill=