Re: Some struggles of mine with org-mode

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com>]

Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com> writes:

>>      
>>      - Email.  Some very elegant (in complicated ways) solutions have
>>      been generated, but all I need it simple text-based email.  I
>>      would be willing to install sendmail or postfix, if need be, but
>>      I don't really wish to send html based email.  See the next item.
>
> Limiting to the one aspect of this email towards which I may have
> something useful to contribute.  One option for text email is to use
> org-mime from contrib/lisp/org-mime.el and then structure a subtree as
> follows...
>
> ,----
> | * send this to eric
> |   :PROPERTIES:
> |   :mail_to:  eric.schulte@foo.bar
> |   :END:
> | 
> | Here is an Org-mode email which will be sent to me.
> | 
> | | 1 |
> | | 2 |
> | | 3 |
> | | 4 |
> | 
> | 
> `----
>
> calling org-mime-subtree from within that subtree will result in a
> message buffer holding the following (modulo your gnus/message setup)
>
> ,----
> | To: eric.schulte@foo.bar
> | Subject: send this to eric
> | X-Draft-From: ("org-mode" 2692)
> | From: Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@foo.bar>
> | --text follows this line--
> | Here is an Org-mode email which will be sent to me.
> | 
> | | 1 |
> | | 2 |
> | | 3 |
> | | 4 |
> `----
>
> By default the resulting email is text generated using (I believe)
> org-export-as-org.
>
> [...]
>
>>      One thing I really like about Org-mode is the ability to keep a
>>      large number of kinds of information straight in various
>>      ways---either in separate files, or for related topics, in
>>      different headlines of the same file.  I need all of these files
>>      to be searched.  The best searching seems to reside in the agenda
>>      interface.  But it seems illogical, to me, to constrain searching
>>      to the same set of files as for an Agenda, except if I am only
>>      searching things I am currently keeping on todo lists.  I want a
>>      large subset of *.org files open for searches, but I may want to
>>      limit the number of files processed for a daily or weekly agenda
>>      view.
>
> The desire to separate searching from agenda views makes perfect sense
> to me.  I've never used the searching features of Org-mode myself.  I
> suppose I use rgrep when digging through my Org-mode ~/notes/recipes.
>
> Cheers,

On the subject I too tried org-contacts and found it novel but not
really a replacement for bbdb. I tried gnus sync with google contacts
too but that was too slow. I suspect the best way to handle this is to
simply use a google to bbdb importer and continue to use bbdb for
contact lookups as its nicely integrated already (well, in gnus it is)
and seems fast enough.