From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Riley Subject: Re: Some struggles of mine with org-mode Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:06:15 +0000 Message-ID: References: <83mx8uxpb1.fsf@gmail.com> <871uq6f15w.fsf@gmx.com> Reply-To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33133) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rv5MJ-0008HI-Ms for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:06:47 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rv5MD-0000au-Qw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:06:43 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35333) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rv5MD-0000aq-KW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:06:37 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rv5MC-0003TF-3l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:06:36 +0100 Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:06:36 +0100 Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:06:36 +0100 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 Eric Schulte 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 > | --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.