From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Manish Subject: Re: New user questions Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:48:10 +0530 Message-ID: References: <48016AB1.2020009@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JktfT-0006Mx-32 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:18:15 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JktfQ-0006Je-UM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:18:13 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JktfQ-0006JG-Nc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:18:12 -0400 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.185]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JktfQ-0000BK-JX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:18:12 -0400 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id a20so372380tia.10 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:18:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <48016AB1.2020009@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Alan E. Davis" Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I have alot of questions about org-mode. I have been working with it for a > couple of weeks, and it's helped me in many ways. Welcome to org-mode. > Here's the first. > > I have lots of emails on various topics that I would like to harvest into > work files, and develop into blog postings, little essays and the like. Is > org-mode a useful way to link together a bunch of emails? I use gmail. Any > other suggestions? > Org-mode does allow linking to emails provided you use a mail client integrated with Emacs (gnus, vm, etc.) You could use offlineimap or pop to get mail from gmail into local maildir/mbox, access the mail using gnus or VM or something inside Emacs and then you could link to your emails (even search using mairix). I tried it but I am on a pseudo OS (Cygwin) and many parts did not work or were to flaky for a regular use so I had to abandon it. And some people do use org to blog and publish websites even. I suggest baby steps. -- Manish