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Re: [O] email -> TODO items?
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Suvayu Ali |
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Re: [O] email -> TODO items? |
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Sun, 5 Jan 2014 21:48:10 +0100 |
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On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 09:46:58AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote:
> I've been using org-mode for a few years, but only for a few limited
> purposes. I keep TODO lists for work-related stuff, and I compose blog
> posts which I then export to HTML, cut from the browser and paste into
> Blogger.
>
> Sometimes it's much quicker and easier to email myself notes on things
> to do. I'd like to be able to import individual email messages, and
> turn them into TODO items in one of my .org files. I use half a dozen
> email clients, including mutt, which lets me easily pipe a message to
> a script. I figured I could write something that would parse the
> message and add a line to a .org file like:
>
> * TODO [[file:<subject'>.org][<subject>]]
>
> Then it would create the <subject'>.org file, insert a standard
> preamble I use, and put the body of the email into that
> file. (<subject'> is a filename-safe version of the message's subject
> line.)
>
> There are one or two complications, like checking for duplicate file
> names, etc., but on the whole, it seems pretty straightforward. I
> could do this in Perl relatively quickly. I'm not an elisp guy, but I
> imagine there would be a way to pipe the message to emacsclient (or a
> temp file) and do it with a macro.
>
> Does something like this already exist? Or is there an easier way?
Take a look at debbugs-org, available on ELPA.
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