From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus: Thread notes? Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:21:33 +0200 Message-ID: <874lr3pz2q.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87o9pc359b.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507861431 31933 195.159.176.226 (13 Oct 2017 02:23:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 02:23:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 13 04:23:45 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e2pdX-0007Ik-Mi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:23:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48151 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2pdd-0004jK-Ed for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:23:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55622) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2pd9-0004j4-OU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:23:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2pd4-0007SX-Qs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=47583 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2pd4-0007Rp-K1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:23:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e2pcu-0002eR-6J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:23:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:vF2e+wiNmUAXbGHiKIScss447cc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114567 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Hi, > > do you know the problem that after some time, you have forgotten which > messages of a thread were important, and what you wanted to do after > some consent has been made? > > I would like a simple feature in Gnus that could be described as "Thread > notes": when I click on a message, a file (maybe org) opens, maybe with > a link back to that message (the file itself would be attached to the > thread) where you could store some notes about the thread. When you > later need to reconsider that thread, that file would serve as a summary > of the aspects that were important to you, with links to the messages > and text passages, so you spare the time to re-read the whole thread and > find the passages yourself. > > Is something like that already possible, with means of Gnus or Org, that > is similarly convenient? I'm not a heavy org-mode user, so I would > prefer a solution that is build up on Gnus instead of Org. > > Or do people have other interesting workflows that are worth sharing > helping with that kind of problem? I'll add a brief shameless plug for my package Gnorb (in Elpa) which does something like this. Basically you can attach Gnus messages to an Org heading (using the registry), and jump from the heading to an ephemeral group holding all the related messages. Plus a bunch of other stuff.