* org-capture and org-link-type for Outlook mail messages on Mac OSX
@ 2012-06-03 10:56 Christopher J. White
2012-06-03 11:16 ` Christopher J. White
2012-06-05 23:00 ` Mike McLean
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christopher J. White @ 2012-06-03 10:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hi Folks,
I thought I'd share a bit of hacking I've been doing over the last
couple days.
I had 2 basic needs:
* create a TODO entry associated with an email message
* include a clickable link back to that message in the entry
For work email I use Outlook on a Mac. After some digging, I managed to
cobble together an AppleScript with some glue lisp that solves both of
the above.
Testing is minimal at this point, but it works for me so, I thought I'd
share it here first, then if folks think appropriate, I can post it up
on the worg.
I have hopes to extend support to Thunderbird (which I use for personal
email), but there appears to be very limited AppleScript support, so
does not look promising.
...cj
-- OutlookToEmacsOrg
--
-- This script uses org-protocol to capture the currently selected
message in outlook
-- as an Org item. The item creates a link of type 'mac-outlook' with
the message ID
-- within Outlook that can later be used by mdfind to find that message.
--
-- If more than one message is selected, only the first message is
used. If no message
-- is selected, the script does nothing.
--
-- The Title passed to org-protocol is formatted as "[Sender] Subject",
but could
-- easily be modifed as below to any text.
--
-- See http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.html for details
about
-- how org-protocol works.
--
-- This script assumes emacsclient is available via the Carbon Emacs
application, but
-- can be changed via the emacsclientBinary below.
--
-- Script Installation for Outlook
-- 1. Startup AppleScript Editor
-- 2. Paste this script into a new file
-- 3. Save as "OutlookToEmacsOrg" of file type "Script Bundle" in the
directory:
-- /Users/<you>/Library/Application
Support/Microsoft/Office/Outlook Script Menu Items
-- 4. Restart Outlook, and this should show up in the Script menu (the
squiggly next to Help)
--
-- You probably also assign a shortcut via System Preferences.
--
-- Emacs mac-outlook link support, put the following in your .emacs:
--
-- (org-add-link-type "mac-outlook" 'org-mac-outlook-open)
--
-- (defun org-mac-outlook-open (msgid)
-- "Open a message in outlook"
-- (shell-command (format "open \"`mdfind
com_microsoft_outlook_recordID==%s`\"" msgid)))
--
-- Tested on Mac OS X 10.7.3, Emacs 23.4.2, Org 7.8.03, Outlook for Mac 2011
--
-- Special thanks to Lutz Meyer / LuMe96(at)gmail.com -- I got the critical
-- pieces of applescript from OutlookToThings.scpt written by Lutz.
property emacsclientBinary :
"/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient"
on urlencode(plaintext)
set enctext to do shell script "python -c 'import sys, urllib;
print urllib.quote(sys.argv[1])' " & quoted form of plaintext
return enctext
end urlencode
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
set msgCount to count current messages
if (msgCount < 1) then
return
end if
set myMessage to (the first item of (get current messages))
set myID to id of myMessage as string
set mySubject to subject of myMessage
set mySender to sender of myMessage
set mySenderName to name of mySender
set myTitle to "[" & mySenderName & "] " & mySubject
set myCmd to emacsclientBinary & " \"org-protocol:/capture:/eo"
set myCmd to myCmd & "/mac-outlook:" & myID
set myCmd to myCmd & "/" & (my urlencode(myTitle))
set myCmd to myCmd & "\""
--display dialog myCmd
tell application "Emacs"
activate
end tell
do shell script myCmd
set the clipboard to myCmd
end tell
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* Re: org-capture and org-link-type for Outlook mail messages on Mac OSX
2012-06-03 10:56 org-capture and org-link-type for Outlook mail messages on Mac OSX Christopher J. White
@ 2012-06-03 11:16 ` Christopher J. White
2012-06-05 23:00 ` Mike McLean
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christopher J. White @ 2012-06-03 11:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Ok -- just realized I had left in the selection of a custom
org-capture-template which will likely not be in anyone else's config,
so I made the org-capture-template configurable, and set to nil by default.
Modified script below..
...cj
-- OutlookToEmacsOrg
--
-- This script uses org-protocol to capture the currently selected
message in outlook
-- as an Org item. The item creates a link of type 'mac-outlook' with
the message ID
-- within Outlook that can later be used by mdfind to find that message.
--
-- If more than one message is selected, only the first message is used.
If no message
-- is selected, the script does nothing.
--
-- The Title passed to org-protocol is formatted as "[Sender] Subject",
but could
-- easily be modifed as below to any text.
--
-- See http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.html for details
about
-- how org-protocol works.
--
-- This script assumes emacsclient is available via the Carbon Emacs
application, but
-- can be changed via the emacsclientBinary below.
--
-- Script Installation for Outlook
-- 1. Startup AppleScript Editor
-- 2. Paste this script into a new file
-- 3. Save as "OutlookToEmacsOrg" of file type "Script Bundle" in the
directory:
-- /Users/<you>/Library/Application
Support/Microsoft/Office/Outlook Script Menu Items
-- 4. Restart Outlook, and this should show up in the Script menu (the
squiggly next to Help)
--
-- You probably also assign a shortcut via System Preferences.
--
-- Emacs mac-outlook link support, put the following in your .emacs:
--
-- (org-add-link-type "mac-outlook" 'org-mac-outlook-open)
--
-- (defun org-mac-outlook-open (msgid)
-- "Open a message in outlook"
-- (shell-command (format "open \"`mdfind
com_microsoft_outlook_recordID==%s`\"" msgid)))
--
-- Tested on Mac OS X 10.7.3, Emacs 23.4.2, Org 7.8.03, Outlook for Mac 2011
--
-- Special thanks to Lutz Meyer / LuMe96(at)gmail.com -- I got the critical
-- pieces of applescript from OutlookToThings.scpt written by Lutz.
property emacsclientBinary :
"/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient"
-- Set to the empty string to use the default capture template, or fill
-- in the letter code from org-capture-templates
property orgCaptureTemplate : ""
--property orgCaptureTemplate : "x"
on urlencode(plaintext)
set enctext to do shell script "python -c 'import sys, urllib; print
urllib.quote(sys.argv[1])' " & quoted form of plaintext
return enctext
end urlencode
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
set msgCount to count current messages
if (msgCount < 1) then
return
end if
set myMessage to (the first item of (get current messages))
set myID to id of myMessage as string
set mySubject to subject of myMessage
set mySender to sender of myMessage
set mySenderName to name of mySender
set myTitle to "[" & mySenderName & "] " & mySubject
set myCmd to emacsclientBinary & " \"org-protocol:/capture:"
if (length of orgCaptureTemplate > 0) then
set myCmd to myCmd & "/" & orgCaptureTemplate
end if
set myCmd to myCmd & "/mac-outlook:" & myID
set myCmd to myCmd & "/" & (my urlencode(myTitle))
set myCmd to myCmd & "\""
--display dialog myCmd
tell application "Emacs"
activate
end tell
do shell script myCmd
set the clipboard to myCmd
end tell
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* Re: org-capture and org-link-type for Outlook mail messages on Mac OSX
2012-06-03 10:56 org-capture and org-link-type for Outlook mail messages on Mac OSX Christopher J. White
2012-06-03 11:16 ` Christopher J. White
@ 2012-06-05 23:00 ` Mike McLean
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mike McLean @ 2012-06-05 23:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: orgmode; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
On Jun 3, 2012, at 6:56 AM, Christopher J. White wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I thought I'd share a bit of hacking I've been doing over the last couple days.
>
> I had 2 basic needs:
> * create a TODO entry associated with an email message
> * include a clickable link back to that message in the entry
>
> For work email I use Outlook on a Mac. After some digging, I managed to cobble together an AppleScript with some glue lisp that solves both of the above.
Well, wow. I've had “write an Outlook / Org integration” on my TODO list for too long. I too use Outlook for Mac at work and will certainly be testing this over the next few days. Thank you!
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