mu4e and tagging

mu4e and tagging

[Colin Yates]

Hi all,

I have read the manual and googled around but I can't find the answer (maybe my terminology is wrong?).

Basically I have a number of email accounts and I want to apply a number of 'tags' to a message (e.g. 'family', 'important', 'urgent' and so on). This let's me then find all 'important' emails very quickly. For this to work I need to apply multiple tags to a single email and apply the same tag to emails across the various accounts.

I have mu4e 'working' so I can pull emails and search across them, but I just can't figure out how to 'tag' them. 'Filing' isn't sufficient as I can only put it in one folder...

I did think about maybe using org-mode and linking to the email as a solution but that is a bit beyond my skills.. I also considered notmuch as well, or even the good old gnus, but they are both new to me.

Thoughts/suggestions?

Thanks!

RE: mu4e and tagging

[Drew Adams]

> Basically I have a number of email accounts and I want to apply a number of
> 'tags' to a message (e.g. 'family', 'important', 'urgent' and so on). This
> let's me then find all 'important' emails very quickly. For this to work I
> need to apply multiple tags to a single email and apply the same tag to
> emails across the various accounts.

Bookmarks with tags?

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#BookmarkTags

Re: mu4e and tagging

[Colin Yates]

On Wednesday, 5 August 2015 15:11:42 UTC+1, Drew Adams  wrote:
> > Basically I have a number of email accounts and I want to apply a number of
> > 'tags' to a message (e.g. 'family', 'important', 'urgent' and so on). This
> > let's me then find all 'important' emails very quickly. For this to work I
> > need to apply multiple tags to a single email and apply the same tag to
> > emails across the various accounts.
> 
> Bookmarks with tags?
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#BookmarkTags

Thanks Drew - I can't see how that fits into the workflow - are you suggesting each tag is a bookmark and then applying that bookmark to the relevant emails?

RE: mu4e and tagging

[Drew Adams]

> > > Basically I have a number of email accounts and I want to
> > > apply a number of 'tags' to a message
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > (e.g. 'family', 'important', 'urgent' and so on).
> > > This let's me then find all 'important' emails very quickly. For this 
> > > to work I need to apply multiple tags to a single email and apply the 
> > > same tag to emails across the various accounts.
> >
> > Bookmarks with tags?
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#BookmarkTags
> 
> Thanks Drew - I can't see how that fits into the workflow - are you
> suggesting each tag is a bookmark and then applying that bookmark
> to the relevant emails?

You said you wanted to apply multiple tags to a given email message.
So you would bookmark a message, and apply whatever tags you wanted
to the bookmark.  The bookmark gives you a way to tag the message.

Anything you can bookmark you can tag (indirectly), by tagging the
bookmark.

In addition to grouping by common tag (e.g., all `family' messages),
you can group bookmarks in multiple other ways (including bookmarking
a group of bookmarks!).  Tags and other ways of grouping let you
organize things - any kind of things that you can bookmark.  And you
can create new bookmark types for things that you cannot bookmark
out of the box.

Re: mu4e and tagging

[Colin Yates]

Drew Adams writes:

>> > > Basically I have a number of email accounts and I want to
>> > > apply a number of 'tags' to a message
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> > > (e.g. 'family', 'important', 'urgent' and so on).
>> > > This let's me then find all 'important' emails very quickly. For this
>> > > to work I need to apply multiple tags to a single email and apply the
>> > > same tag to emails across the various accounts.
>> >
>> > Bookmarks with tags?
>> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#BookmarkTags
>>
>> Thanks Drew - I can't see how that fits into the workflow - are you
>> suggesting each tag is a bookmark and then applying that bookmark
>> to the relevant emails?
>
> You said you wanted to apply multiple tags to a given email message.
> So you would bookmark a message, and apply whatever tags you wanted
> to the bookmark.  The bookmark gives you a way to tag the message.
>
> Anything you can bookmark you can tag (indirectly), by tagging the
> bookmark.
>
> In addition to grouping by common tag (e.g., all `family' messages),
> you can group bookmarks in multiple other ways (including bookmarking
> a group of bookmarks!).  Tags and other ways of grouping let you
> organize things - any kind of things that you can bookmark.  And you
> can create new bookmark types for things that you cannot bookmark
> out of the box.

Ah I see, good old recursion. That makes sense now - thanks (I was
previously looking for the hook between bookmarks and mu4e but I see now
it is more general). Loving emacs, even if it is hurting my head a
little.. ;-)