From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kitchin Subject: Re: email -> TODO items? Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 16:50:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20140105144652.GF385@pfdstudio-air.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b10ccc3e4282904ef402189 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37605) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzvah-0003uo-It for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 16:50:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzvac-00021W-IM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 16:50:39 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-x236.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c01::236]:41799) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzvab-000219-UL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 16:50:34 -0500 Received: by mail-pb0-f54.google.com with SMTP id un15so17613121pbc.41 for ; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:50:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20140105144652.GF385@pfdstudio-air.home> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Peter Davis Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" --047d7b10ccc3e4282904ef402189 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Maybe you could use some online service like Remember the Milk that offers an rss-feed for your todos, and use org-feed to pull them in to an org file. you can send emails to RTM of tasks. org-feed already handles the file duplication issue. another option might be: https://zapier.com/zapbook/email/google-tasks/ there seem to be lots of options like this. John ----------------------------------- John Kitchin Associate Professor Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:46 AM, 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:.org][]] > > Then it would create the .org file, insert a standard > preamble I use, and put the body of the email into that > file. ( 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? > > Thanks very much! > > -pd > > > -- > ---- > Peter Davis > The Tech Curmudgeon > www.techcurmudgeon.com > > --047d7b10ccc3e4282904ef402189 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Maybe you could use some online service like Rem= ember the Milk that offers an rss-feed for your todos, and use org-feed to = pull them in to an org file. you can send emails to RTM of tasks. org-feed = already handles the file duplication issue.

another option might be: https://zapier.com/zapbook/email/google-tasks/
there seem to be lots of options like this.

John

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J= ohn Kitchin
Associate Professor
Doherty Hall A207F
Department of C= hemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu



On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Peter Da= vis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> 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<= br> 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?

Thanks very much!

-pd


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Peter Davis
The Tech Curmudgeon
www.techcurmudg= eon.com


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