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From: Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org>
To: Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@canonical.com>,
	Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>,
	Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>,
	Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: Preventing the user shooting themself in the foot
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:11:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87boxeq639.fsf@praet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vcvnnh7r.fsf@canonical.com>

On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:26:48 +1200, Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:40:07 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> Non-text part: multipart/mixed
> Non-text part: multipart/signed
> 
> not sure why notmuch reply is putting that there :)
> 
> > The lack of a "move to next thread" binding helps encourage me to form
> > good habits. The goal I have when processing my inbox is to get
> > everything *out* of my inbox. I can do that by deciding one of several
> > common things:
> > 
> >     * I have nothing to do
> > 
> > 	In this case I should just archive the message immediately
> > 
> >     * I can deal with this message "on the spot" (such as a quick reply)
> > 
> > 	In this case, I should deal with the message, then archive it
> > 
> >     * I can't deal with this now, but need to later
> > 
> > 	This is the key scenario. The wrong thing to do is to leave the
> > 	message in my inbox, (that just makes things pile up and makes
> > 	my future inbox processing slow, demotivating, and
> > 	unreliable). The right thing to do is to tag this message in a
> > 	way that I'm sure I'll find it again when I will be equipped to
> > 	deal with it. And then I can archive the message.
> 
> I'm come to strongly agree that this is the Right Way to process email
> too, so should there be a keybinding for this last operation?  It should
> tag the message (or the thread?) with, say, 'task', and then proceeded
> as 'a' does.  'task' should be in the default searches you get in
> the notmuch hello buffer.

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "t"
    (lambda()
      "Flag and archive currently selected message, and move to the next.
If this is the last message, move to the next thread."
      (interactive)
      (notmuch-show-add-tag "flagged")
      (notmuch-show-advance-and-archive)))
#+END_SRC

Note that I use the "flagged" tag, since this corresponds to a maildir
flag, and can be synced via IMAP.

> I realize there is endless bikeshedding to be done on tag names and so
> on and also on allowing people to choose their own workflow, but I also
> think that this shouldn't stop the addition of a sensible default :)
> 
> Cheers,
> mwh
> _______________________________________________
> notmuch mailing list
> notmuch@notmuchmail.org
> http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch

Peace

-- 
Pieter

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-01 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-29 19:42 Preventing the user shooting themself in the foot Robin Green
2011-06-29 20:37 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-06-29 22:40 ` Carl Worth
2011-06-30  3:04   ` Brian May
2011-06-30  4:10     ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-06-30  5:40     ` Carl Worth
2011-06-30  7:45       ` Pieter Praet
2011-06-30 21:26       ` Michael Hudson-Doyle
2011-07-01 16:37         ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-07-01 17:17           ` Austin Clements
2011-07-01 17:11         ` Pieter Praet [this message]
2011-06-30 23:02       ` Stewart Smith
2011-06-30  6:29   ` Sebastian Spaeth
2011-07-04 20:09     ` Michal Sojka
2011-07-04 21:36 ` Dangerous space bar key (was: Preventing the user shooting themself in the foot) Matthieu Lemerre
2011-07-05  0:03   ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-07-05 20:23     ` Matthieu Lemerre
2011-07-06 13:25       ` Austin Clements
2011-07-07 18:49         ` Matthieu Lemerre
2011-07-07 20:40           ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-07-07 20:58             ` Austin Clements
2011-07-07 21:17               ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-07-09 17:09 ` Preventing the user shooting themself in the foot Neeum Zawan
2011-07-09 20:32   ` Daniel Schoepe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-06-29 23:53 Austin Clements
2011-06-30  7:50 ` Pieter Praet
2011-06-30  8:51   ` Pieter Praet
2011-07-01  1:28   ` Brian May
2011-07-01 21:44     ` Pieter Praet

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