how do i split my email view (AKA I got a new job)

how do i split my email view (AKA I got a new job)

[Antoine Beaupré]

Hello!

So I got a new job, and that means I have a new email address that
forwards to my regular mail spool. *Normally*, all that junk should end
up in a separate folder so I am tagging it all as "+work" (there are
quite a few corner cases which I handle individually, but from here on
we can assume there's a single tag to identify all that mail).

How do I stay sane during the weekends? There's a *lot* of junk coming
in that's polluting my "notmuch-hello" view. Here's a "screenshot":

   Welcome to notmuch. You have 188 359 messages.

Saved searches: [edit]

          67 inbox        259 sent           3 drafts         2 todo

Search:                                                                               .

All tags: [hide]

           1 attachment               27 logwatch                  3 work-project
          72 commit                   13 nagios                    9 work-admin
          17 cron                    124 rapports                  3 trac
          16 lists                   147 work                    151 unread

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How can I make that "All tags" junk disappear? Or, more specifically,
how do I make it ignore that crowded "work" tag? Bonus points for
flipping back and forth outside of business hours and weekends. :)

I know I can make a billion saved searches to cover for all those
cases. But so far I've used a technique where I tag messages instead of
doing saved searches and it serves me well.

Thanks!

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Re: how do i split my email view (AKA I got a new job)

[Ralph Seichter]

* Antoine Beaupré:

> How can I make that "All tags" junk disappear?

If it bugs you that much, you can use the "this page" link in "Customize
Notmuch or this page".

-Ralph

Re: how do i split my email view (AKA I got a new job)

[Jeremy Nickurak]

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If it were me, I'd be looking to do something to automatically use a
different configuration at different times of the week. One config would
look like whatever your configuration is, while the other would include the
'work' tag in your 'exclude_tags=' options, so your work email would be
invisible unless you explicitly went looking for it.

Off the top of my head, you could have 2 config files (automatically
created maybe), and you could either tweak the NOTMUCH_CONFIG environment
variable or a --config= option to select one or the other. You could also
look into emacs automation to change the notmuch-command variable to select
one configuration or the other.

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 10:19 AM Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@orangeseeds.org>
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> So I got a new job, and that means I have a new email address that
> forwards to my regular mail spool. *Normally*, all that junk should end
> up in a separate folder so I am tagging it all as "+work" (there are
> quite a few corner cases which I handle individually, but from here on
> we can assume there's a single tag to identify all that mail).
>
> How do I stay sane during the weekends? There's a *lot* of junk coming
> in that's polluting my "notmuch-hello" view. Here's a "screenshot":
>
>    Welcome to notmuch. You have 188 359 messages.
>
> Saved searches: [edit]
>
>           67 inbox        259 sent           3 drafts         2 todo
>
> Search:
>            .
>
> All tags: [hide]
>
>            1 attachment               27 logwatch                  3
> work-project
>           72 commit                   13 nagios                    9
> work-admin
>           17 cron                    124 rapports                  3 trac
>           16 lists                   147 work                    151 unread
>
>               Hit `?' for context-sensitive help in any Notmuch screen.
>                            Customize Notmuch or this page.
>
> How can I make that "All tags" junk disappear? Or, more specifically,
> how do I make it ignore that crowded "work" tag? Bonus points for
> flipping back and forth outside of business hours and weekends. :)
>
> I know I can make a billion saved searches to cover for all those
> cases. But so far I've used a technique where I tag messages instead of
> doing saved searches and it serves me well.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> The most prudent course for any society is to start from the
> assumption that the Internet should be fundamentally outside the
> domain of capital.
>                         - The Internet's Unholy Marriage to Capitalism
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Re: how do i split my email view (AKA I got a new job)

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2019-03-10 17:54:54, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> * Antoine Beaupré:
>
>> How can I make that "All tags" junk disappear?
>
> If it bugs you that much, you can use the "this page" link in "Customize
> Notmuch or this page".

Ooooh... I remember now! I digged in the source last time we chatted
about this in #notmuch. I did so again and found what I was looking for:

(setq notmuch-hello-tag-list-make-query "tag:unread and not tag:work")

Now I need to figure out how to make schedules in Emacs... :) It looks
like I need to do something with `run-at-time' or something to that
effect:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Timers.html#Timers

I also found out about the "midnight" mode, but that seems to support
only a single time trigger:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MidnightMode

I also found idle timers, but that seems irrelevant:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IdleTimers#toc2

Anyone else played with scheduling like this?

In any case, I guess just having a defun that flips that around would be
a good start. :) I'm thinking of something like:

(defun anarcat/notmuch-work-off ()
  (interactive)
  (setq notmuch-hello-tag-list-make-query "tag:unread and not tag:work")
  (notmuch-refresh-this-buffer))

(defun anarcat/notmuch-work-on ()
  (interactive)
  (setq notmuch-hello-tag-list-make-query "tag:unread")
  (notmuch-refresh-this-buffer))

That's actually two defun - and it looks rather silly, mayb there's a
way to make that a toggle somehow?

Anyways, does that look sane?

A.

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