converting notmuch email to 'TODO' entry in org-mode

converting notmuch email to 'TODO' entry in org-mode

[David Belohrad]

Dear All,

i'm constantly facing a task: someone sends me an email to do
something, and I'm manually copying contents of email into org-mode
task using org-mode templates. The template itself only enters the
'default' todo line and when it was entered, but I'd like to copy the
contents of the email I'm currently in into that buffer.

This would allow me to get e.g. exchange meeting request and seamlessly
copy it into my agenda.

is there any way how to get 'current email' (not current thread)
contents into kill ring so I could write a small script to paste it into
org-mode template?

thanks

.d.

Re: converting notmuch email to 'TODO' entry in org-mode

[David Bremner]

David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch> writes:
>
> is there any way how to get 'current email' (not current thread)
> contents into kill ring so I could write a small script to paste it into
> org-mode template?

Here is what I came up with by canibalizing existing functions. 
Probably there is a more elegant way to do this.

(defun notmuch-show-stash-body ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((all (buffer-substring (notmuch-show-message-top)
		     (notmuch-show-message-bottom))))
    (with-temp-buffer
      (insert all)
      ;; Remove the original header.
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (re-search-forward "^$" (point-max) nil)
      (delete-region (point-min) (point))
      (notmuch-common-do-stash
       (buffer-string)))))

Re: converting notmuch email to 'TODO' entry in org-mode

[Tomi Ollila]

On Fri, May 24 2013, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:

> David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch> writes:
>>
>> is there any way how to get 'current email' (not current thread)
>> contents into kill ring so I could write a small script to paste it into
>> org-mode template?
>
> Here is what I came up with by canibalizing existing functions. 
> Probably there is a more elegant way to do this.
>
> (defun notmuch-show-stash-body ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((all (buffer-substring (notmuch-show-message-top)
> 		     (notmuch-show-message-bottom))))

(copy-region-as-kill (notmuch-show-message-top) (notmuch-show-message-bottom)) ?

Sorry didn't do any experiments whether this approach works (and thought
whether any save-excursions. etc are needed (or not!))

Anyway, this was easy to come by after David's example withouth much
thinking :D

Tomi



>     (with-temp-buffer
>       (insert all)
>       ;; Remove the original header.
>       (goto-char (point-min))
>       (re-search-forward "^$" (point-max) nil)
>       (delete-region (point-min) (point))
>       (notmuch-common-do-stash
>        (buffer-string)))))

Re: converting notmuch email to 'TODO' entry in org-mode

[Rainer M. Krug]

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David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch> writes:

> Dear All,
>
> i'm constantly facing a task: someone sends me an email to do
> something, and I'm manually copying contents of email into org-mode
> task using org-mode templates. The template itself only enters the
> 'default' todo line and when it was entered, but I'd like to copy the
> contents of the email I'm currently in into that buffer.
>
> This would allow me to get e.g. exchange meeting request and seamlessly
> copy it into my agenda.
>
> is there any way how to get 'current email' (not current thread)
> contents into kill ring so I could write a small script to paste it into
> org-mode template?

I would probably ask at the org list, as this would be very useful not
only for notmuch, but also for gnus and other mail clients. I.e. a
function which extracts from the current buffer the headers, puts them
into org properties and puts the (selected) text in the body text
underneath would be very useful.

Rainer


>
> thanks
>
> .d.


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Rainer M. Krug

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Re: converting notmuch email to 'TODO' entry in org-mode

[Peter Feigl]

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This is rather bad but working code I use to import meeting requests
into org. I've been wanting to improve it and put it on github, but
haven't gotten around to doing that yet :-/
Just (require '..) both of them, then you should have an additional
button for vCalendar attachments, allowing you to import it.
Replying, Accepting and Rejecting are WIP, parts are there, but they
don't work reliably with Microsoft Outlook yet (which doesn't really
honour the standards at all :-/)

Good luck with it :)

Peter

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Re: converting notmuch email to 'TODO' entry in org-mode

[Nicholas Peihl]

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Hi David,

When you say org-mode template are you referring to Capture templates
for creating TODO items? Does having the %i variable in the Capture
template copy the email text you are looking for?

http://orgmode.org/manual/Template-expansion.html#Template-expansion

Nick Peihl


On 5/24/2013 12:22 AM, David Belohrad wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> i'm constantly facing a task: someone sends me an email to do
> something, and I'm manually copying contents of email into org-mode
> task using org-mode templates. The template itself only enters the
> 'default' todo line and when it was entered, but I'd like to copy the
> contents of the email I'm currently in into that buffer.
>
> This would allow me to get e.g. exchange meeting request and seamlessly
> copy it into my agenda.
>
> is there any way how to get 'current email' (not current thread)
> contents into kill ring so I could write a small script to paste it into
> org-mode template?
>
> thanks
>
> .d.
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> notmuch mailing list
> notmuch@notmuchmail.org
> http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch


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Re: converting notmuch email to 'TODO' entry in org-mode

[Robert Horn]

Rainer M. Krug writes:

> David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch> writes:
>
>> is there any way how to get 'current email' (not current thread)
>> contents into kill ring so I could write a small script to paste it into
>> org-mode template?
>

It's not the same thing, but org-capture with the mu4e buffers captures
an active link to the email as the current context.  I find this to be
sufficient for many tasks. It does mean I have to follow that link to
look at the message itself.

R Horn

Re: converting notmuch email to 'TODO' entry in org-mode

[David Bremner]

Robert Horn <rjhorn@alum.mit.edu> writes:

>> David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch> writes:
>>
>>> is there any way how to get 'current email' (not current thread)
>>> contents into kill ring so I could write a small script to paste it into
>>> org-mode template?
>>
>
> It's not the same thing, but org-capture with the mu4e buffers captures
> an active link to the email as the current context.  I find this to be
> sufficient for many tasks. It does mean I have to follow that link to
> look at the message itself.

org-notmuch (shipped with org-mode in contrib) provides the same
facilities for notmuch-show and notmuch-search buffers.

d