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From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Add TODO from external app?
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 18:31:12 +0200
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To: Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>
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Hi Lawrence,

Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> writes:

> I've seen various things for interacting with org mode from external
> apps. I found org-protocol, as well as a Mutt-to-org mode article.
> Per the tittle, I want to be able to add new TODO items from, say, an
> email or a PHP-based web page form. Is this just brute force external
> file manipulation, i.e., e.g., my PHP code would simply open a .org
> file and concatenate a properly formatted TODO line . . . or are
> there more sophisticated ways of talking to emacs/org-mode from
> without?

I'm aware of such sophisticated ways, so for now simply open a .org
file and write to it.

-- 
 Bastien