Re: email -> TODO items?

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

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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

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On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Peter Davis <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
> 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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