Hi Lawrence,

Here is a Python script I use to scrape TODOs from emails. I haven't polished it up and put it on github yet, but you are welcome to give it a whirl (anyone else is too, obviously). You need python 2.5 or greater to run this. Configure by modifying the variables at the top of the file.

Carsten: If you think this is a worthwhile addition to contrib, I am happy to clean it up, and write a bit of documentation for inclusion with org mode.

Hope this helps,

-Anthony

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:

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?

LB