On 10/06/2022 20:11, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
Max Nikulin writes:
I am playing with a thunderbird add-on that may add an icon to folder
view if Org Mode files contains a link to this message. It is not
polished yet, but I suppose, you may try it
https://github.com/maxnikulin/orco/
Looks interesting.
I do not use Thunderbird and cannot try it, but the idea of backlinks
from third-party apps back to Emacs notes is very promising.
My colleague had a dream of cross-linking mails and notes (irrespective
to Emacs) several years ago.
I imagine browser URLs could also indicate if they have associated Org
notes. Or pdfs.
It seems, most of PDF viewers do not allow decorations added by users.
Even built-in viewers in browsers displays document as privileged
content inaccessible by extensions. A kind of workaround is loading of
the same pdf.js to a regular page, but it is not really convenient. I am
unsure concerning security issues when pdf.js is bundled into an add-on.
As to browsers, this thunderbird add-on is my experiment with UI in
browser action popup. When working on LinkRemark I had no idea how to
add such feature to it. Second level of context menu is inconvenient.
Menu in popup may be better for adding more features, but I realized it
quite late.
Also, did you announce this anywhere outside Org ML?
I have no idea where I should announce it since currently it is useful
mostly with Org mode. Unsure if e.g. API of Joplin app will allow to get
all links of certain kind in all notes.
Also I am afraid that I may broke something in Thunderbird internals. It
has some code for custom columns but docs are rather scarce, so I am
unsure if I implemented it properly. It is a reason to take a pause and
to wait if my profile would turn into unusable state.
