Many thanks for this effort, Eric. I will try to test Gnorb as soon as possible.
Best wishes Jo. 2014-07-16 5:03 GMT+02:00 Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net>: > Joseph Vidal-Rosset <joseph.vidal.ros...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Hello, > > > > This is very interesting indeed. But is there somewhere a good > > tutorial to read or video to see ? It would be helpful for people who > > want to use Gnus + Org-mode in optimal way. > > Someone asked me about a screencast recently, around the same time that > I realized the README isn't actually very readable! Part of getting the > package Elpa-ready will also be writing a proper Info manual. > > For the time being, the very basics of email tracking (though Gnorb does > a lot more) would look like this: > > 1. Start by making a TODO which represents a message that you have to > send. That could be using plain old capture on an incoming message > you want to reply to. Or using gnorb-gnus-outgoing-do-todo on a > message while you're composing it. Or just typing out a TODO. One way > or the other, you want a TODO heading that contains a mailto link, or > a bbdb link, or a gnus message link (or some combination thereof). > > 2. Call gnorb-org-handle-mail on that heading. You'll end up composing a > message of some sort. > > 3. Send the message. You'll be taken back to the original TODO heading, > and prompted to take a note or change the TODO state. For example, > from EMAIL to WAIT. It's useful to enable state-change logging. > > 4. Wait for a reply. When you get it, Gnorb will know (I hope) that the > reply is relevant to the original TODO, and will prompt you to call > gnorb-gnus-incoming-do-todo on the message. Do that. > > 5. Again you'll be taken back to the TODO, and prompted to take a note > or change the TODO state -- for example, from WAIT to REPLY. A link > to the received message can (and should) be inserted into the > state-change drawer. > > 6. Go back to step two, and repeat until your email conversation is > done. > > What it boils down to is calling gnorb-org-handle-mail on your TODO > heading, and gnorb-gnus-incoming-do-todo on received messages. > Everything else is gravy. (But there's a lot of gravy!) > > The moment something doesn't work the way you like it, look at the > customization options. > > Maybe what I need here is a diagram... > > Eric > > > 2014-07-15 16:11 GMT+02:00 Alan Schmitt < > > alan.schm...@polytechnique.org>: > > > > On 2014-07-15 02:57, Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Hadn't have the time to try Gnorb, but the combination of gnus& > > org is > > > definitely interesting for me. > > > > I highly recommend this library. I haven't scratched the surface, > > but > > one great "aha" moment was when I was reading in email in gnus > > and saw > > a message in the minibuffer about a relevant task from my todo > > list. > > > > I mostly use it to track "waiting for" sent email: after sending > > an > > email, with one keystroke I can create a waiting for task with a > > link to > > the sent email. I also use it to create "reply to" tasks. > > > > Alan > > > > -- > > OpenPGP Key ID : 040D0A3B4ED2E5C7 >
