Re: [O] email - TODO items?

2014-01-13 Thread Peter Davis
Nick Dokos ndo...@gmail.com writes: Brett Viren b...@bnl.gov writes: Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com writes: I use half a dozen email clients, including mutt, which lets me easily pipe a message to a script. The need to support multiple clients may rule out my suggestion but capturing a

Re: [O] email - TODO items?

2014-01-06 Thread Karl Voit
* Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com wrote: Sometimes it's much quicker and easier to email myself notes on things to do. Using email for a todo management system has many disadvantages. I read a *lot* about those attempts. For the purpose you were mentioning, I am using MobileOrg (Android) to

Re: [O] email - TODO items?

2014-01-06 Thread Peter Davis
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014, at 05:51 AM, Karl Voit wrote: * Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com wrote: Sometimes it's much quicker and easier to email myself notes on things to do. Using email for a todo management system has many disadvantages. I read a *lot* about those attempts. For the

Re: [O] email - TODO items?

2014-01-06 Thread Brett Viren
Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com writes: I use half a dozen email clients, including mutt, which lets me easily pipe a message to a script. The need to support multiple clients may rule out my suggestion but capturing a TODO or a note while visiting a GNUS message and thus preserving the link

Re: [O] email - TODO items?

2014-01-06 Thread Nick Dokos
Brett Viren b...@bnl.gov writes: Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com writes: I use half a dozen email clients, including mutt, which lets me easily pipe a message to a script. The need to support multiple clients may rule out my suggestion but capturing a TODO or a note while visiting a GNUS

Re: [O] email - TODO items?

2014-01-06 Thread aitor
... I use half a dozen email clients, including mutt, which lets me easily pipe a message to a script. If you are using mutt, check out this link: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/02/integrating_Mutt_with_Org-mode/ best, aitor

[O] email - TODO items?

2014-01-05 Thread Peter Davis
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.

Re: [O] email - TODO items?

2014-01-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 09:46:58AM -0500, Peter Davis 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

Re: [O] email - TODO items?

2014-01-05 Thread John Kitchin
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: