* Manage todo items with Gnus
@ 1999-02-14 22:27 Kai.Grossjohann
1999-02-17 12:03 ` Alexandre Oliva
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From: Kai.Grossjohann @ 1999-02-14 22:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Subject pretty much sez it all. This is pre-alpha code. Hacked it
together in two hours. Would appreciate your input.
kai `short sentence. good sentence.'
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* Re: Manage todo items with Gnus
1999-02-14 22:27 Manage todo items with Gnus Kai.Grossjohann
@ 1999-02-17 12:03 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-02-23 3:04 ` François Pinard
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From: Alexandre Oliva @ 1999-02-17 12:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
On Feb 14, 1999, Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE wrote:
> Subject pretty much sez it all. This is pre-alpha code. Hacked it
> together in two hours. Would appreciate your input.
I've also been using gnus groups for to-do lists, but I have several
categorized groups, and I use nnml, just like for all the rest of my
e-mail.
It would be great if to-do were not a gnus back-end, just a minor mode
that could be plugged onto any other e-mail back-ends. This would
obviate the need for managing mbox files, avoinding gettign new mail,
etc. I.e., it would only have to manage priorities.
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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* Re: Manage todo items with Gnus
1999-02-17 12:03 ` Alexandre Oliva
@ 1999-02-23 3:04 ` François Pinard
1999-02-23 13:03 ` William M. Perry
1999-02-23 22:22 ` Alexandre Oliva
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From: François Pinard @ 1999-02-23 3:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Kai.Grossjohann, ding
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Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:
> It would be great if to-do were not a gnus back-end, just a minor
> mode that could be plugged onto any other e-mail back-ends. This would
> obviate the need for managing mbox files, avoinding gettign new mail, etc.
> I.e., it would only have to manage priorities.
I'm not sure of what the idea behind the description above.
For TODO files, I just use `allout' mode, and like it very much. It is
exactly what I need. Isn't Gnus something quite complex, just to manage
a TODO list? What would be the incentive?
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François Pinard mailto:pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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* Re: Manage todo items with Gnus
1999-02-23 3:04 ` François Pinard
@ 1999-02-23 13:03 ` William M. Perry
1999-02-23 14:02 ` François Pinard
1999-02-23 22:22 ` Alexandre Oliva
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From: William M. Perry @ 1999-02-23 13:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Alexandre Oliva, Kai.Grossjohann, ding
You could use automatic expiry so you never feel too far behind in your todo
list! I like it!
You could also do less useful things, like eventually honor outlook schedule
requests from within gnus or something like that.
-bp
François Pinard wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:
>
> > It would be great if to-do were not a gnus back-end, just a minor
> > mode that could be plugged onto any other e-mail back-ends. This would
> > obviate the need for managing mbox files, avoinding gettign new mail, etc.
> > I.e., it would only have to manage priorities.
>
> I'm not sure of what the idea behind the description above.
>
> For TODO files, I just use `allout' mode, and like it very much. It is
> exactly what I need. Isn't Gnus something quite complex, just to manage
> a TODO list? What would be the incentive?
>
> --
> François Pinard mailto:pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
> Join the free Translation Project! http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
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* Re: Manage todo items with Gnus
1999-02-23 13:03 ` William M. Perry
@ 1999-02-23 14:02 ` François Pinard
1999-02-24 15:42 ` William M. Perry
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From: François Pinard @ 1999-02-23 14:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Alexandre Oliva, Kai.Grossjohann, ding
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"William M. Perry" <wmperry@aventail.com> écrit:
> You could use automatic expiry so you never feel too far behind in your todo
> list! I like it!
A good laugh to start the day :-). Thanks!
> You could also do less useful things, like eventually honor outlook schedule
> requests from within gnus or something like that.
By "eventually", you mean that the possibility does not exist, don't you?
Where I often work, I'm taking care of a little island of Unix systems plain
lost in a sea of WinNT servers and stations, filling offices on every floor.
Those Outlook schedule requests do fly around like hell, without touching
me. I sometimes feel like the Christ walking over the water :-). Yet,
if something exists in or around Gnus that would remove this supra-natural
protection, I might try to lift it and see how quickly I will then drawn...
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François Pinard mailto:pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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* Re: Manage todo items with Gnus
1999-02-23 3:04 ` François Pinard
1999-02-23 13:03 ` William M. Perry
@ 1999-02-23 22:22 ` Alexandre Oliva
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From: Alexandre Oliva @ 1999-02-23 22:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Kai.Grossjohann, ding
On Feb 23, 1999, François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:
>> It would be great if to-do were not a gnus back-end, just a minor
>> mode that could be plugged onto any other e-mail back-ends. This would
>> obviate the need for managing mbox files, avoinding gettign new mail, etc.
^ ^^
Jeez! Where's my spell checker! :-)
> For TODO files, I just use `allout' mode, and like it very much. It is
> exactly what I need. Isn't Gnus something quite complex, just to manage
> a TODO list? What would be the incentive?
The point is that my mailbox is my to-do list; I mark messages that
need attention/reply and look at them in my second pass of mail
reading. If they remain unattended for a while, or I know I won't
have time to work on them in the near future, I just move them into
one of my todo groups, all of them listed in a TODO topic whose
contents are usually hidden, so that long-term to-do items don't get
mixed up with short-term ones, and I don't have to be remembered of
their existence all the time :-)
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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* Re: Manage todo items with Gnus
1999-02-23 14:02 ` François Pinard
@ 1999-02-24 15:42 ` William M. Perry
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From: William M. Perry @ 1999-02-24 15:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Alexandre Oliva, Kai.Grossjohann, ding
François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> "William M. Perry" <wmperry@aventail.com> écrit:
>
> > You could use automatic expiry so you never feel too far behind in your todo
> > list! I like it!
>
> A good laugh to start the day :-). Thanks!
>
> > You could also do less useful things, like eventually honor outlook schedule
> > requests from within gnus or something like that.
>
> By "eventually", you mean that the possibility does not exist, don't you?
Correct.
> Where I often work, I'm taking care of a little island of Unix systems
> plain lost in a sea of WinNT servers and stations, filling offices on
> every floor. Those Outlook schedule requests do fly around like hell,
> without touching me. I sometimes feel like the Christ walking over the
> water :-). Yet, if something exists in or around Gnus that would remove
> this supra-natural protection, I might try to lift it and see how quickly
> I will then drawn...
Some people at our office have started using exchange for scheduling, and
it is already annoying. My stance is typically to tell them to send me
something I can actually use. By just ignoring all those MS-Word files
that get sent around, I can get a lot more work done. :)
But it might be handy to deal with meeting requests from gnus or vm.
-Bill P.
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