Re: emulating mozilla's Label command

[Sacha Chua <sacha@free.net.ph>]

Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> writes:

> Background: I currently use "unread" as need-to-handle-at-some-point,
> and ticked as "critical".  Thus, most of my zillions of folders have
> zillions of unread messages in them since I never manage to get
> anything done.

Been there, done that, lost mail! <laugh>

I've since then moved to creating tasks based on e-mail messages using
planner.el . (Disclaimer: I maintain planner.el, so I'm a bit biased.
=) ) I hit a key sequence, type in a short reminder, and schedule the
task for today or some other day (optionally associating it with an
ongoing project). It automatically picks up a link to the current
message. For example, creating one from the parent article would give
me something that looks like

#A0 _ Describe planner from [[gnus://list.emacs.gnus/<sd65catq92.fsf@wes.hardakers.net>][E-Mail from Wes Hardaker]] (PlannerMode)

and it gets marked up as

#A0 _ Describe planner from E-Mail from Wes Hardaker (PlannerMode)

where "E-Mail from Wes Hardaker" and "PlannerMode" are clickable
links. So using an external-to-gnus module like PlannerMode makes my
mail bearable, but it would still be nice to flag things.

I really, really want to be able to color-code my mail so that I can
see which messages are asking for bugfixes, which are asking for
features, and which are just general thoughts. Right now I have a
_lot_ of folders, but this gets hard to manage! <laugh>

PlannerMode is described on
http://emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PlannerMode and
http://sacha.free.net.ph/PlannerMode.php

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