Re: Manage todo items with Gnus

[Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>]

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 :-)

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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