Re: emulating mozilla's Label command

[Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net>]

>>>>> On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 10:02:32 -0400, Chris Green <cmg@dok.org> said:

Chris> Important,Work,Personal,Todo,Later,etc..

Chris> Is there an easy way to emulate this with marks?  I use tick right now
Chris> to mean some set of all of those and often things get lost between
Chris> important and todo. I've tried working by copying todo's to a special
Chris> folder but I'm not trainable enough in that mode.

You know, I was thinking about something like that just yesterday.

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.

What I need, though, is a sorted and combined list of all my
outstanding mail messages (preferably prioritized).  The problem is
that they're spread over a lot of groups, and it would be really slow
opening a whole ton of nnimap groups to generate one large summary
buffer full of todo items from all the groups.  The way around this,
probably, is through the use of the cache or the agent.

What I'd like would be a thread summary something like (badly drawn, sorry):

imap
 \- inbox
  \- family
    - Go to Mom's at 9
    - Help sister with her computer
  \- work
    - Write boss
    \- project1
     - submit report

But the cool thing would be if each of the topics actually came from a
group name (imap.inbox, imap.inbox.family, imap.work,
imap.work.project1), ...  And if all the data was auto-gathered from a
specified list of folders to work on.

I don't think putting something like this together would be terribly
difficult, since the support for much of it already exists (virtual
groups, todos, cache, agent, ...).  It's just a matter of a high-level
wrapper.

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