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Does anyone have a workflow for quickly adding todos to org mode from a web-mail interface like gmail or proton? (alien.top)
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I'd love to just be able to forward a message to a specific email address or apply a tag to have a todo item automatically added to my org agenda. Does anyone have a workflow or toolkit set up that does this?

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[–] kowalj@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I run a local bot that periodically checks GMail and files things appropriately. I can, for instance add a label like "@home" to a message, and it will be filed into my org todo list with the "@home" tag.

As well, it filters for several common messages I might get from vendors that warrant my further attention.

In each of these cases, it places the email in my default "todo.org", and archives it automatically in GMail. As a result, my Inbox is clear, and my org-agenda todo list is properly populated.

For more, see here: https://github.com/jeffkowalski/gmailtender

(Please pardon the poor rendering of the README file on github.)