geek stuff - Entries from September 2012

  • September, 2012
  • note to self - emergent behavior

    An emergent behavior or emergent property can appear when a number of simple entities (agents) operate in an environment, forming more complex behaviors as a collective. How does it apply to distributed systems?
  • creating org-mode TODOs from wanderlust emails

    If you are one of those five people in the world who use Emacs' wanderlust for email and org-mode, then you might find this tip useful. To create TODO items from emails, use the org-capture template. Below is the template that I use

    (setq org-capture-templates '(("t" "Todo" entry
                                  (file+headline "~/org/mygtd.org" "Tasks")
      " TODO %^{Brief Description} %^g\n%?\nAdded: %U" :prepend t)
                                 ("j" "Journal" entry
      (file+headline "~/dump/journal.org" "")
      "\n %^{topic} %T \n%i%?\n" :prepend t)
                                 ("e" "Email Todo" entry
                                  (file+headline "~/org/mygtd.org" "Tasks")
                                  "* TODO %^{Brief Description}\n%a\n%?Added: %U\n" :prepend t)
          ))
    
    

    When you are reading an email and you want to create a TODO item from it, just do M-x org-capture and select the Email Todo (e).

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