[kdepim-users] Another way to setup GTD in KMail and a little bit more asked to dev team ; )

[Arnaud Mombrial]

Le mercredi 11 février 2009 22:00:30 Ingo Klöcker, vous avez écrit :
> On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Arnaud Mombrial wrote:
> > Ehlo all @ kdepim users list !
> >
> > I've recently setup my Kmail environment in order to reflect the
> > basics of GTD pragma and in the hope it would be usefull to someone
> > here, I'll let you share my experience ;)
> >
> > As I'm in charge of all IT environment for 2 company (~80 experienced
> > people), I do receive tons of emails (something about 9 Thousands ++
> > in 18 months) mainly asking me to solve problems or build new
> > services...
> >
> > Yeah, you all know this by heart : this new task I just received a
> > minute ago has to be done for yesterday, ok boss, I'm already on it
> > ;))
> >
> > I've found that basKet is a really really really nice app to achieve
> > this goal (Don't loose time but also don't {loose | miss}
> > information), but since there's no integration in Kontact (at least
> > until now in KDE 4.x), it has become too long (not time efficient) to
> > "extract" a mail and transform it into something usable in basKet
> > (even if i continue to use this app in my personnal life for a "lot"
> > of things or when the incoming information is not an email.
> >
> > Even tought, my main information managment tool should reside close
> > to my mail, it's the less time consuming way of working (Still my 2
> > cents).
> >
> > I'll will explain you here what I've done (It's not that long, be
> > assured) to reflect GTD (My Setup is in French, so I hope, terms
> > would be correct).
> >
> > Basically, I've just created 5 new "Stamps" (Étiquettes in French) in
>
> They are called "labels" in English.

Ok Thx ;)

> > KMail. This task can be done easily in the "Message Stamp Tab" which
> > can be access through the "Appearence" category of KMail
> > Configuration page.
> >
> > The Stamps are :
> >  * Next Action (What has to be done really really soon)
> >  * Projects (Long term action)
> >  * References (Usable links or notes about Projects)
> >  * Someday (In the hope this could be achieved someday ;)
> >  * Waiting 4 (Tasks you've delegate to somebody else)
> >
> > You'll notice here that I'm really close to what is proposed in
> > basKet ;)
> >
> > With this new stamps you can now flag the relevant incoming mails in
> > a really efficient manner (In my opinion at least) and then going
> > through your daily routine reviewing the "Next Action" Category
> > often, the Project category less often, and so on...
> >
> > And that's all, you're setup and can begin to work an new efficient
> > way.
> >
> > What have found to be missing until now, is that those new stamps
> > can't be found in the Filter Configuration Page (Configuration →
> > Filter Configuration). My will was to automagically reply to the
> > sender, telling him|her his demand has been taking in charge, each
> > time I flagged with a "Next Action Stamp" an incoming email.
> >
> > So I'm asking you @ dev team, if it's that link hard to establish as
> > all the other Stamps do already appear (To Do, Important, as so
> > on...) when you choose "Message state" in the "filter configuration
> > page" ?
>
> I don't understand how the availability of your labels in the filter
> configuration dialog would help. How do you expect the reply to be send
> automatically? By a filter?

Yes exactly, that's why I'm wondering if my new Labels could appear in the 
Filter configuration page.

>
> Regards,
> Ingo


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Arnaud Mombrial


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