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29 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:11:08 -0700 (PDT)
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30 From: Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org>
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31 To: Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@canonical.com>,
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32 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>, Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>,
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33 Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
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34 Subject: Re: Preventing the user shooting themself in the foot
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43 Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:11:06 +0200
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61 On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:26:48 +1200, Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@canonical.com> wrote:
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62 > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:40:07 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
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63 > Non-text part: multipart/mixed
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64 > Non-text part: multipart/signed
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66 > not sure why notmuch reply is putting that there :)
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68 > > The lack of a "move to next thread" binding helps encourage me to form
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69 > > good habits. The goal I have when processing my inbox is to get
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70 > > everything *out* of my inbox. I can do that by deciding one of several
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73 > > * I have nothing to do
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75 > > In this case I should just archive the message immediately
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77 > > * I can deal with this message "on the spot" (such as a quick reply)
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79 > > In this case, I should deal with the message, then archive it
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81 > > * I can't deal with this now, but need to later
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83 > > This is the key scenario. The wrong thing to do is to leave the
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84 > > message in my inbox, (that just makes things pile up and makes
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85 > > my future inbox processing slow, demotivating, and
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86 > > unreliable). The right thing to do is to tag this message in a
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87 > > way that I'm sure I'll find it again when I will be equipped to
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88 > > deal with it. And then I can archive the message.
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90 > I'm come to strongly agree that this is the Right Way to process email
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91 > too, so should there be a keybinding for this last operation? It should
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92 > tag the message (or the thread?) with, say, 'task', and then proceeded
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93 > as 'a' does. 'task' should be in the default searches you get in
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94 > the notmuch hello buffer.
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96 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
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97 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "t"
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99 "Flag and archive currently selected message, and move to the next.
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100 If this is the last message, move to the next thread."
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102 (notmuch-show-add-tag "flagged")
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103 (notmuch-show-advance-and-archive)))
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106 Note that I use the "flagged" tag, since this corresponds to a maildir
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107 flag, and can be synced via IMAP.
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109 > I realize there is endless bikeshedding to be done on tag names and so
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110 > on and also on allowing people to choose their own workflow, but I also
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111 > think that this shouldn't stop the addition of a sensible default :)
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115 > _______________________________________________
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