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[Bertrand Rousseau <bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

Thanks for the kind words, and for sharing your tricks with us. It's
to get feedback on some actual use of GTG.

Have a nice day,

Bertrand

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:52 PM, David Coeurjolly
<david.coeurjolly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi GTG users,
>
> I'm definitely a GTG fan and I would like to share with you the tweaks I
> use to interact with GTG. I just would like to mention first that I'm a
> newbie in Python programming (but a quite experienced script kidder;))
>
> *Level 1: change the gtg_new_task CLI*
>  I loved a lot the CLI of Task (from todo.sh) so I have rewritten the
> tg_new_task in order to take in arguments the subject and the text of
> the brand new task and create it with the fantastic GTG DBUS interface
> "new_task()".
> (TODO: handle and parse the dates and tags). Hence with a single command
> line, I can create the skeleton of a task.
>
> *Level 2: Email gateway"
>  It is an interesting but very complex feature in Chandler: I would like
> to create a task with sending a message to a specific Inbox or with
> specific Subject prefix keyword.
>
> To do that with Thunderbird, I have created a Message Filter that move
> the corresponding message to a specific folder. Then I use the "mailbox
> alert" TB extension to execute a command line upon new message
> arrival... and in fact I use the above GTG CLI to create a new task with
> the message subject as task title ;)
>
> Using these techniques (well.. quite harebrained I have to admit), I can
> create tasks on my smartphone (sending emails) when I'm out of my
> office. When I'm back, TB filters the new messages and creates the
> correspondings tasks.
> TODO: with a better CLI parser, I could also specify due dates and tags
> parsing the email subject...
>
> If you are interested, I can send you the new gtg_new_task but the
> modifications are trivial...
>
> By the way, I also use the HTML export to get my task list on my iphone
> (via a webserver) but the process is not great. I would love to update
> the Export plugin to periodically export the task list to a TXT or HTML
> file...
>
> -
> Dav
>
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Bertrand Rousseau