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[O] Custom todo-like thing in agenda?
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Marcin Borkowski |
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[O] Custom todo-like thing in agenda? |
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Sat, 16 Aug 2014 04:15:25 +0200 |
Hi all,
I was wondering whether something like this is possible. (Well, I'm
pretty sure it is, what I don't know whether I'm competent enough to
pull it off...) I'd like to be able to create a special agenda view
(or block in a "normal" agenda, this shouldn't make much difference,
since I may use block agenda instead of the usual C-c a a), in which
the lines would behave much like TODOs, with the exception that their
source would not be an Org file, but something else. In my case, it
would be a web todo-like service, with the possibility of extracting
info (like the deadline and such) using some command-line curl
invocation. Then, I could (rather easily, I guess) write some Elisp
to parse this info, and (here the hard part - at least for me -
begins) somehow insert it in the agenda buffer.
Of course, I could also just generate an "intermediate", temporary org
file, using curl -> parsing -> buffer -> save and include it in the
agenda. This would most probably speed up the process of generating
the agenda (which is a plus). However, I'd like another
functionality: I'd like to have the `t' command to send some
information to the web service I'm using.
Where should I start? Is there anything even remotely similar to what
I'm trying to achieve so that I could analyze its source, for
instance? Is the "intermediate org file" idea a reasonable one (the
more I think about it, the more I like it)?
If I decide to go the "intermediate-file" way, where could I hook into
the agenda generation, so that it is e.g. created only once each day
(to save time) or on explicit demand (this part is easy, I guess -
just some command to create it and a key in org-agenda-mode-map...)?
Should I advise org-agenda or is there some hook run *before* agenda
generation? Should I advise org-todo? (Just looking at its source
made my head spin...) Should I use some hooks for the todo behavior I
described? (I found org-trigger-hook and
org-after-todo-state-change-hook; frankly, I don't really get why both
are there...
Sorry for being a bit vague - this is still a concept in a preliminary
stage, and it's 4:07 am here;)...
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University
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