[emacs-wiki-discuss] Thoughts about Reverse Linking

[John Sullivan]

Being able to jump from a task to the relevant document is a fantastic thing.

I've been thinking about what doing the reverse would look like, in cases where
we can't insert back links into the document itself.

For example, email messages in Gnus.

I often find myself wondering if I have already created a task linked to a
particular mail message. Or, I'm going through my inbox and want to jump to the
task associated with a message so that I can clock in on it or read the notes
that I have associated with the task.

I guess the thing to do would be to write a function that searches my planner
pages for what would be the annotation information from the current message or
document, and displays or jumps to that task.

Would this be useful to other people? Any thoughts about how it should work, or
problems that might come up trying to write it?


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