Dear fellow org-users,
I have just released two new packages that scratch an old itch of mine: capturing thoughts, quick notes and URLs while "on the road" with only my mobile phone around. Messaging myself feels most natural, so that is what I went with: triggering a capture via GNU Jami, the distributed private messenger. The first package, =jami-bot= provides something of a framework to handle incoming text and file messages. =org-jami-bot= provides hooks and functions that extend this to Org mode captures. Any text or file is being captured, but even simple commands (prefixed with '!') are possible, for example: #+begin_example !schedule monday buy oat milk #+end_example Schedules a todo entry for next monday. #+begin_example !url blog emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/04/2023-04-17-emacs-news/ #+end_example Uses =org-capture-ref= to capture the URL and tags it with :blog:emacs:news:. This last command is technically not part of =org-jami-bot= as it requires =org-capture-ref= to be installed and configured -- but it only takes relatively little code to realize and I have documented it in a blog post: https://www.hoowl.se/org-capture-ref-jami-bot.html Further extensions are quite easily possible, I believe. More examples and detailed documentation can be found here: https://www.hoowl.se/org-jami-bot.html The code to both packages will eventually be on Melpa, but for now it can be found here: https://gitlab.com/hperrey/jami-bot https://gitlab.com/hperrey/org-jami-bot Feedback, comments and ideas for further development are welcome! Thanks and cheers, Hanno -- Hanno Perrey https://hoowl.se
