Brian Dunbar <brian.dun...@gmail.com> writes: > I'm orgmode newbie. Before I reinvent a wheel, going to ask if this has > already > been done: 'orgmode as a service'. > > Or perhaps it doesn't need to be done and I'm tilting at yet another windmill. > > Comments welcome. > > > Assume a workgroup of people - they use emacs / orgmode. Mostly Linux and OS > X, > but there might be a weirdo or two still using Solaris. > > They get TODOs from people who do -not- use emacs: managers, project managers, > Windows users, end users ... like that. > > The input arrives (mostly) via email. 'Attend Meeting Foo at 08:00 p.m.' 'Fix > Bug umptyfratz this week'. > > orgmode user manually inputs this data into emacs. > > > > I had a few free minutes and thought 'there must be a better way': 20 minutes > a > day to organize tasks * Y people on a team = a lot of wasted hours. > > > Is there a programatic method already coded up to take bits delivered to a > server, bang out the appropriate .org file and deliver it to the orgmode user? > > Assume > > data > orgmodeserv...@myhost.company.com > > orgmodeservice would be a daemon (perl, lisp, whatever) that mangles the data. > > # data > user: ad...@company.com > what: Task - record new hit single > when: June 01, 2012 > > becomes > adele.org > adele's desktop > > #adele.org > * TODO Record new hit single <2012-06-01 Fri> > > > > Am I Don Quixote slaying phantom dragons? > > > Brian Dunbar > brian.dun...@gmail.com >
If you'd rather set this up as a web service (instead e.g., an email front-end as mentioned in another reply) one intermediate step would be to write a tool for conversion between json (or some other web-friendly data type) and the Org-mode list representation defined in org-element.el in the contrib directory. Such a task should be fairly straightforward (in fact there may already be elisp<->json conversion tools written), and once done would allow for easy generation of Org-mode files from structured data. To me this does seem like it could be useful. Cheers, -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
