Task Warrior extension for evolution

This holds an evolution extension that allows adding E-Mails as tasks for TaskWarrior. It doesn't do anything fancy (yet) and it probably is not completely error-save to use in some edge-cases.

I basically created this to serve my personal purpose of adding E-Mails to my task list. If it is useful to others, I'm happy :-)

This plugin is based on the Example Module stripped all unneeded code. There might be some unneeded code being left around.

Requirements

• This plugin requires the task executable to be present and executable.
• Requires evolution >= 3.36.0

Note: If evolution is installed on ubuntu using apt, you probably need to install the development header packages evolution-dev and libebook1.2-dev, as well.

Installation

For evolution >= 3.40.0:

git clone https://github.com/fmauch/evolution-taskwarrior.git
cd evolution-taskwarrior
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/.local/share/evolution/modules \
           -DFORCE_INSTALL_PREFIX=ON ..
make && make install

For evolution < 3.40.0:

git clone https://github.com/fmauch/evolution-taskwarrior.git
cd evolution-taskwarrior
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ..
make && sudo make install

After installation, you should have an entry in the context menu when right-clicking on an E-Mail saying "To Task Warrior" and a toolbar entry saying "Create TaskWarrior task".

Configuration

You can setup the default values for a new task (except the description) by creating the file ~/.config/evolution/evolution-taskwarrior.ini. An example config could look like this:

[Default task]
project = none
tags = email, next
due = tomorrow
scheduled = today
priority = L

Troubleshooting

This extension doesn't have any meaningful error handling or feedback (yet). If you start evolution from the shell, you'll see the output similar like

Executing: task add +email "This is my mail subject (From: <[email protected]>)"
Created task 87.