A notifications layer for Spacemacs, that works with org mode and evil mode
This package offers a simple way to handle notifications in Emacs, notifications could be a new email, a bookmark from a file with a to do message, someone sent a message to you on a messaging application
The idea is to open a side bar, that shows an Org file, every list item is a notification, and archiving the item is equivalent to marking the notifications ar read.
using Org mode as a format takes advantage of the Org mode linking, as you can link to a file or a URL or a remote file, and even sub notifications, if you wish as a sub-list
The package defines a minor mode that adds some other small keybinding for Evil mode such as ‘q’ to close the panel or ‘r’ to mark current highlighted notification as read and archive it.
So simply it’s an Org file opened in a window to the side waiting for the file to be changed to reload, you can write any comandline tool that works in the background and appends to that file, this is how you push a new notification, it’s as simple as that so a command line `echo “* new notification” >> ~/path/to/notificatins.org` will push a new notification to your Emacs notifications side bar, and as the panel has `auto-revert-mode’ it’ll display it automatically
To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to
add notifications to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this
file.
| variable | Description |
|---|---|
notifications-file | the notifications file path |
notifications-panel-width | the sidebar width characters |
| Key | function |
|---|---|
SPC a n n | Open notifications panel |
SPC a n b | Create a bookmark linking to the current file and line |
SPC a n t | Create a todo with title and description |
| Keybinding | Function |
|---|---|
r | Mark the notification as read and archive it |
q | Close the notificatins panel |