• Installation
  • Quelpa
  • DOOM Emacs
  • Spacemacs
• Setup
• Usage
  • Reading from clubhouse
  • Writing to clubhouse
    • Automatically updating Clubhouse story statuses
• Philosophy
• Configuration

#+TITLE:Org-Clubhouse

Simple, unopinionated integration between Emacs's org-mode and the Clubhouse issue tracker

(This used to be at urbint/org-clubhouse, by the way, but moved here as it's more of a personal project than a company one)

Installation

Quelpa

(quelpa '(org-clubhouse
          :fetcher github
          :repo "urbint/org-clubhouse"))

DOOM Emacs

;; in packages.el
(package! org-clubhouse
  :recipe (:fetcher github
           :repo "urbint/org-clubhouse"
           :files ("*")))

;; in config.el
(def-package! org-clubhouse)

Spacemacs

;; in .spacemacs (SPC+fed)
   dotspacemacs-additional-packages
    '((org-clubhouse :location (recipe :fetcher github :repo "urbint/org-clubhouse")))

Setup

Once installed, you'll need to set three global config vars:

(setq org-clubhouse-auth-token "<your-token>"
      org-clubhouse-team-name "<your-team-name>"
      org-clubhouse-username "<your-username>")

You can generate a new personal API token by going to the "API Tokens" tab on the "Settings" page in the clubhouse UI.

Usage

Reading from clubhouse

• org-clubhouse-headlines-from-query Create org-mode headlines from a clubhouse query at the cursor's current position, prompting for the headline indentation level and clubhouse query text
• org-clubhouse-headline-from-story Prompts for headline indentation level and the title of a story (which will complete using the titles of all stories in your Clubhouse workspace) and creates an org-mode headline from that story
• org-clubhouse-headline-from-story-id Creates an org-mode headline directly from the ID of a clubhouse story

Writing to clubhouse

• org-clubhouse-create-story Creates a new Clubhouse story from the current headline, or if a region of headlines is selected bulk-creates stories with all those headlines
• org-clubhouse-create-epic Creates a new Clubhouse epic from the current headline, or if a region of headlines is selected bulk-creates epics with all those headlines
• org-clubhouse-create-story-with-task-list Creates a Clubhouse story from the current headline, making all direct children of the headline into tasks in the task list of the story
• org-clubhouse-push-task-list Writes each child element of the current clubhouse element as a task list item of the associated clubhouse ID.
• org-clubhouse-update-story-title Updates the title of the Clubhouse story linked to the current headline with the text of the headline
• org-clubhouse-update-description Update the status of the Clubhouse story linked to the current element with the contents of a drawer inside the element called DESCRIPTION, if any exists
• org-clubhouse-claim Adds the user configured in org-clubhouse-username as the owner of the clubhouse story associated with the headline at point

Automatically updating Clubhouse story statuses

Org-clubhouse can be configured to update the status of stories as you update their todo-keyword in org-mode. To opt-into this behavior, set the org-clubhouse-mode minor-mode:

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook #'org-clubhouse-mode nil nil)

The mapping from org-mode todo-keywords is configured via the org-clubhouse-state-alist variable, which should be an alist mapping (string) org-mode todo-keywords to the (string) names of their corresponding workflow state. You can have todo-keywords that don't map to a workflow state (I use this in my workflow extensively) and org-clubhouse will just preserve the previous state of the story when moving to that state.

An example config:

(setq org-clubhouse-state-alist
      '(("TODO"   . "To Do")
        ("ACTIVE" . "In Progress")
        ("DONE"   . "Done")))

Philosophy

I use org-mode every single day to manage tasks, notes, literate programming, etc. Part of what that means for me is that I already have a system for the structure of my .org files, and I don't want to sacrifice that system for any external tool. Updating statuses, org-clubhouse-create-story, and org-clubhouse-headline-from-story are my bread and butter for that reason - rather than having some sort of bidirectional sync that pulls down full lists of all the stories in Clubhouse (or whatever issue tracker / project management tool I'm using at the time). I can be in a mode where I'm taking meeting notes, think of something that I need to do, make it a TODO headline, and make that TODO headline a clubhouse story. That's the same reason for the DESCRIPTION drawers rather than just sending the entire contents of a headline to Clubhouse - I almost always want to write things like personal notes, literate code, etc inside of the tasks I'm working on, and don't always want to share that with Clubhouse.

Configuration

Refer to the beginning of the org-clubhouse.el file in this repository for documentation on all supported configuration variables