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Index markdown email drafts under a directory

Source: R/mc_md_index.R
mc_md_index.Rd

Scans a directory tree for markdown drafts matching pattern and returns a data frame summarising their frontmatter. Turns a compost-style communications/ folder into a searchable archive without querying Gmail.

Usage

mc_md_index(
  dir = "communications",
  pattern = "_draft\\.md$",
  recursive = TRUE
)

Arguments

dir

Directory to scan. Defaults to "communications".

pattern

Regex matched against filename (not path). Default "_draft\\.md$" matches compost draft naming.

recursive

Logical. Recurse into subdirectories? Default TRUE.

Value

A data frame with columns path, date, to, cc, subject, thread_id, has_attachments. date is parsed from an 8-digit YYYYMMDD_ prefix in the basename when present, else NA. Multi-value fields (to, cc) are collapsed with ", ".

Details

Files without YAML frontmatter are included with NA for all metadata columns so missing drafts are visible in the index rather than hidden.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
mc_md_index("communications/")
mc_md_index() |> dplyr::filter(grepl("cindy", to))
} # }