emacs-application-framework VS mu4e-dashboard

Great! I love this. I have a similar motivation system, but which is graphical by design. Right now I use an external program to manage the UI, but have considered integrating it using Emacs-EAF.

lols in EAF

https://github.com/emacs-eaf/emacs-application-framework/wiki/FAQ if you wanna know the technical details. This faq page is what you want.

Just discovered this project Emacs Application Framework? Looks pretty interesting. They seem have developed everything from a web browser to a pdf reader. Anyone used it yet? What are your thoughts about it?

Thank you for the reply! This is a bit disheartening. I was hoping that it was possible with something like EAF.

I'm very new to using Emacs. I used it a bit for school but learned nothing about how to modify it etc. Recently I installed Doom Emacs which is very cool, and then I found out about Emacs Application Framework. Unfortunately I have no idea how to install it on Doom because the guide only talks about vanilla emacs. I found a reddit thread about it which also cites a github discussion, but unfortunately I have no idea what they are talking about. I tried to do some stuff without understanding. I am not 100% sure what I did but it didn't really work and I don't even know for sure how to get everything back to where it was before I added anything and start trying again.

There is also this guy with EAF. I have never used it myself, but it seems to expose Qt, which should give you lots of opportunity. I don't know how simple/difficult it is to get it going, and how well it works on macos.

Inspired by Nicolas Rougier's mu4e-dashboard, I tried to create a similar dasboard for my org-agenda. The links in the dashboard open an agenda search window in the middle window, which by default shows a weekly agenda. This combined with the side window on the right (mostly taken from Rougier's task agenda) makes for a rather nice setup, I believe.

Sidebar is a child frame that is displayed on the left side of a regular frame and can be used to display any kind of information. In the screenshot above, it displays a mue4e dashboard (https://github.com/rougier/mu4e-dashboard) . I did not find how to have per-frame theme and I ended up exploiting the dark/light mode frame settings and theme will adapt (if it includes the two modes). Here, the theme here is nano-theme (https://github.com/rougier/nano-theme) and the sidebar uses the dark version.

mu4e-dashboard (https://github.com/rougier/mu4e-dashboard),

My weird idea is that I think Emacs could be a great platform to ship software. Just like people use Electron to ship apps, we could use Emacs to ship apps as well. We would have a great power for customization. We have buttons (widgets) that can be a little hard to understand at first, but dashboard-mode and spacemacs are good examples that we can have beautiful "interfaces" in Emacs. Look at mu4e-dashboard, we could have a very beautiful and functional email software in Emacs someday, we just need an easier way to setup email because it can be really painful.