Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes on juni 21, 2017 23:30:
> On Wed 2017-06-21 13:04:53 -0700, Matt Armstrong wrote:
>> For what it is worth, I've found this idea from Daniel intriguing and
>> pretty useful in practice:
>>
>>   "show me threads in which i've participated, where there are some
>>    messages flagged with 'inbox'"
>>
>> I implement it like this in my post-new hook:
>>
>>     # All messages in threads in which I participate get tag:participated
>>     notmuch search --output=threads from:marmstrong | \
>>       sed -e 's,^,+participated -- ,' | \
>>       notmuch tag --batch
> 
> cool, thx for the suggestion.
> 
> the "notmuch search" part of the pipeline alone takes ~19s (wall time,
> and actual CPU time) for me though :/  It returns 30504 threads!  how
> many threads do you get?

Is there any reason why you do not filter on a tag 'new' as well?

     notmuch search --output=threads from:marmstrong and tag:new | \
       sed -e 's,^,+participated -- ,' | \
       notmuch tag --batch


Regards, Gaute