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Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by myg204 »

Tomte wrote: post #37

"plus it's completely platform agnostic and future proof, because it's just text" This always irks me a bit. Being text doesn't mean that there is no file format and internal semantics to it. Sure, it's easy to hack together some transformation in Perl, but "plus it's completely platform agnostic and future proof, because it's just binary" would be correct, as well. As long as the format is documented.

True. But plaintext is almost a self documented format. The structure/format of an org more file is obvious just by looking at it really. Can't say the same about a binary file.

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by Tomte »

MandieD wrote: post #105
Tomte wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OneNote is a bit idiosyncratic and I've had problems using it "right" whenever I tried it. But then I finally read some blog posts and documentation and it clicked. I'm not looking back, either. Even though I'm Emacs-inclined (though not living in Emacs), orgmode is too unwieldy and complicated for me, and the "killer missing feature" is quick entry and editing on my mobile phone. OneNote does that very, very well.

Mind sharing the links or names of what posts or docs helped you the most with OneNote?

https://www.eng.vt.edu/sites/default/files/pageattachments/m... was pretty helpful. I don't remember the others.

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by theodorewiles »

My system for remote editing:

System A: get a notebook. Write down what you want to capture when you are away from your comp. When you sit down, check your notebook.

System B: Run your org mode on a linode. Download Connectbot (SSH client) for your phone. You can now connect to your Org wherever you have cell service and work from one always-running emacs instance with emacs --daemon and emacsclient -c. I bought a personal blackberry (yes, I know) solely for the physical keyboard which makes throwing out a CTRL or META keypress much easier.

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by sdnguyen90 »

midgetjones wrote: post #73
Uberphallus wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For anyone trying not to make the same terrible mistake, you have vim-orgmode: https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode

Or for anyone that is more open-minded, yet worried about the learning curve of switching from vim to emacs: http://spacemacs.org/

I switched to Spacemacs from Vim a few months ago and I'm probably never going back to Vim. I didn't notice any difference between Evil mode and actual Vim. Took me a week or two to learn the Emacs and Spacemacs specific things before I was comfortable using as my primary editor.

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by 392c91e8165b »

Tomte wrote: post #28
mmel wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used orgmode for a while before importing them all into Microsoft OneNote, haven't looked back

OneNote is a bit idiosyncratic and I've had problems using it "right" whenever I tried it. But then I finally read some blog posts and documentation and it clicked. I'm not looking back, either. Even though I'm Emacs-inclined (though not living in Emacs), orgmode is too unwieldy and complicated for me, and the "killer missing feature" is quick entry and editing on my mobile phone. OneNote does that very, very well.

>Even though I'm Emacs-inclined (though not living in Emacs), orgmode is too unwieldy and complicated for me

I do live in Emacs, but I prefer the mouse to the keyboard for tasks that can be done both ways, and balked at learning the many dozens of keyboard shortcuts ("keys", in Emacs terminology) org mode wanted me to learn.

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by satyajitranjeev »

I recently read a blog post[1] describing to store dot files in org mode. It is a fantastic technique and I really don't need to worry about symlinking files. All my dot files are stored in one orgmode file. Brilliant usage of org-bable feature. This also influenced moving my init.el file to org file.

[1] https://expoundite.net/guides/dotfile-management

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by yvdriess »

sz4kerto wrote: post #75
_lbaq wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I took my OneNote stuff into OrgMode because I think there is a higher risk of OneNote being an unreadable format in the future and/or the service being turned off.

OneNote stores the notebooks in simple files -- sharing is done through Onedrive. It's very-very unlikely that suddenly and without warning Microsoft 1) encodes your notebooks in some unreadable format 2) stops the service.

I would not be surprised, they have done both in the past.

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by blaedj »

colah3 wrote: post #24

I really like org-mode and used it heavily for about a year. But I found having my todo list on a single computer pretty limiting. Thankfully, there's a new generation of org-mode inspired cloud apps: * https://workflowy.com/ -- the most mature app * https://www.moo.do -- really nice Google Apps integration * https://checkvist.com/ -- extremely feature rich I'm really excited by these tools. I feel like org-mode has…

Ymmv but I sync my notes files via Dropbox across several computers. I wrote a simple elisp function that runs on startup and opens my "todo.org" file. The only unsolved piece of the puzzle here for me is mobile: I haven't found a good way to view/edit org files on iOS.

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by Gratsby »

I am an emacs user, but my initial foray into org mode wasn't particularly successful. I was much happier in OneNote.

Now that I work mostly in an OSX environment where OneNote is a stripped down shell of it's Windows counterpart, I've been searching for a replacement. I think it's time to give org-mode a try once again.

I'm not big on this set of documentation though. It's great for a reference, but I would like to see something more engaging that reviewed the features and gave a brief how-to. If anyone has any links, I'd love to explore.

Also... one of the things that I liked most about onenote is a canned integration with outlook - from my meeting calendar entry I could click a button and it would start a new note with the title of the meeting, the date/time, a list of attendees, etc. Does anyone do something similar in org-mode for taking meeting notes?

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by lemonberry »

jyriand wrote: post #65

Have been using org-mode for a few years now but never reached the point where I would feel comfortable. I can't find a good way to organize my files, there are at least 20-30 files in my Dropbox, some are empty, some contain random notes.

I've been struggling with this. This comment was pretty eye opening:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11386943

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