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

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Post by peatmoss »

BellsOnSunday wrote: post #176
peatmoss wrote: post #170

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Fellow academic org-writers unite! Org is a great place to write papers. Unlike Markdown, which some people present as another alternative, Org supports cross-references. Also, being able to do complicated stuff by dropping back to LaTeX is a boon.

Why not just use AUCTeX?

Because org-mode targets far more than than LaTeX/PDF in its standard case, isn't itself Turing complete, and supports vastly more stuff including literate programming in a huge number of languages.

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

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Post by groks »

rys wrote: post #53
preek wrote: post #47

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This is exactly why I moved from Evernote to org-mode. I've been a paying user for years with thousands of notes - also important legal documents. Right now, the experience was pretty good, but how will it be in 10-40 years? I'm not going to store everything on paper, as well, just to make sure. The org-mode experience is better, yet totally future proof, because it's just flat text files.

How did you handle importing binary data you had in Evernote into org-mode? I've got a bunch of PDFs, images and other non-text data in my Evernote workbooks that I'd need to take care of.

org-mode has the concept of attachments which you can use for pdfs, images etc.

http://orgmode.org/manual/Attachments.html

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

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Post by morbidhawk »

I switched from using org-mode a long time ago and now I strictly use markdown. I find doing simple things like including links, referencing images, and code blocks are so much easier in markdown and I never have to look up how to do something if I stop using it for a while

MARKDOWN:

    ```python

   #code

   ```

   [Google](http://google.com)

   ![Image ALT text](path/to/image.png "Title Text")
ORG-MODE:

   #+BEGIN_SRC python

   #code

   #+END_SRC

   [[http://google.com][Google]]

   #+CAPTION: Image caption

   [[path/to/image.png]]

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

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Post by amasad »

atemerev wrote: post #111
amasad wrote: post #90

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Moving around will help blood flow and will get you to release the static contraction (or switch muscles). That affects your forearm, wrists etc and I don't think has anything to do with your fingers. For me, keeping at the home position limits wrist contortions that I associated with my increased pain.

This is a huge mistake. Some of my friends got RSI this way. You have to move your _arms_ when typing, not only your wrists.

Citation/explanation needed.

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

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Post by groks »

calebm wrote: post #175

I love plain text, and like the idea of having notes in one place, but I use tons of pictures when taking notes (like taking screenshots of online class whiteboards). Evernote is awesome for this kind of note taking. Is there an easy way to add images to Org Mode notes? Or would I have to manually move the image to the right directory, copy the path, and paste it into the Ord Mode note?

No problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahqKXbBVjpQ

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

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Post by mrbill »

preek wrote: post #31

I've switched to Emacs after 14 years of Vim (with the required evangelism^^). Initially it was because of Clojure, but then I tried org-mode. Now my GTD Setup (formerly Things.app), Notes for everything (formerly Evernote), Time Tracking (formerly Minco), Pomodoro Technique as well as writing slide decks (I'm a part time lecturer, so I do that a lot) are _all_ within org-mode. And not, because it's hipster, but beca…

The only thing that keeps me from being able to move away from Evernote is the oh-so-convenient Web Clipper that lets me save web pages/order receipts/etc (anything in the browser) with a right-click, and not having to "print to pdf" or anything like that.

I would love suggestions for alternatives. I've been keeping a plaintext "notes" file as well for damn year 20 years, but am thinking about reorganizing it into OrgMode.

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

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Post by mpwoz »

melling wrote: post #119
MarcScott wrote: post #86

Most comments here seem to focus on the notes and GTD side of org-mode. For me, org-mode is my go to markup language. So much so that I now find writing in Markdown to be almost painful. A few of my favourite features are: - Tables are amazingly easy in org-mode, with spreadsheet features thrown in as well. - Code snippets can be written in their own major mode, giving me syntax highlighting, auto completion and the…

I've been using Github and org-mode to organize a lot of the notes that I collect. It's great to be able to edit notes directly on Github from a laptop, iPhone, or iPad browser. https://github.com/melling/ios_topics https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages

As far as I know you can edit any text file from the github web ui. Unless you mean that it should support org-mode features in a browser?

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

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Post by Jaepa »

groovy2shoes wrote: post #158
pzone wrote: post #146

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You can choose a different leader key in your .spacemacs and then bind space to whatever else you wish.

But then it's not space macs anymore, right? It'd be commamacs or something? ;)

Comma is used for a leader for the major mode. Of course it can be changed, as well. Everything is configurable.

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

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Post by type0 »

_lbaq wrote: post #42
mmel wrote: post #26

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

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.

Yeah, that's why org-mode is so great, it's future proof. My dream format would be a mix between org-mode and asciidoc.

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

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Post by shoover »

preek wrote: post #74
MarcScott wrote: post #66

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I used to keep lots of stuff in Evernote, and when I switched to org-mode, I did an HTML export from Evernote and then wrote an awful Python script to convert the HTML to org-mode. I'm pretty sure all the binary data appears as links in the exported html.

Would you be so kind as to share this Python script? I'd be happy to give it a shot^^

Try pandoc -f html -t org-mode.
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