Emacs Org-Mode: for Notes, Project Planning, and Authoring
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Re: Emacs Org-Mode: for Notes, Project Planning, and Authoring
#2Wow. That's similar in vein to the project I've been working on slowly on the side for about a month now: http://bulletxt.com - it currently saves your notes via browser session but I'm working on making it like pastebin and having an account system. It'll be very much like a typical text-editor with the ability to sort tasks via drag-drop, copy-paste, and share task subtrees.
I highly doubt the emacs-type will end up using my app but it feels good to see I'm not the only one who has a need for organizing nested todo lists. I can't for the life of me figure out how everyone can deal with 1-level deep task lists.
Re: Emacs Org-Mode: for Notes, Project Planning, and Authoring
#3Wow. That's similar in vein to the project I've been working on slowly on the side for about a month now: http://bulletxt.com - it currently saves your notes via browser session but I'm working on making it like pastebin and having an account system. It'll be very much like a typical text-editor with the ability to sort tasks via drag-drop, copy-paste, and share task subtrees. I highly doubt the emacs-type will end u…
I'm looking for a new todo list tool at the moment. How would it work for a vaguely GTD style?
Re: Emacs Org-Mode: for Notes, Project Planning, and Authoring
#4Wow. That's similar in vein to the project I've been working on slowly on the side for about a month now: http://bulletxt.com - it currently saves your notes via browser session but I'm working on making it like pastebin and having an account system. It'll be very much like a typical text-editor with the ability to sort tasks via drag-drop, copy-paste, and share task subtrees. I highly doubt the emacs-type will end u…
I'm looking for a new todo list tool at the moment. How would it work for a vaguely GTD style?
You would be able to create pages (tabs) and organize them. You can create tasks and subtasks within them. Press 'tab' to indent (i.e. make a subtask). And when you want a task+subtasks out of your mind & sight, click the [-] or press [`] key to hide. There will be a 'completed tasks' list for each page with some started/completion date info. I might put some deadline/highlight/bold options per task but haven't thought about it fully yet.
It will vaguely do GTD like you put it but I don't think it will be a vitalist.com or even a simplegtd.com replacement. I don't think GTD itself is perfect and wrote untodos.com a year ago with 'today/soon/whenever' sections to help sort my life but it wasn't enough. What I really wanted was a place to immediately jot down my thoughts without any hassle when I was brainstorming and later sort them when I'm in a more organized mood. Hence there is no 'save' button in bulletxt (though you will have unlimited undo.)
Re: Emacs Org-Mode: for Notes, Project Planning, and Authoring
#5A few highlights not mentioned on the front page:
* render latex fragments inline (thanks to auctex)
* embed & run code (python, ruby, haskell, R, etc)
* text-mode spreadsheet (including cell functions)
* render ascii-art drawings to png (combine with M-x artist-mode)
* export via latex to pdf or html
Re: Emacs Org-Mode: for Notes, Project Planning, and Authoring
#6Is there something similar to it for vim?
Re: Emacs Org-Mode: for Notes, Project Planning, and Authoring
#7It's strange, but a simple text file always served my needs for TODO lists, even including notes and other information related to the TODOs. It is not pretty, but I do not have trouble finding my TODOs amidst the rest of the noise, since I am consistent with my left-side "start of a TODO line" and "start of a subTODO" symbols. Sometimes I think that having a neat, pretty TODO list program would be nice, but I learned that I find my text files much more portable (Notes on iPhone, a txt on Mac, txt in linux, txt on my Windows desktop).
Re: Emacs Org-Mode: for Notes, Project Planning, and Authoring
#8Is there something similar to it for vim?
According to a Google Tech Talk by the creator, a few people have switched from vi to emacs to get org-mode. The obvious implication is that there is nothing comparable for vi. However, the talk was in July of 2008, so maybe someone has created something since then.
Here is a link to the talk: http://orgmode.org/GoogleTech.html
Re: Emacs Org-Mode: for Notes, Project Planning, and Authoring
#9Is there something similar to it for vim?
I've been working on a todo list app for vim, loosely based on org mode. It doesn't cover many of org mode's features right now, but if you want to take a look anyway, the source is at http://git.mivok.net/gitweb/?p=vimtodo.git;a=summary
Re: Emacs Org-Mode: for Notes, Project Planning, and Authoring
#10Is there something similar to it for vim?
According to a Google Tech Talk by the creator, a few people have switched from vi to emacs to get org-mode. The obvious implication is that there is nothing comparable for vi. However, the talk was in July of 2008, so maybe someone has created something since then. Here is a link to the talk: http://orgmode.org/GoogleTech.html
I'd be one of those.
I used vi/vim for about fifteen years before playing around with org-mode (and magit and a few other tools). After that, I felt like I'd been missing out on a lot of useful stuff.
That was about a year ago. I'm still fluent in vi (which I use sometimes), but I can get far more done far more quickly in emacs.
And I track it in org-mode. :) (which also has a view of my current google and exchange calendars and automatically saves all edits in a git repo and pushes it off my box for synchronization/backup/history).