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Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by alphapapa »

dredmorbius wrote: post #11
nextos wrote: post #4

It's worth noting a great Android client for org-mode has been recently open sourced: http://www.orgzly.com/ https://github.com/orgzly https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/com.orgzly It was a little annoyance we did not have anything as good as this before.

An even better Android client for org-mode: 1. Install the Termux app. 2. Install the Termux API app. 3. Install the Termux api CLI tools via apt. You now have access to clipboard. 4. Install Emacs within termux. Termux offers an apt-based package management system, and a substantial, though partial, set of Debian-based packages. (592 packages as I write this -- a full Debian archive is >60k packages now.) There are…

How's the speed? I mean, I use use-package and a bunch of init file optimizations to get Emacs startup time as low as possible, but I can't imagine it being tolerable on my phone. And opening the agenda across my standard set of files would probably be awful.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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amackera wrote: post #36

Every time I see something about org-mode posted, I get mad FOMO and decide to re-dedicate my life to learning emacs and everything it has to offer. Then a little while later I inevitably drift back to vim. It's getting to the point where I need to just ignore cool stuff like this post in order to get on with my life.

Five years ago I have started to use Emacs after I saw some cool org-mode demos in hopes of utilizing some of its power in my organization and task management. I've been using Emacs daily for every programming task since then, but diving into org-mode is still on my to do list...

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by tombert »

Org-mode is one of those things that I regret not learning about when I used Emacs full-time. I've had a few friends now show me how it's completely changed their workflow, but since it's not terribly popular in Vim-land (though I am aware there is a port to Vim), I haven't really had a chance to really learn it.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by JohnStrange »

I tried to get into org mode and even ordered the printed manual, but it was just too much configuration work and shortcut memorizing, to be honest. Maybe another time. For now I've reverted to using an Action Day Planner[1] and Leuchtturm1917[2] notebooks with numbered pages for notes, and I'm fairly happy with this system.

In hindsight, given the many things I've tried, email + pencil&paper is still hard to beat.

[1] http://www.actionday.com [2] https://www.leuchtturm1917.us/

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by itamarst »

amackera wrote: post #36

Every time I see something about org-mode posted, I get mad FOMO and decide to re-dedicate my life to learning emacs and everything it has to offer. Then a little while later I inevitably drift back to vim. It's getting to the point where I need to just ignore cool stuff like this post in order to get on with my life.

Try http://spacemacs.org with Evil mode - vi keybindings, all the power of emacs, and emacs pre-configured to work well out of the box.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by wcummings »

nextos wrote: post #4

It's worth noting a great Android client for org-mode has been recently open sourced: http://www.orgzly.com/ https://github.com/orgzly https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/com.orgzly It was a little annoyance we did not have anything as good as this before.

Does it support syncing over git yet? It didn't last I checked.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by baldfat »

badminton1 wrote: post #17
dredmorbius wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would that be this? https://jupyter.org/ (Your comment could be substantially improved by pointing to the source, and perhaps explaining why the tool is preferable, in your view.)

It is a very well known project, I didn't feel the need to introduce it. You can see some demos here: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/A-gallery-of-interes... It's free/open source and can embed lots of different technologies: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter-kernels I think Jupyter is very powerful, the learning curve is lower, and you can share your documents in an easy way if you need to.

It is very well known as IPython which is now on referring to the kernel of (Interactive Python). Project Jupyter is the name for the Notebook and it has access to many different kernels and is language agnostic now.

Your comment is condescending and not very informative.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by ageofwant »

tombert wrote: post #44

Org-mode is one of those things that I regret not learning about when I used Emacs full-time. I've had a few friends now show me how it's completely changed their workflow, but since it's not terribly popular in Vim-land (though I am aware there is a port to Vim), I haven't really had a chance to really learn it.

Check out http://spacemacs.org/. Adding the org layer is a one-liner: 'org' in dotspacemacs-configuration-layers.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by alphapapa »

baby wrote: post #15

Every time I try to get into org-mode, I just don't get where to start and how to do things. So I end up going back to Sublime text, creating markdown files to take my notes, works well.

The first time I decided to start using Org, I printed out the reference card with all the keyboard shortcuts...and quickly gave up. But I hadn't learned Emacs itself yet, so trying to learn to use Org without really knowing how to use Emacs didn't work.

Later, I learned Emacs itself, and then learning Org was much easier, because I could look up functions and keys and variables and customizations, etc. from within Emacs. As some other people said, I just learned a little bit at a time as I used Org. Eventually, after customizing it and even making a couple of Org-related packages, it's become my own system that works the way I want it to. And I will probably use it for the rest of my life. That's one of the beautiful things about Emacs and Org.

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