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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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chemag wrote: post #124
dangom wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are very right that other lightweight markup languages could provide syntax for everything that org-mode does. But what would possibly interpret that syntax? The fact that org-mode is tied to Emacs is both its weakness but also its strength. By sitting on the Emacs interpreter, org-mode imposes no limits to what you can achieve. The synergy with other Emacs packages is enormous. You also forgot to mention one of…

I can see some of the benefits of the integration: emacs can do the horizontal search for TODO entries, create an agenda, let you edit it, and move the changes to the right .org file. Still, I'd argue that the file is the important thing here, not the tool to manage it. I should be able to edit .org files with any other tool (e.g. an android app that eventually modifies a .org file in github), and then do re-process…

Well, you can edit it in any text editor. You just don't get the automatic formatting, coloring, table calculations and so on that all depend on elisp.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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AsyncAwait wrote: post #86
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.

I was wondering just a few days ago whether building a nice Mac desktop app or maybe a web app, akin to Ulysses, but for Org file writing/editing, exporting etc. would be a viable idea and whether it could eat some of Markdown's marketshare by not being tied to Emacs, which is why I feel most people don't pick it up. Would that be something the HN crowd would be interested in?

It strikes me that if you want "org-mode lite", you would use Workflowy. This isn't meant as a criticism of Workflowy at all, they do a great job making a lot of the org-mode ideas accessible. But if I'm using org-mode, it's because I want the extensibility of emacs.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by stinkytaco »

taude wrote: post #69

i used to use org-mode a lot back in the day, but I lost my emacs config, and since then haven't really gone back. I always have a fond memory of organizing my tech life with org-mode, though. It was truly ahead of its time, but I feel there's better tools for the job now, that specialize in doing each of the many things org-mode does, but better. Some alternatives I used off and on for a bit: * NValt * Respose Notes…

Just to play counterpoint to this, these features being available in various tools is precisely why I like org mode. Workflowy has always struck me as "org-lite", and plain tasks for sublime is also a good package, as is nvalt. But the combination of org-velocity or deft and org give me all that in an integrated tool. The only thing I don't get is the clipping ability of Evernote. Plus my data is my own, not locked into someone else's ecosystem.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by stinkytaco »

Jtsummers wrote: post #26
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.

I started with simple outlines. Then started using `TODO` and similar states to track tasks and projects, along with checklists. There's a ton that I never use, I'm honestly only using the following 95% of the time: * Headline 1 [1/2] ** TODO Headline 2 [2/4] :tag1:tag2: - [ ] Some incomplete task - [X] Some other task - [ ] [[http://example.com][Only this part shows]] - [X] C-c C-c will toggle the state ** DONE Head…

> OTOH, if Sublime and markdown works for you, keep using it. Nothing beats a functioning tool, in the end.

I don't understand. You can just use a tool and not fiddle with it constantly? Tell me of this strange way of working.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by hyperhopper »

My big question with org mode is how to really handle todos. Should I always capture tasks into one big file? When I finish them, do I just leave them for this file to grow forever with more tasks being done and having to hunt for the todos in the file unless I use agenda view?

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by stinkytaco »

nickpeterson wrote: post #3

Org-mode is on my list of things I should probably learn better, but never seem to get around to. Here are some entries in that list: Emacs Regex Latex Bash/Terminal/Powershell Unicode APL/J/K Linear Algebra Category Theory

Well, org-mode is a pretty decent replacement for LaTeX. You can do most of the basic formatting, plus it supports specialty LaTeX syntax when org-mode is not sufficient.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by caboteria »

hyperhopper wrote: post #136

My big question with org mode is how to really handle todos. Should I always capture tasks into one big file? When I finish them, do I just leave them for this file to grow forever with more tasks being done and having to hunt for the todos in the file unless I use agenda view?

You can move no-longer-useful data into an archive file: http://orgmode.org/manual/Archiving.html

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by nul_byte »

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.

Me too. I had a spate where I went over to using emacs (built my own setup around spacemacs). It was very powerful, and I found stuff like helm, projectile very nice (org-mode with export to reveal.js was sexy as hell). But then I just dropped it all and went back to vim again.

For me it seems to be down to the following. When I am working with vim, I feel like I am in the same eco-system as my shell, there is a really nice continuity, whereas emacs feels like a separate entity (almost like I have an separate instance of a word processor open). I am aware emacs can be run in the shell without its GUI, but it still felt like it was separately sitting its own world.

For org stuff, I now use taskwarrior [1], which embeds into vim using taskwiki [2] and vimwiki [3] (which provides markdown export)

[1] https://taskwarrior.org/

[2] https://github.com/tbabej/taskwiki

[3] https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

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