The first section of this article is called "How To Use This Document" and it immediately reminded me of: https://xkcd.com/1343/
Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text
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#172Org Mode keeps being pushed again and again, but honestly this title is one of the boldest claims I've seen about it. Just look at the document. It's a 400+kb HTML page of Emacs configurations, keybindings and other stuff that makes absolutely no sense unless you've been an avid Emacs user for years. Where is the Plain Text here? I see nothing of the sort. Sure, the output might resemble Plain Text, but it's clearly…
Agreed. I'm finding how often it's posted quite bizarre. I tried it for a while about six years ago - no idea what the enthusiasm is for.
Bed wetters in the house. The weekend is over.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly, even though it's not sold that way (it's usually promoted with links to encyclopedias like this) I think the vast majority of computer users could easily use org-mode productively without knowing anything about Emacs. 1. org-mode is already installed in Emacs. Open a .org file in Emacs and you have everything you need ready and waiting. 2. You can make an outline by putting * for first-level heading, two *…
I think you just proved my point.
I guess that's up to you, but I'd be genuinely curious as to what exactly "proves your point"? Is it the part about org-mode being installed by default? The difficulty of pressing C-c C-l? The difficulty of pushing Alt-arrow?
Be dismissive of my comment if you want, but I'm guessing you either didn't bother to read it or to understand it, because there's nothing in there that the vast majority of computer users don't already do.
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#174Having been using Emacs and org-mode for about 4 years now, I've been thinking a big mistake has been made in how the system is pitched. It's always something about it being 'plain text', which makes non-Emacs users say 'Why would I switch from my plain text editor? Or 'Why would I switch from a flashy GUI webapp version of this particular feature?' Emacs can't be appreciated for any one feature, even org mode, power…
Another difference between emacs and Office 365. The code and functionality of both are also sustained by an ecosystem.
For Office 365 that ecosystem is by and large constituted by the paid labour of workers employed by Microsoft, together with a minor subset of plugin contributors for certain applications.
For Emacs, the ecosystem includes everyone who adopts the use of emacs.
In other words, to Microsoft's system you are a customer. Microsoft may choose to adapt their system to your use case if you are lucky enough to represent a big enough user or use case. To emacs you are part of the very ecology which sustains the whole system. That's where the sense of empowerment and 'freedom' (I hate the term) comes from.
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#175It's interesting, never used it although it looks like it would require more time than it could actually save. The very best products I've encountered are the exact opposite, so easy to use that they feel like they're essentially useless.
Organising life is an abstract monster that no one has ever gotten even close solving it. The question of how do make the most out of our time in our short and unpredictable lifetimes has become somewhat intriguing and boggling to me.
Over the years I've been playing around with a architecture of a tool that would take a crack at this ambiguous challenge.
If someone's interested in trying out an early version, feel free to leave your email here. https://forms.gle/tqpuNpfdpdB3DZLi9.
Re: Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text
#176Having been using Emacs and org-mode for about 4 years now, I've been thinking a big mistake has been made in how the system is pitched. It's always something about it being 'plain text', which makes non-Emacs users say 'Why would I switch from my plain text editor? Or 'Why would I switch from a flashy GUI webapp version of this particular feature?' Emacs can't be appreciated for any one feature, even org mode, power…
That's one of he best pitch for Emacs I've ever read. I wish GNU were able to communicate that.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
cua conflicts with org, so you can't use them both together (I've been told, and googling suggests this is true)
There are a few key binding collisions, but otherwise they can be used together.
So now you are telling a noob who just wants to get some task done to start resolving key binding collisions.
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#178Lots of comments about Org mode being complicated. This link shouldn't be representative. This is the culmination of an iterative effort over years. I don't know the history behind it and not a hardcore user. But I would suggest start out with basics and building slow. Bring in what's useful and learn that well before moving on to other things. I would not drink in this entire doc all at once.
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#179It looks like some people want to spend more time organizing their life than living their life. IDK man, I already need some willpower to use Trello and looks far easier.
XKCD : Is it Worth the Time? https://xkcd.com/1205/
I love that XKCD, though the person you're responding to was talking about willpower, not time.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are now several solutions for org-mode on mobile. Organice, beorg, org-web, Orgzly etc.
They are all very nice. I really only need to capture new things on mobile for the most part, so my needs are minimal. What holds me back, however, is not supporting Google Drive for synchronization, as I use that anyway. As is, I would have to use another service like dropbox to sync mobile edits back. Wait - I see that org-web says it does sync with Google drive, so I will try that out. Seems like I can use it by s…
Capturing is very simple since it is just plain text. For example here is a guide which uses siri on iOS to capture voice notes to your org-mode inbox: https://orgmode-exocortex.com/2020/04/30/voice-capture-org-m...
There is also a guide for android https://orgmode-exocortex.com/2020/04/28/voice-capture-org-m...