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Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by mercer »

madballster wrote: post #49

I see a lot of comments arguing that it's not "worth it" to spend dozens of hours to "get into org-mode" when there are "intuitive tools" such as Evernote or Trello or Todoist etc. What some are missing is the fact that low barriers to entry sometimes turn into barriers to growth at a later stage. After (!) one has sunk thousands of hours into them. I used to keep my academic notes in Evernote and it turned into hell…

I'm a Vim guy but with Spacemacs it was easy to get into Emacs. The spacebar action to see following actions (whatever it's called) really helped me figure out what the keyboard shortcuts were for various commands, or it just told me the exact name of said command.

There isn't a single piece of software that has replaced as many other tools, or simplified or otherwise benefited me as much as Emac+OrgMode.

OrgMode is what I now use for:

- journalling

- time-tracking

- project management

- various almost-literate-programming tasks

- calendaring, to a very extensive degree

I could probably spend a good few paragraphs explaining how making a note in my 'knowledge base' file can be given a due date so it shows up in my calendar, etc., but I'll just say that Emacs+OrgMode has effectively replaced:

- iCal

- Twitter

- DayOne (personal journalling)

- Toggl

- Journler

- OmniFocus

- Reminder/whatever-app-is-on-my-android-phone

- and probably a few more

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Post by trail2runner »

nanna wrote: post #53
spaniard89277 wrote: post #2

It 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.

Trello will forever be the relatively slow, clunky, time-sucking platform that it is. In org mode you get faster, more efficient and more powerful as you develop, which means you don't need to summon that willpower.

I use Restyaboard for years now. It's much better and effective than Trello.

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Post by vendroo »

girzel wrote: post #155
vendroo wrote: post #139

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I have been using Emacs/Orgmode for a year. Can you point me to a setup/configuration about your workflow? I am in enterprise sales too. Thanks much

Shameless plug: I wrote a package called Gnorb that is meant to tie Org and Gnus more closely together, precisely for this sort of project management. It's in the ELPA repository.

Thanks for your suggestion, I will explore the package.

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Post by bwbmr »

nmarriott wrote: post #226
bwbmr wrote: post #224

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Big mosh user here myself. How do you deal with tmux limiting window size to the lowest common denominator device? I usually run a little bash script manually to disconnect other tmux sessions whenever I switch devices, which gets annoying. Also which app for Apple Notes exports do you use?

tmux can be configured not to limit the window size since tmux 2.9, and it is the default since tmux 3.1.

Thanks- was using through byobu wrappers, need to check what version is on our company machines. Edit: 2.7, so that explains it.

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Post by hi_im_miles »

spaniard89277 wrote: post #2

It 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.

For me, organizing stuff is something I enjoy to a point where I'd consider it "living my life". I get a lot of joy out of using emacs/org mode every day, but I can also totally understand someone who doesn't.

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Post by truncate »

slothtrop wrote: post #103
truncate wrote: post #19

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Hah, as much as I wanted org-mode to work for me, I realized I'm spending more time on building a framework for organizing my time than probably actually organizing my time. And it's never over. Sync all my calendars, OS notifications (considering the time it would take me to walk/drive), sync all this in mobile/iPad and be able to edit effectively there, and the list goes on. Laptop/Mobile notifications are the bigg…

I imagine the difference is that tinkering is the appeal, for some. I like optimization as a hobby within reason but if you aren't getting anywhere quickly it hardly feels optimal. That said, I've yet to try org mode, just emacs.

Yes. I'm definitely a tinkerer, and have spent hours configuring my Emacs just the way I want. However, its super addicting and often you'll find yourself doing things with little ROI. A 20 yo me, would have definitely hacked till death, now almost 30 with job and hobbies outside tech I've to more thoughtful about ROI about the things I do (I swear if Emacs LSP doesn't perform well in emacs27, I'm going VSCode path -- and there's my unrelated rant).
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