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Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Post by sva_ »

amake wrote: post #156
elwell wrote: post #3

I use Notes mostly, because it's synced to my phone and I can paste images (usually screenshots) in it easily.

I made an org-mode viewer for iOS and Android. It can load from anything that supports the standard file access API (so Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.). https://orgro.org

I'd absolutely buy this if you made it support inline LaTeX fragment rendering (as emacs does[1]). Without it, it's sadly fairly useless for me as a math student. A subset of LaTeX would be sufficient, such as that supplied by KaTeX[2]

[1] https://orgmode.org/manual/Previewing-LaTeX-fragments.html

[2] https://katex.org/

Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Post by random_cynic »

iLemming wrote: post #115
gandalfgeek wrote: post #108

Whenever there's an Emacs thread on HN, I want to post the following quote from Neal Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line": "It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it only edits straight ASCII text files, which is to say, no fonts, no boldface, no underlining. In other words, the engineer-hours that, in the case of Microsoft Word, were devo…

> emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars What makes Emacs genuinely great? Not that it was built a long time ago and withstood the test of time. Not the fact that it is absolutely free to use, distribute and extend. Not that it doesn't have tons of bugs (it does), or has superb support for every known programming language (it does not). To understa…

Get a job.

Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Post by O_H_E »

jonathanstrange wrote: post #159

Whenever there's an Emacs thread I feel really bad like an impostor, because I'm using Emacs daily for work and hobby for the past 15 years now and still only use only 5 to 10 functions regularly. Heck, I can't even remember the keyboard combo for getting help about a mode. When I have to install a new package, I use Melpa and copy&paste init code for the .emacs file from the web. If it doesn't work or breaks, I usua…

Yeah, I firmly believe more software should be built on top of emacs to leverage its power and expressiveness behind a dicoverable interface for people who are too busy or have a life.

Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Post by Lammy »

zetalemur wrote: post #141
Lammy wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for introducing me to the term "umwelt". Over the past few years I've come to believe there's no such thing as objective reality at all—that it just feels that way when enough subjective viewers agree about what is true—and it's amazing to have a word for this for the first time.

Note that "Umwelt" is just the german word for "Environment" (or "Surrounding") - which actually fits in this context.

I was including the whole academic background around this usage that I can use as a conversation springboard, but thanks for teaching me a second thing today :)

Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Post by MichaelMoser123 »

episode0x01 wrote: post #170
theodcr wrote: post #134

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Not that great in my experience, good enough to read and navigate through org files, but lacks many features and has performance issues. vimwiki https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki is probably the best note-taking plugin for vim.

I've been using vimwiki daily for the past month after I saw it mentioned here on HN. It's really changed a lot and has replaced the method I had before that involved VScode markdown snippets. It's nice to be able to directly link between my diary / task lists and my general knowledge base that contains code snippets and information about my projects, etc.

i am still trying to figure: how is that any better than having the stuff as indented text, or writing it downs as markdown?

Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Post by iLemming »

zucker42 wrote: post #142
iLemming wrote: post #115

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> emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars What makes Emacs genuinely great? Not that it was built a long time ago and withstood the test of time. Not the fact that it is absolutely free to use, distribute and extend. Not that it doesn't have tons of bugs (it does), or has superb support for every known programming language (it does not). To understa…

This comment almost reads like a joke.

Same. Ironically, recursion is one of the main features pioneered in Lisp.

Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Post by deleuze »

bananamerica wrote: post #152
deleuze wrote: post #104

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IMO Emacs is better at being Vim than Vim

One thing I like more about Vim is that its ideal for quick edits in the command line. I don't my whole Emacs init for that. Maintaining two sets of configurations on Emacs is not as simple as it should be.

Run Emacs as a daemon/server and then connect with emacsclient in the terminal. Will start up in about the same time as Vim.

Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Post by iLemming »

random_cynic wrote: post #182
iLemming wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars What makes Emacs genuinely great? Not that it was built a long time ago and withstood the test of time. Not the fact that it is absolutely free to use, distribute and extend. Not that it doesn't have tons of bugs (it does), or has superb support for every known programming language (it does not). To understa…

Get a job.

I have a job. But thank you for your concern.

Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Post by amake »

sva_ wrote: post #181
amake wrote: post #156

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I made an org-mode viewer for iOS and Android. It can load from anything that supports the standard file access API (so Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.). https://orgro.org

I'd absolutely buy this if you made it support inline LaTeX fragment rendering (as emacs does[1]). Without it, it's sadly fairly useless for me as a math student. A subset of LaTeX would be sufficient, such as that supplied by KaTeX[2] [1] https://orgmode.org/manual/Previewing-LaTeX-fragments.html [2] https://katex.org/

There is a TeX package for Flutter so that might be doable.

https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_tex

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