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Org-trello: Trello for org-mode

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Re: Org-trello: Trello for org-mode

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Post by mmaul »

johnbellone wrote: post #3

The last few days I have been getting my teeth back into org-mode. It was originally one of the best parts about using Emacs over vim. Since I have to carry around a mobile device (or tablet) it's become much less useful to me. In fact to get the same experience I have been using a bullet journal[1] for a year or two now. I want to love org-mode, but I spent the better part of a week using it to write a deck only to…

Regarding the Power Point thing you might want to check out Beamer. It is a extension for publishing presentations from org mode. http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/beamer/tutorial.html

Re: Org-trello: Trello for org-mode

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Post by TeMPOraL »

markhellewell wrote: post #14
agentultra wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've used org-mode to publish books, pocket mods, invoice clients, run tabletop games, organize links and snippets... while text is supposedly the universal interface in the Unix world it does have limitations when it comes to sharing information across devices. I carry my laptop with me so this isn't a problem for me but I know it's there and not yet solved. A mobile org-mode client with cloud sharing would go a lon…

MobileOrg[1] was good for a while—it had Dropbox and WebDAV support—but it hasn’t had an update in a couple of years and is badly in need of a new maintainer. [1] https://github.com/MobileOrg/mobileorg

Dropbox support was cool, but I recall MobileOrg being buggy to the point of making it completely useless, not to mention pretty bad UI. This project really needs some love.

Re: Org-trello: Trello for org-mode

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Post by melling »

agentultra wrote: post #12
johnbellone wrote: post #3

The last few days I have been getting my teeth back into org-mode. It was originally one of the best parts about using Emacs over vim. Since I have to carry around a mobile device (or tablet) it's become much less useful to me. In fact to get the same experience I have been using a bullet journal[1] for a year or two now. I want to love org-mode, but I spent the better part of a week using it to write a deck only to…

I've used org-mode to publish books, pocket mods, invoice clients, run tabletop games, organize links and snippets... while text is supposedly the universal interface in the Unix world it does have limitations when it comes to sharing information across devices. I carry my laptop with me so this isn't a problem for me but I know it's there and not yet solved. A mobile org-mode client with cloud sharing would go a lon…

Until something better comes along, use GitHub. It'll render org files.

I've created a couple short-cuts on my iPad:

bex #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE

eex #+END_EXAMPLE

Re: Org-trello: Trello for org-mode

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Post by dddrh »

johnbellone wrote: post #3

The last few days I have been getting my teeth back into org-mode. It was originally one of the best parts about using Emacs over vim. Since I have to carry around a mobile device (or tablet) it's become much less useful to me. In fact to get the same experience I have been using a bullet journal[1] for a year or two now. I want to love org-mode, but I spent the better part of a week using it to write a deck only to…

I've also been using the bullet journal format for the better part of a year. It's a phenomenal way to stay organized and keep information at hand. It makes quick capture easy and I don't have to worry about losing where I put it later.

If you think in lists or bullet points and have had success with mindmaps then give the bullet journal a try.

Re: Org-trello: Trello for org-mode

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Post by gecko »

aidos wrote: post #9
gecko wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you give me an idea what keyboard shortcuts you were looking for you didn't have? I have no affiliation with Trello; I'm just curious, since they've been a good fit for my use patterns, and it'd probably be relatively easy to convince the team to add some new ones.

I think it's actually the context of where you're working - the highlighted card could be anywhere on your board. Eg - open Trello - go to bottom of a list and click Add a card - type the name, - to leave the adding cards box - 'e' for edit, but actually, you're on the first card in the first list - to leave the editor on the wrong card - click on the card you want to edit (or arrow over / down until you get to it an…

Meh, I'm friends with the team and stopping by the office tomorrow anyway, so I figured I'd save you a step.

Re: Org-trello: Trello for org-mode

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Post by bachmeier »

johnbellone wrote: post #3

The last few days I have been getting my teeth back into org-mode. It was originally one of the best parts about using Emacs over vim. Since I have to carry around a mobile device (or tablet) it's become much less useful to me. In fact to get the same experience I have been using a bullet journal[1] for a year or two now. I want to love org-mode, but I spent the better part of a week using it to write a deck only to…

I use org-mode every single day for scheduling and programming. The problem I've got with org-mode is that it is the most unstable project I've ever seen that wasn't considered to be in beta status.

Not only do they change things all the time, making old documentation useless, they'll break things and provide no documentation. For example, I used to use Beamer export for presentations. Then they changed to the new exporter without giving any explanation of how to use it.

I now use Pandoc for things like presentations. It just works for the most part. And importantly, there's actually documentation, as opposed to scraps scattered around the internet that might sort of do what you need if they're sufficiently recent.

Re: Org-trello: Trello for org-mode

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Post by johnbellone »

brudgers wrote: post #18
johnbellone wrote: post #3

The last few days I have been getting my teeth back into org-mode. It was originally one of the best parts about using Emacs over vim. Since I have to carry around a mobile device (or tablet) it's become much less useful to me. In fact to get the same experience I have been using a bullet journal[1] for a year or two now. I want to love org-mode, but I spent the better part of a week using it to write a deck only to…

Just out of curiosity, is Power Point really a critical component of your use? Don't get me wrong, there are advantages to using PowerPoint. But the big goal is to prepare information with a computer and then to present that information in various forms. In terms of the big goal, PowerPoint compatibility can be an XY problem. It's one possible means [and perhaps the best means] to the end. There are alternatives...an…

Yes, it absolutely is.

Re: Org-trello: Trello for org-mode

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Post by aidenn0 »

aidos wrote: post #6

Nice! Unfortunately, as a vim user this isn't much use to me. My co-founder and I actually discussed this idea when we started using trello a few months ago. Our idea was that it would be great if you could have a yaml version of your board to play around with and load back in to the system. Trello is a real pain to load with data, especially when bulk loading cards in to the system when you first start using it. It…

With vim's python integration it shouldn't be too hard to add this; the elisp code for org-trello is reasonablly straightforward. I submitted a patch for a bug I found in org-trello when I first used it; it was the first elisp code I'd written.
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