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Org-mode reference card [pdf]

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Re: Org-mode reference card [pdf]

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Post by funkaster »

paultopia wrote: post #7

I keep trying to get into org mode, and it never gets a hold of me. Would love to hear what amazing things folks are doing with org mode that can't be achieved, e.g., with markdown.

for me it's the ability to publish my blog to a static set of html files (and have pretty-printed source code). The other thing I love is the agenda: having a set of files spread apart (I keep 3: personal, work, random) and add todos in there as part of free text, and be able to keep track of them in a centralized place is priceless.

I also use those files as a journal, tagging them and searching later is very easy and a great way to document things (for personal purposes).

Re: Org-mode reference card [pdf]

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Post by freshhawk »

paultopia wrote: post #7

I keep trying to get into org mode, and it never gets a hold of me. Would love to hear what amazing things folks are doing with org mode that can't be achieved, e.g., with markdown.

For me it's the editor tools. Keeping my projects/todos/etc in a text file that is organized outliner style is really good, the org specific editor commands makes changing that file easy.

Having the agenda view (calendar) generated, having sparse trees, having spreadsheet like tools, having precise and intuitive folding behaviour make it great.

I don't care at all about the whole org->html pipeline. Who cares. It's not very good and it isn't better than markdown. I get that if you are already in the org world it's nice, but it's not the reason to get into that world.

Re: Org-mode reference card [pdf]

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Post by qdot76367 »

paultopia wrote: post #7

I keep trying to get into org mode, and it never gets a hold of me. Would love to hear what amazing things folks are doing with org mode that can't be achieved, e.g., with markdown.

http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html gets posted almost every time there's an org-mode front-page link, and there's good reason for that. I've been working in org-mode since 2006-2007, and it's still the most complete, single-page view integration I've seen of the project into someone's life. Sacha Chau (http://sachachua.com/blog/) is also a fantastic resource for information on org-mode, just a bit more spread out across years of posts.

So, yeah, with 10 years of org-mode experience behind me, I still don't feel like it's smooth yet. I never got the hang of clocking. The lack of stable integrations to the outside world are what kill me. Yes, there's been mobile apps from mobileorg to orgzly to new ones I don't know about, but none have ever really nailed the interface. Calendar syncing is iffy, and breaks often. I still use org-mode for notes, blogs, writing, etc, and my emacs config is org-babel'd, which is a fantastic literate programming environment. I'm even working on a small package to export org-mode to gitbook format (http://github.com/qdot/org-gitbook, don't get your hopes up yet as right now it's just 2 small functions, but it does work). org-trello integration (https://org-trello.github.io/) is getting me closer to what I want, but that still means bouncing org -> trello -> other services, which isn't exactly ergonomic.

I would love if org-mode could be my full memex implementation, but there's parts that just aren't there quite yet. Since part of the package is still extremely useful to me, I'll certainly keep trying.

Re: Org-mode reference card [pdf]

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Post by systems »

paultopia wrote: post #7

I keep trying to get into org mode, and it never gets a hold of me. Would love to hear what amazing things folks are doing with org mode that can't be achieved, e.g., with markdown.

step 1 install or-mode

    M-x package-install RET org RET
Step 2 add this to your .emacs files

    ;;;;org-mode configuration
    ;; Enable org-mode
    (require 'org)
    ;; Make org-mode work with files ending in .org
    ;;(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org$" . org-mode))
    ;; The above is the default in recent emacsen
    ;; The following lines are always needed.  Choose your    own keys.
    (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org\\'" . org-mode))
    (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
    (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
    (global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb)

    ;; set todo configuration in org-mode
    (setq org-todo-keywords
          '((sequence "TODO" "IN-PROGRESS" "WAITING" "|" "NTD" "DONE")))
    (setq org-log-done 'time)

    ;; Hide leading stars
    (setq org-startup-indented t
          org-hide-leading-stars t)
Step 3 create a .org file

    c-x c-f first.org
Step 4 create your first node in your first file

    alt-enter
Step 5 play with your nodes

    ;; cycle through todo list progress: todo in-progress done etc..
    shift left and right 
    ;; promote and demote nodes
    alt left and right
    ;; expand and colapse
    tab
    ;; create more nodes
    alt-enter
your done!!

Re: Org-mode reference card [pdf]

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Post by mickael-kerjean »

vim-guru wrote: post #10
paultopia wrote: post #7

I keep trying to get into org mode, and it never gets a hold of me. Would love to hear what amazing things folks are doing with org mode that can't be achieved, e.g., with markdown.

That list would be never-ending, but the thing that really makes it for me is the way you can do literate programming. On the other hand, I can rarely use it because my colleagues don't use Emacs

There's a guys who wrote an integration with trello for the todo feature. It's working great :) Sure you have to pull and push manually but still it's awesome
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