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Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3
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Re: Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3
#22Offtopic, but everytime I want to try Sublime I check to see if it can edit files on remote systems via SSH and it can't. Well you can if you install some package on the remote systems but that's clunky and doesn't count. I'll continue using Emacs.
I tried sshfs but it's a bear when searching a large remote repository (dev environment is on a t2.micro EC2 instance with a repository of a couple hundred megs, including assets).
What I've been doing instead is using the rsync-ssh plugin https://github.com/davidolrik/sublime-rsync-ssh
I keep a local copy of the repo, which allows me to work even without access to the cloud dev environment and makes searching orders of magnitude quicker, but still saves changes to the remote environment whenever I save a file in Sublime.
It's not perfect, but works well enough for my current workflow, so thought I'd share.
Re: Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3
#23Kudos to the author for trying to bring org mode to a wider audience. It was definitely the gateway drug to Emacs for me, and now that I've been using org for awhile I honestly can't see myself ever switching to another personal task manager/productivity tool. I always recommend it to others, but alas, the Emacs barrier is too big for most to overcome. I do have one suggestion: don't try to emulate the feature set of…
How does your agenda view differ from the default?
I combined a few different views into one using Bernt Hansen's custom agenda as a starting point (http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#CustomAgendaViews). It includes everything I need - schedule for today, a list of projects, stuck projects, etc... Typically I will just go by today's schedule, but it is invaluable having my list of projects on the same screen so I can just tab over in a separate buffer to the actual org file if I need more detail (or if I want to see notes for a given project).
Re: Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3
#24Kudos to the author for trying to bring org mode to a wider audience. It was definitely the gateway drug to Emacs for me, and now that I've been using org for awhile I honestly can't see myself ever switching to another personal task manager/productivity tool. I always recommend it to others, but alas, the Emacs barrier is too big for most to overcome. I do have one suggestion: don't try to emulate the feature set of…
How does your agenda view differ from the default?
Not the parent poster, but I have custom agendas too. The two I use the most are "Today" and "Weekly review". "Today" has the ordinary day agenda block, but sprinkled with habits tracking, as well as the separate list of NEXT actions, sorted by priority and complexity. The view is structured to answer the "What should I be doing right now?" very quickly.
The "Weekly review" is made for a (slightly tweaked) GTD review. It allows me to review all the finished tasks in one plays, which I archive or refile for future reference (this is to mitigate the downside of mixing TODOs with notes --- you might lose important info when you archive a DONE task). Next block reviews the tasks where I'm waiting on something or someone. I can update their status and close them if whatever I was waiting on has happened. Then there are new tasks from my inbox (org-capture) that I refile and assign priorities/schedules/deadlines too. Then there is the agenda for the next week, so I have a chance to plan my work and schedule more tasks if I have the capacity. Then there is the review of all the NEXT actions. Then there are the SOMEDAY tasks, which I review and occasionally promote to TODOs or NEXT actions.
I'm also tinkering with agenda views that give longer term perspective for project planning. However, I'm already running into the limitations of agenda views.
Most of it is inspired by Bernt Hansen's (cited by the OP) and Sacha Chua's configs, though they are doing even more sophisticated stuff at times.
Re: Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3
#252,3 years ago commit. What about Orgmode for other editors? I'd love to see Atom or VSCode get one.
To put it in perspective, Carsten Wimmers created org-mode for himself. And...it's a hobby project: He's a full time astronomer who works on org-mode on the train on his way to work. What it takes to get org-mode on VS-code or Atom [or Sublime] is someone who cares about making it happen as much as Wimmers does. And that's roughly 13 years of caring and 13 years is five years longer than Sublime Text has existed and about a decade longer than Atom or VScode.
It's a sort of variation on the Turing Tarpit: it's probably technically possible to implement Org-mode in Eclipse or Vim, but it's not easy. Not easy in both from the sense of software architecture and in the sense of the community. People live in Emacs for Mail and NNTP and a Shell and calendars and calculators and do so because Emacs was designed to be easy to extend and the community did. That community has people who have been married to Emacs for ten, twenty, thirty years. That's the kind of relationship that can sustain a decade+ development effort.
Re: Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3
#26For me the beauty of org-mode is I get to write in a feature rich markup language and then export to almost any format my heathen non-emacs using colleagues desire.
Oh, and tables. Having what is basically a spreadsheet that I can manipulate without ever touching my trackpad is a serious win.
Sadly, I doubt these features will ever be available outside of emacs. Org-mode probably deserves it's own app.
Re: Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does your agenda view differ from the default?
Not the parent poster, but I have custom agendas too. The two I use the most are "Today" and "Weekly review". "Today" has the ordinary day agenda block, but sprinkled with habits tracking, as well as the separate list of NEXT actions, sorted by priority and complexity. The view is structured to answer the "What should I be doing right now?" very quickly. The "Weekly review" is made for a (slightly tweaked) GTD review…
I've been meaning to do an agenda view for weekly reviews for awhile, but my master view works well enough. What I'd really like is an agenda view that approximates a burn down chart and gives me a suggested velocity for next week (or some arbitrary period of time) based on the difference between my effort estimates and actual clocked-in time. A task aging view would also be nice to remind me about tasks on my list that have been idle for awhile so I can update them.
But alas, this is the beauty and curse of org mode. I could do this, but will the time investment really make me that much more productive? Maybe, but maybe not.
Re: Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3
#28Anyone know of a good org mode plugin for vim?
Re: Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3
#29Anyone know of a good org mode plugin for vim?
Re: Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3
#30Is there a way for Sublime to work directly with Github? I maintain some notes files in org mode directly on Github. https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes However, when I want to make big changes, I work locally. Ideally, I'd be warned if I forget to update my local repo when I try to edit.
Seconded, that does sound useful.