I really like emacs, and I want to use it. I really loved the way I could mix my thoughts and tasks in org and have an agenda view that shows me a todo list. However, I spend so much time without a computer that it doesn’t make sense for me to use org mode. I’ve tried a mobile app for org mode but it didn’t work as well for me as a task tracker that has a mobile app. How are others in this situation working with org?
Get things done with Emacs
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Re: Get things done with Emacs
#32I'm tired just reading the article. That process sounds exhausting, after working through it, I think I'd want a nap rather than to go do some actual worthwhile work.
By contrast, the author was able to both read and write the post without such exhaustion, perhaps due to the fact that he wasn't wasting mental energy on recurring tasks.
Re: Get things done with Emacs
#33I really like emacs, and I want to use it. I really loved the way I could mix my thoughts and tasks in org and have an agenda view that shows me a todo list. However, I spend so much time without a computer that it doesn’t make sense for me to use org mode. I’ve tried a mobile app for org mode but it didn’t work as well for me as a task tracker that has a mobile app. How are others in this situation working with org?
Which app did you try? I use Orgzly http://www.orgzly.com/ for getting the agenda on my phone and for small edits. And whenever I want the full experience I run a real emacs on my phone in Termux.
For syncing I use Syncthing.
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#34Richard stallman himself got repetitive strain injury from emacs. So many people have. They tell you to remap the key to caps lock they tell you to use your palm instead of your finger they tell you to get a weird keyboard but at the end of the day it was just poorly designed. Vim is only slightly slower but so much easier on my hands. Yes, I could get emacs evil or spacemacs or whatever but bolting on modality to an…
>it was just poorly designed
This is actually true, but not an issue anymore. Control was near the space bar in the Symbolics keyboard, now it's in a much more comfortable position where it can and should be pressed with the left hand's palm, which is important even if you don't use Emacs. Vi uses control too.
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#35Taking a quick peak at managing email in emacs I think I'll keep two separate programs. I really like the agenda view, I'll need to reconsider using Outlook tasks (I'm using a split system between Outlook, emacs, and my corporate bug tracker). The cleaner history tracking +easy ability to add notes/reorganize makes this such a clear progress update. Might try using this as my future workplan update. The breakouts by…
I have a hard time imagining being able to use Emacs as effortlessly with Microsoft Exchange emails as I can with Outlook. I use org-mode todos, and Outlook tasks, and it might be nice to integrate, but I'm not going to bother trying, tbh. Outlook notes are terrible, imo. Switched to using org-mode with org-crypt, and its worked pretty well, except I have an entry that won't decrypt anymore, and I'm not sure what has…
That's pretty bad if you put your life into notes or docs or whatever you're encrypting and then it just won't decrypt anymore. Do you think the file just got corrupted? Or is it actually the plug-in that's failing?
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#36I really like emacs, and I want to use it. I really loved the way I could mix my thoughts and tasks in org and have an agenda view that shows me a todo list. However, I spend so much time without a computer that it doesn’t make sense for me to use org mode. I’ve tried a mobile app for org mode but it didn’t work as well for me as a task tracker that has a mobile app. How are others in this situation working with org?
I have found that a few well-placed shortcuts in my vim configuration file makes it very easy to work with my notes using markdown. I have shortcuts for viewing links, taking screenshots[1][2] and saving them to my disc and linking to them in my markdown, and viewing mark down in a viewer that can export to PDF. On mobile, I use the excellent Epsilon Notes with Folder Sync Pro. The two work together seamlessly.
1: https://git.sr.ht/~djha-skin/dotfiles/tree/main/item/nvim/in...
2: https://git.sr.ht/~djha-skin/dotfiles/tree/main/item/screen2...
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#37How do you save screenshots?
On KDE/Debian/Linux I use the Spectacle Screenshot Capture Utility. The next version Emacs 29.0 may get screenshot builtin and a better way to keep the configuration file manageable. See https://planet.emacslife.com
from Emacs 27.1, it's possible to do Emacs internal screenshots with a little config, see: https://paste.debian.net/1255637/ (based on from https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/idz35e/emacs_27_can_... )
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#38I have a much more chaotic structure and do not use time tracking / effort estimate but as a suggestion for going beyond: Emacs for me works very well as a file manager, not much in the sense of using dired but in the sense of org-attach anything, sometimes small trees to be seen/treated via dired [1], accessing them via org-roam search&narrow UI (i.e. org-roam-node-find).
I've hesitated a lot at first, especially since migrating a decade old curated home taxonomy with symlinks, TMSU etc in the middle, it's not so easy nor much automate but in the end it pay back very well since not only add much more flexibility and much more level of indirection than symlinking/TMUS fuse fs queries but also offer the ability to search & filter for much more textual information easily.
Doing so allow integrating essentially anything else.
[1] org-id-get-create then renaming (moving) or copy etc a small set of files and directories to be linked in org-mode notes
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#39Richard stallman himself got repetitive strain injury from emacs. So many people have. They tell you to remap the key to caps lock they tell you to use your palm instead of your finger they tell you to get a weird keyboard but at the end of the day it was just poorly designed. Vim is only slightly slower but so much easier on my hands. Yes, I could get emacs evil or spacemacs or whatever but bolting on modality to an…
> Vim is only slightly slower Both vim and neovim (be it in TUI or GUI form) are faster than Emacs. https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/#summary
Your URL is about how fast the software is at responding to the user's keystrokes. In contrast, the person you are replying to is writing about the effect of key binding on how quickly a user can get common tasks done.
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#40How do you save screenshots?
org-download is really good for this.