One vote here!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 22:47, Jon Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonebird@gmail.com">jonebird@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Looking for people's interest in a topic. I've spent probably 20+<br>
hours over the holidays reading<br>
and learning about emacs's org-mode[1] and developing a strategy to<br>
finally and completely organize my<br>
work. It's all still quite fresh in the mind and after spending this<br>
much effort into learning and<br>
planning my org files, I feel it would be a waste not to offer to<br>
share with others.<br>
<br>
Yes, it is squarely an emacs topic and wouldn't directly apply to our<br>
vi/vim folks of the<br>
crowd. That said, however, I've seen people try out emacs solely for<br>
the purpose of checking out<br>
org-mode. I have been using it for two years straight with only<br>
scraping the surface of what it is<br>
capable of until watching a presentation given by the current org-mode<br>
maintainer[2]. After watching<br>
that video and having extra time on the holidays, I devoted to<br>
completely read through the manual<br>
while developing my own personalized organization of my work.<br>
<br>
What I am proposing to present is primarily two-fold: 1. Give an<br>
adequate overview of org-mode and<br>
what it is capable of and 2. Provide a suggested methodology in<br>
organizing your own work using<br>
org-mode.<br>
<br>
Mini sales pitch on org-mode:<br>
1. It's just text. Everything is just text but org-mode understand the<br>
structure and provides<br>
sophisticated movement, re-arranging, reporting, tracking, and so on.<br>
2. Great exporting features from html, LaTeX, DocBook, iCalendar,<br>
Freemind, others.<br>
I use this when sharing my meeting/project notes with others at work.<br>
3. Custom Views of your work (called Agendas) for getting a snapshot<br>
on what needs attention/work.<br>
4. Pretty nifty way to create and manage ascii tables. (Have to show<br>
you to understand)<br>
5. Nice way to create links to other portions of your org files, other<br>
files, hyperlinks, etc.<br>
Doesn't sound cool but it quite handy if your files grow to 1000+<br>
lines or more (like mine).<br>
6. State tracking of items. States, Tags, Priorities are the main ways<br>
for categorizing work.<br>
7. Good support for datetime recognition. Set deadlines and indicate<br>
when you plan to work on<br>
something or when was it recorded. Can also track how much time was<br>
spent working on a particular<br>
item.<br>
8. Quick capture of new tasks. Perhaps my favorite feature.<br>
Menu driven keystroke prompts me with a custom template to capture<br>
that thought that just came to<br>
you that you need to capture and work on later but do not want to<br>
distract you from what you're<br>
working on currently.<br>
<br>
I'm going to stop there. It can honestly be daunting for the newcomer<br>
but you don't have to take<br>
advantage of each feature day 1 of using org-mode. Again, what I'm<br>
proposing is a quick overview to<br>
understand what is capable and perhaps suggest a way for you to<br>
organize that work you'd like to get<br>
done in 2012.<br>
<br>
So, anybody interested in such a presentation?<br>
<br>
-- Jon Miller<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://orgmode.org/" target="_blank">http://orgmode.org/</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://vimeo.com/30721952" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/30721952</a><br>
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