Getting Started With Org Mode

Org-mode0 is the best merge I've found between plain text and more powerful workflow/scheduling features. I synchronize to android using Orgzly1. If I wasn't on Emacs as my main editor, I would just use plain text. There have been efforts to get Org-mode working in other editors, but I don't know how good they are. The benefits of plain text are more important to me than the benefits of the special features. I've used a lot of todo apps, and some of them are very good for specific tasks, but most aren't adaptable enough for my needs. Eventually I gave up and went to plain text, and was happy. Org-mode is just a better version of plain text. 0: link to this video 1: link

ORG-MODE ORG-MODE ORG-MODE Jeff, everything you do could be done with org-mode by using a key combination. it would also add a calender with an agenda and schedule and and and and the main thing: it's a text file just like what you are using. this is a nice how to (no relation to me) link to this video

Because of the steep learning curve and troubleshooting associated with it, I've become more hesitant in recommending Emacs. However for the curious, the video Getting Started in Org Mode 1 which is a great demonstration on Emacs and Org Mode's potential as an organizational tool. Anyone still curious and would like to smooth out the learning curve, I'd recommend using an emacs starter kit such as Doom Emacs 2 which has a lot of OOB functionality without having to immediately learn Elisp. 1 link to this video 2 link

Videos that show off org-mode I was introduced to org-mode about 4 years ago with this video: link to this video It does a great job, I think, of showing off functionality, but it gave me very little insight into how to use it. I went down the rabbit hole. I found Sacha Chua's blog - https://sachachua.com/blog/emacs/ I found Bert Hansen's page - http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html I found Dave O'Toole's tutorial - https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/orgtutorial_dto.html Eventually (months later) I started to RTFM - https://orgmode.org/ I started using it and went through a series of false starts - I would start using it heavily, then stop using it, forget all the keybindings, forget some of…

A few other things to mention: * You can even *run* the code blocks within your documentation file and output the results automatically * You can have clickable links to your other files * You can export your notes to HTML (optionally made even fancier by Twitter Bootstrap) if you ever need to share your notes with people * It's all in plaintext, so it's future-proof and easy to diff for version-control tools * Org has a ton of other features you might find useful for college, including to-do list tracking/scheduling to keep track of tests/due dates, built-in spreadsheet functionality, and more. It's also worth noting that you don't have to use any more features than you want, and yo…

> why literate programming isn't more popular is beyond me I saw this topic brought up in a video I was watching yesterday link to this video There are 2 reasons: 1. Programmers and code review tools are not very good at making sure comments and documentation are updated when code is. 2. People see literate programming as primarily for documentation-focused or teaching purposes. The statistics in the article we're commenting on suggest that more software systems should be documentation/teaching focused, since the "learning the system" phase is where most of the time goes.