On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote: > Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> today I looked at our tutorial page at >> >> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/index.html >> >> and came away with the feeling that that this page has become >> somewhat useless for people who are really new to Org. I think >> the page should start with a section of true recommendations >> for beginners, a path we tell every new users to take in order to >> learn about Org mode. >> >> Can we have a discussion here on how this path should look like? >> When you came to Org-mode as a newby, what were the three resources >> that really made an impression on by being accessible and >> providing feel and promise for digging deeper? >> >> - Carsten > > My feeling is, the tutorial structure might look like this: > > Start with the basics: outlining and structure editing, plus > introductions to links and properties. > > Then four other tutorials, presented in no particular order: > > 1. TODOs/agendas/task management (plus clocking) > 2. Exporting > 3. Babel > 4. Tables/spreadsheets
I would only add that "exporting" is closely linked to "writing in org" whcih is what I mostly do. This includes topics like footnotes, which I haven't really figured out yet after 3 years of using org (admittedly I haven't really tried either). It might also be nice if these tutorials included some sample setup code to get intermediate-to-advanced features working even before one fully understands them. Very busy the net 2 weeks but afte that I'd like to try to give back a little bit to the org community, so I could take a crack at some of these areas (not 3 & 4 though!). Matt > > Those four areas seem pretty distinct and independent to me (except > there's special cross-over between exporting and babel blocks). Any > given prospective org user will probably immediately gravitate to one or > more areas, leaving the others for later. Personally, I immediately > jumped into task management, then went to exporting, and I've only ever > dabbled in babel and spreadsheets. I think it would be good to keep > these areas fairly self-contained. > > 2 cents, > Eric > >