Renato <renato.pontef...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > I know, ther's a lot of doc around there. But: can someone show me > "the best" road map" to start using (and learning) org-mode? >
Org is a swiss army knife: if you open up all the blades and try to use them at once, you are going to hurt yourself. Start with one or two things that are interesting to you and ignore everything else: e.g. agenda and TODO lists for organizing your life; writing up notes for latex or html export. I mention these two because they account for about 95% of my personal usage, but you will have to adjust to taste. Resist the temptation to learn everything at once. Once you've used org for a while for the things that matter to *you*, extensions and further uses will come naturally. For example, learning about tables comes naturally in the note-taking process; then you learn about the spreadsheet and doing data analysis in org; then you go on to babel and "reproducible" research. That might lead to citations (a field of active research on the list currently). Then you might want to publish your notes so others can read them; or start a blog... Or you decide to organize your life even more and start clocking all your activities; track your habits; go on to quantify your life... All of these things and more are possible with org, but just because they are possible does not mean that you have to do them all (and certainly not all at once) in order to use org productively. Just remember: one blade at a time. > I've past the few days, learning emacs, and now, I think I'm able to > start using org-mode. > > TIA > > Renato > > -- Nick
