Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.
Hi Thomas, t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes: Might better be: Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system. Indeed, I just updated the website. Thanks! -- Bastien
Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.
Aloha all, I was just looking at the Org mode web site and thought this edit might contribute to the discussion. This text at the top of Org mode web site: Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system. Might better be: Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system. Happy holidays, Tom Bastien b...@altern.org writes: Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: After a rather fruitful discussion, this thread has gone dead before power-that-be would take note. Who is responsible for making changes on the orgmode website? Until someone volonteers to maintain the website, I am in charge. Can you summarize the change we need to make? If not, I will process this when I have some time. Thanks, -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com
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Org-mode is useful for - Organising projects, maintaining TODO lists and calendars - Creating high quality formatted documents - Keeping notes - Literate programming and Reproducible Research After a rather fruitful discussion, this thread has gone dead before power-that-be would take note. Who is responsible for making changes on the orgmode website? Vikas
Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.
Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: After a rather fruitful discussion, this thread has gone dead before power-that-be would take note. Who is responsible for making changes on the orgmode website? Until someone volonteers to maintain the website, I am in charge. Can you summarize the change we need to make? If not, I will process this when I have some time. Thanks, -- Bastien
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Hi Vikas, Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: And the first headline, before Download and install, be something like the following: * Org mode is useful for ** Organising projects ** Maintaining TODO lists and calendars ** Keeping notes ** Creating high quality formatted documents ** Literate programming Each of the above could then be linked to relevant pages of the manual or worg. Be careful not to be redundant with the list of features here: http://orgmode.org/features.html What I would love is to have some videos instead of the pictures on the features page. Anyone? Also, orgweb.git is publicly accessible here: git://orgmode.org/orgweb.git Patch welcome! -- Bastien
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Jambunathan K kjambunat...@gmail.com writes: ps: I have org-e-freemind.el based on new exporter almost done. It just requires some tweaking before it lands. Great news hidden in this threads! Looking forward to testing this, -- Bastien
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7. Org-mode: don't tell your boss. Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: 1. Org-mode (only) 2. Org-mode: your life in plain text 3. Orgmode is a Free/libre plain-text system for GNU Emacs for organizing project, and maintaining TODO lists, keeping notes, doing literate programming and exporting to many high quality formats. 4. Orgmode is a Free/libre plain-text versatile personal workflow and information tool for GNU Emacs allowing you to keep and organize notes, projects, calendars, do literate programming and reproducible research, and export all your informations and documents to a variety of cam-ready formats. 5. Org-mode: the text editor's best chance at achieving the singularity. 6. Org-mode: It's difficult to say what exactly Emacs' Org-mode will do for you; it's easier to list all things it doesn't do. -- Bastien
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Ivan Andrus darthand...@gmail.com writes: On Dec 7, 2012, at 9:50 AM, David Rogers davidandrewrog...@gmail.com wrote: And how about fantasy-but-would-be-really-useful features? Nearly unlimited. - Fully-functioning, practical Org-mode Gnus Emacs on a touch screen Would Emacs be Emacs without 5 modifier keys? - Optical character recognition within Emacs http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/info/emacspeak_002docr.html Unfortunately, implements everything to do with OCR... except the important part. :) (Try our new OCR application! To make it run, all you have to do is write your own OCR engine!) :P - Text entry by voice (including programming languages) within Emacs http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SpeechToText Cool, I had no idea. - Hand-written text entry directly into Emacs, including filling in web forms Maybe if you speak Chinese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC6l8gDaYzQ And then comes the truly unlimited category of What, are you crazy??? Yes, Emacs users are crazy! - Emacs Movie Editor Maybe you haven't heard of https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gneve/ ? I was originally going to just reply with just this link, but then I did some searching and found the rest. Here again I had no idea. - Emacs Music Recording Studio Not a studio, but maybe a step in the right direction: http://emacswiki.org/emacs/erec.el - Emacs Audio-To-Text Song Lyrics Transcriber This one seems very hard, and in fact I could not find anyone who has tried. This task is not easy for a lot of humans. No surprise that it's hard for machines that don't even understand spoken language. (Code that transcribes music notation from a recording would be even more difficult and even more spectacular - but of course has nothing to do with Emacs, except in the sense that Emacs has something to do with nearly everything.) :) -- David
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brian powell briangpowel...@gmail.com writes: If I had to chose: I vote for #1 or something like: Its your life [organized] in plain text. There have been great suggestions on how to explain what is org-mode. But if we want a catch phrase I'd also vote for this. Orgmode: your life, in plain text. Alan
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brian powell briangpowel...@gmail.com writes: So, again, seriously, this thread is misnamed. What can't you do in Emacs/OrgMode? What can't it be used for?--this should be the thread! I'd really like to know. Every week or two, something comes off my very tiny list, which is just about empty. Seriously seriously? Things you can't do in Emacs that feel as if they *should* be practical, even though they currently are not - Web browsing with ease, and with a full list of currently-expected features (i.e. features to make the general public say Wow! This is much better than Firefox! I'm switching to this for banking, and for everything else as well! - not Umm, why does it look like this?). This single (admittedly huge) feature, probably along with the next one, are IMO the killer features that Emacs does not have. - Ability to continue working in other buffers when one buffer is busy. Combine this feature and the one mentioned above, and I (perhaps along with a lot of other people) move from two primary every-day applications down to one. - WYSIWYG word processing with multiple fonts per page, adjustable margins, and named styles (not saying it should ever be implemented, just saying it's something Emacs can't currently be used for) And how about fantasy-but-would-be-really-useful features? Nearly unlimited. - Fully-functioning, practical Org-mode Gnus Emacs on a touch screen - Optical character recognition within Emacs - Text entry by voice (including programming languages) within Emacs - Hand-written text entry directly into Emacs, including filling in web forms And then comes the truly unlimited category of What, are you crazy??? - Emacs Movie Editor - Emacs Music Recording Studio - Emacs Audio-To-Text Song Lyrics Transcriber - SkypEmacs simultaneous videoconferencing and collaborative text editing, where the participants all type into the same document at once, but also their entire voice conversation is automatically transcribed to plain text, and that transcription saved in the same directory as the document. (i.e. things that prove It isn't all text after all, but some of it is.) -- David
Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.
There have been great suggestions on how to explain what is org-mode. But if we want a catch phrase I'd also vote for this. Orgmode: your life, in plain text. I like the idea of a catch phrase (your life, in plain text) and perhaps a more detailed paragraph belows, potentially with links. –Rasmus -- C is for Cookie
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Rasmus ras...@gmx.us writes: Orgmode: your life, in plain text. I like the idea of a catch phrase (your life, in plain text) and perhaps a more detailed paragraph belows, potentially with links. This phrase is also what first comes to my mind when I try to explain org-mode to others. However, it is clear there are many apt description-blurbs. How about having a database along the lines of what people are saying about org-mode that is initially seeded with what has come up in this thread and then have each refresh of the main org page select and present a new one? I'm sure there are lots of issues and details with this idea so I just toss it out there. -Brett. pgpTinPD3BPee.pgp Description: PGP signature
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I describe Org-mode to people using something like: «Org-mode is a very large box of LEGO bricks. What it does for you? It depends on the bricks you use and how you combine them. It adopts to your requirements.» * Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org wrote: A slightly improved version in my view: * Org mode is useful for ** Organising projects, maintaining TODO lists and calendars ** Creating high quality formatted documents ** Keeping notes ** Literate programming ** Organizing your thoughts (might be redundant to above) ** Managing contacts[1] ** Managing references[2] ** Re-claim you data from the Cloud[3] ** ... 1. http://julien.danjou.info/projects/emacs-packages#org-contacts 2. http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/weblog/2012/03/23/how-to-manage-and-export-bibliographic-notesrefs-in-org-mode/ 3. https://github.com/novoid/Memacs -- Karl Voit
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On Dec 7, 2012, at 9:50 AM, David Rogers davidandrewrog...@gmail.com wrote: brian powell briangpowel...@gmail.com writes: So, again, seriously, this thread is misnamed. What can't you do in Emacs/OrgMode? What can't it be used for?--this should be the thread! I'd really like to know. Every week or two, something comes off my very tiny list, which is just about empty. Seriously seriously? Things you can't do in Emacs that feel as if they *should* be practical, even though they currently are not - Web browsing with ease, and with a full list of currently-expected features (i.e. features to make the general public say Wow! This is much better than Firefox! I'm switching to this for banking, and for everything else as well! - not Umm, why does it look like this?). This single (admittedly huge) feature, probably along with the next one, are IMO the killer features that Emacs does not have. Well, with ease is the problem there, eh? I think that's the problem with most of the rest of these as well. I think the problem is someone thinks, Hey, X would be cool in Emacs and so they start implementing it. But then it's not as cool as they thought and since it _really_ hard to compete with some of the existing software that does X, they give up and the result is that it barely works.I have included some links below as evidence. I have no affiliation with any of them (even as user) so I cannot say whether they work or don't or how well, etc. This list is intended for entertainment purposes only, comes with no warranty expressed or implied… It just amazes me the things that people are willing to try to implement in Emacs. - Ability to continue working in other buffers when one buffer is busy. Combine this feature and the one mentioned above, and I (perhaps along with a lot of other people) move from two primary every-day applications down to one. I agree, this would be very nice. - WYSIWYG word processing with multiple fonts per page, adjustable margins, and named styles (not saying it should ever be implemented, just saying it's something Emacs can't currently be used for) Well, there is enriched-mode. I did use this once briefly. And how about fantasy-but-would-be-really-useful features? Nearly unlimited. - Fully-functioning, practical Org-mode Gnus Emacs on a touch screen Would Emacs be Emacs without 5 modifier keys? - Optical character recognition within Emacs http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/info/emacspeak_002docr.html - Text entry by voice (including programming languages) within Emacs http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SpeechToText - Hand-written text entry directly into Emacs, including filling in web forms Maybe if you speak Chinese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC6l8gDaYzQ And then comes the truly unlimited category of What, are you crazy??? Yes, Emacs users are crazy! - Emacs Movie Editor Maybe you haven't heard of https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gneve/ ? I was originally going to just reply with just this link, but then I did some searching and found the rest. - Emacs Music Recording Studio Not a studio, but maybe a step in the right direction: http://emacswiki.org/emacs/erec.el - Emacs Audio-To-Text Song Lyrics Transcriber This one seems very hard, and in fact I could not find anyone who has tried. - SkypEmacs simultaneous videoconferencing and collaborative text editing, where the participants all type into the same document at once, but also their entire voice conversation is automatically transcribed to plain text, and that transcription saved in the same directory as the document. I think this is probably only chat, but there is https://github.com/buzztaiki/emacs-skype (i.e. things that prove It isn't all text after all, but some of it is.) :-) -Ivan
Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.
So, again, seriously, this thread is misnamed. What can't you do in Emacs/OrgMode? What can't it be used for?--this should be the thread! I'd really like to know. Every week or two, something comes off my very tiny list, which is just about empty. Seriously seriously? Sorry to interrupt, but may I suggest that we turn our heads back to the original focus of this thread, the statement on the orgmode website. Is Bastien watching this thread? Isn't he the one who has to finally change it on the website? Vikas
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Semi-off topic, related to this: brian powell briangpowel...@gmail.com writes: So, again, seriously, this thread is misnamed. What can't you do in Emacs/OrgMode? What can't it be used for?--this should be the thread! I had four main uses for emacs: - Programming in SuperCollider - Email (wanderlust) - Editing of Lilypond source files for music notation - Org Lilypond was the first to go. Lilypond-mode is basically unmaintained, and its code completion is rather poor compared to the dedicated, qt-based editor Frescobaldi. Then SuperCollider 3.6 came out, with a new, dedicated qt-based editor, again improving on the code completion available in sclang-mode. Then I got a tablet and started doing email on it, and lost interest in wanderlust. So now I'm down to using emacs just for org-mode and... that's [expletive] spectacular all by itself :) In the last year, using beamer export for my class presentations opened my eyes to org-mode as a writing tool. My next paper will be written entirely in org-mode, looking forward to that! hjh
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Hi Vikas, Vikas Rawal wrote: The top title space on the orgmode website says: Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system. Orgmode today does a lot more than organising/planning. FYI, AFAIK, that comes from the 24/7 pitches which Nobel prize winners have to make. They must explain in 7 or in 24 words what their work is about. That sentence is the one from Carsten, a few years back, I guess before Babel and many more... Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban
Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.
Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: The top title space on the orgmode website says: Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system. Orgmode today does a lot more than organising/planning. I felt that the above does not adequately reflect what orgmode is useful for. I would think that a new visitor coming to the website would be mislead to think that it is primarily a planning/to do application. For example, writers/publishers who need to produce formatted output would not think that there is something useful here for them. I feel that the above statement does not adequately express that orgmode can do this and a lot more. Any comments/suggestions? Why not just type out what the page should say? That is in the spirit of collaborative way of using things. Your mail sounds more like a complaint, but with a polite tone. Vikas --
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Why not just type out what the page should say? That is in the spirit of collaborative way of using things. Your mail sounds more like a complaint, but with a polite tone. Oops. I was not complaining. I am sorry if my mail gave that impression. I raised an issue. Or, what I thought was an issue. In my first mail, I did not suggest a formulation because I was not sure what I wanted it to be. Also, I thought it was better to first see if others thought there was an issue in what I was saying. In my second mail, I have made a suggestion. I am not sure if that is the best solution. May be somebody can come up with a better solution. But I have suggested what my little mind could come up with. Vikas
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Hi there, I had to describe orgmode to a young colleague of mine... and I came up with something like: Orgmode is a Free/libre plain-text versatile personal workflow and information tool for GNU Emacs allowing you to keep and organize notes, projects, calendars, do literate programming and reproducible research, and export all your informations and documents to a variety of cam-ready formats. the important bit being IMHO personal workflow and information tool (or companion or manager). Just 2 cents. Marco
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Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: One remedy, to this, and a thing I think would be nice in any case, would be if keywords in the presenting sentence would link to (worg?) feature pages. Another possibility would be to make the title just say Org mode. And the first headline, before Download and install, be something like the following: * Org mode is useful for ** Organising projects ** Maintaining TODO lists and calendars ** Keeping notes ** Creating high quality formatted documents ** Literate programming Each of the above could then be linked to relevant pages of the manual or worg. I like this -- it seems like the best crash-landing strategy for new users is to give them a single comforting phrase to look at (I liked the old your life in plain text), and then a concise list of things that org does, like the above.
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Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: One remedy, to this, and a thing I think would be nice in any case, would be if keywords in the presenting sentence would link to (worg?) feature pages. Another possibility would be to make the title just say Org mode. And the first headline, before Download and install, be something like the following: * Org mode is useful for ** Organising projects ** Maintaining TODO lists and calendars ** Keeping notes ** Creating high quality formatted documents ** Literate programming Each of the above could then be linked to relevant pages of the manual or worg. I like this -- it seems like the best crash-landing strategy for new users is to give them a single comforting phrase to look at (I liked the old your life in plain text), and then a concise list of things that org does, like the above. When description becomes boring what is needed is a catchy phrase that stirs up imagination. Free/Libre Digital diary for DIY nuts/ Gen Z geeks/ nerds Freemind can create nice looking Mindmaps. May be the above outline can be converted to a freemind which expands and shrinks magically. ps: I have org-e-freemind.el based on new exporter almost done. It just requires some tweaking before it lands. --
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On 6 December 2012 10:03, Jambunathan K kjambunat...@gmail.com wrote: snip When description becomes boring what is needed is a catchy phrase that stirs up imagination. Free/Libre Digital diary for DIY nuts/ Gen Z geeks/ nerds Tongue only half-in cheek: Org-mode: the text editor's best chance at achieving the singularity Best, Brian vdB
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What about starting with a quote by Dr. Stefan Vollmar: It's difficult to say what exactly Emacs' Org-mode will do for you; it's easier to list all things it doesn't do You know, from MPI talk. Best Axel
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like the following: * Org mode is useful for ** Organising projects ** Maintaining TODO lists and calendars ** Keeping notes ** Creating high quality formatted documents ** Literate programming Each of the above could then be linked to relevant pages of the manual or worg. A slightly improved version in my view: * Org mode is useful for ** Organising projects, maintaining TODO lists and calendars ** Creating high quality formatted documents ** Keeping notes ** Literate programming Would everyone agree that before Download and install, we have something like the above on the front-page? We would still need to decide what to do with the title. Following suggestions have come so far: 1. Org-mode (only) 2. Org-mode: your life in plain text 3. Orgmode is a Free/libre plain-text system for GNU Emacs for organizing project, and maintaining TODO lists, keeping notes, doing literate programming and exporting to many high quality formats. 4. Orgmode is a Free/libre plain-text versatile personal workflow and information tool for GNU Emacs allowing you to keep and organize notes, projects, calendars, do literate programming and reproducible research, and export all your informations and documents to a variety of cam-ready formats. 5. Org-mode: the text editor's best chance at achieving the singularity. 6. Org-mode: It's difficult to say what exactly Emacs' Org-mode will do for you; it's easier to list all things it doesn't do. I would actually vote for the old orgmode title phrase (option 2 above). Vikas
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Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: like the following: * Org mode is useful for ** Organising projects ** Maintaining TODO lists and calendars ** Keeping notes ** Creating high quality formatted documents ** Literate programming Each of the above could then be linked to relevant pages of the manual or worg. A slightly improved version in my view: * Org mode is useful for ** Organising projects, maintaining TODO lists and calendars ** Creating high quality formatted documents ** Keeping notes ** Literate programming Suggested slight change which mentions RR in addition to LP, and doesn't abuse the outline syntax (one of the most common beginner mistakes IMO). Org-mode is useful for - Organising projects, maintaining TODO lists and calendars - Creating high quality formatted documents - Keeping notes - Literate programming and Reproducible Research Would everyone agree that before Download and install, we have something like the above on the front-page? We would still need to decide what to do with the title. Following suggestions have come so far: 1. Org-mode (only) 2. Org-mode: your life in plain text 3. Orgmode is a Free/libre plain-text system for GNU Emacs for organizing project, and maintaining TODO lists, keeping notes, doing literate programming and exporting to many high quality formats. 4. Orgmode is a Free/libre plain-text versatile personal workflow and information tool for GNU Emacs allowing you to keep and organize notes, projects, calendars, do literate programming and reproducible research, and export all your informations and documents to a variety of cam-ready formats. 5. Org-mode: the text editor's best chance at achieving the singularity. 6. Org-mode: It's difficult to say what exactly Emacs' Org-mode will do for you; it's easier to list all things it doesn't do. I would actually vote for the old orgmode title phrase (option 2 above). +1, I also like option 2 best of all those listed above. Vikas -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
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Org-mode is useful for - Organising projects, maintaining TODO lists and calendars - Creating high quality formatted documents - Keeping notes - Literate programming and Reproducible Research Use lower case for RR, since everything else is lower case? Vikas
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Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: Org-mode is useful for - Organising projects, maintaining TODO lists and calendars - Creating high quality formatted documents - Keeping notes - Literate programming and Reproducible Research Use lower case for RR, since everything else is lower case? Vikas Yes, lowercase is better. Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com
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Axel E. Retif axel.re...@mac.com writes: What about starting with a quote by Dr. Stefan Vollmar: It's difficult to say what exactly Emacs' Org-mode will do for you; it's easier to list all things it doesn't do I'm not SO sure that it's difficult. Let me try: Org-mode is a set of processors that work in the background of Emacs to convert your text into action and your chaos into structure. With the help of those processors, almost anything you type while using Org-mode is already a computer program. -- David
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On 12/06/2012 06:18 PM, David Rogers wrote: Axel E. Retif axel.re...@mac.com writes: What about starting with a quote by Dr. Stefan Vollmar: It's difficult to say what exactly Emacs' Org-mode will do for you; it's easier to list all things it doesn't do I'm not SO sure that it's difficult. Let me try: Org-mode is a set of processors that work in the background of Emacs to convert your text into action and your chaos into structure. With the help of those processors, almost anything you type while using Org-mode is already a computer program. I very much like the phrase «... convert your text into action and your chaos into structure». Given Bastien's presentation, I think he would agree with this. But, anyway, I stand by my statement that Dr. Vollmar's phrase is very good to intrigue would-be-users. I know it did it for me ---a couple of months old newbie. And thanks to org-mode now I'm also using exclusively AUCTeX for my work (copy-editor/typesetter). Best Axel
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Org-mode is a set of processors that work in the background of Emacs to convert your text into action and your chaos into structure. With the help of those processors, almost anything you type while using Org-mode is already a computer program. Well said. Vikas
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Suggested slight change which mentions RR in addition to LP, and doesn't abuse the outline syntax (one of the most common beginner mistakes IMO). Org-mode is useful for - Organising projects, maintaining TODO lists and calendars - Creating high quality formatted documents - Keeping notes - Literate programming and Reproducible Research May I also say that, and I perhaps see it this way because I am not a developer myself, it is useful to keep this top blurb simple and accessible to non-geeks. orgmode is incredible. And it is really not all that difficult and inaccessible. It is super-simple to use, and from what I understand, this simplicity was at the core when Carsten created it. You don't need to know any latex or html, and you can produce brilliant documents. Etc... orgmode is really something that can be enormously useful to writers, social scientists, and a lot of other people. Some of our documentation must remain as simple and accessible to non-geeks as, I think, our software is. Vikas
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David Rogers davidandrewrog...@gmail.com writes: Axel E. Retif axel.re...@mac.com writes: What about starting with a quote by Dr. Stefan Vollmar: It's difficult to say what exactly Emacs' Org-mode will do for you; it's easier to list all things it doesn't do I'm not SO sure that it's difficult. Let me try: Org-mode is a set of processors that work in the background of Emacs to convert your text into action and your chaos into structure. With the help of those processors, almost anything you type while using Org-mode is already a computer program. While these things are true, and well-stated, they're not really going to help someone who's just landed on the homepage and has no idea what he/she is looking at. If I didn't already know what org did, these descriptions would kind of beg the question...
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6. Org-mode: It's difficult to say what exactly Emacs' Org-mode will do for you; it's easier to list all things it doesn't do. Wow! Great thread. I was going to ask the question what @isn't@ Emacs OrgMode--and not in a trite way at all; in a serious way. Emacs is a mode-less (concurrent major modes and minor modes galore) and an infinitely extensible software tool. OrgMode is an amazing tool that enables Emacs users the ability to do a huge number of things, very simply and easily. (E)macs (M)akes (A)ll (C)omputing (S)imple. I often think: What are the epistemological limits of Emacs? What can't you do or find out in Emacs? Emacs has the fastest regexp engine (in the NFA and first character descrimination sense--p.197 MRE, Friedl, et. al) for some things. OrgMode's table interfaces with EmacsCalc--an extremely high-quality science and math tool. Seriously, you can do anything in/with Emacs; and, OrgMode works well in most all other major modes in Emacs. Remember the old icon symbol of Emacs--it literally is a picture of kitchen sink--because you can do everything except the kitchen sink in Emacs--and therefore OrgMode. So, again, seriously, this thread is misnamed. What can't you do in Emacs/OrgMode? What can't it be used for?--this should be the thread! I'd really like to know. Every week or two, something comes off my very tiny list, which is just about empty. Of course we all have computing limits of cpu and hard-drive space etc. so those hard limits will always be the bottleneck as to what Emacs and OrgMode can really be used for--buffers can only be so big. Theoretically there are no limits here except computing limits--P vs. NP is unproven--but P(space) is a hard limit. Like with so many other things in life; Emacs OrgMode is what you make of it. If I had to chose: I vote for #1 or something like: Its your life [organized] in plain text.
[O] The statement on what is orgmode.
The top title space on the orgmode website says: Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system. Orgmode today does a lot more than organising/planning. I felt that the above does not adequately reflect what orgmode is useful for. I would think that a new visitor coming to the website would be mislead to think that it is primarily a planning/to do application. For example, writers/publishers who need to produce formatted output would not think that there is something useful here for them. I feel that the above statement does not adequately express that orgmode can do this and a lot more. Any comments/suggestions? Vikas
Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.
Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: I feel that the above statement does not adequately express that orgmode can do this and a lot more. Any comments/suggestions? The text isn't that bad, but you are right. Babel and exports is perhaps underrepresented. This one is slightly different, but perhaps way to complicated. Orgmode is a Free/libre plain-text system for GNU Emacs for organizing project, and maintaining TODO lists, keeping notes, doing literate programming and exporting to many high quality formats. Problems: many of the concepts are perhaps only intutive /after/ you know Org-mode. One remedy, to this, and a thing I think would be nice in any case, would be if keywords in the presenting sentence would link to (worg?) feature pages. For instance, export could link to a page briefly showing the many exporters/features ¹ - LaTeX - odt - plain text - html; blogs - beamer slides; html slides For instance, such a page could show a simple org source file and the exported version. –Rasmus Footnotes: ¹ The org exporter is very impressive by now thanks to Nicolas, Jambunathan, Luis and the rest of the gang. Thanks. -- If you can mix business and politics wonderful things can happen! pgp7vuPN5ACpo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.
One remedy, to this, and a thing I think would be nice in any case, would be if keywords in the presenting sentence would link to (worg?) feature pages. Another possibility would be to make the title just say Org mode. And the first headline, before Download and install, be something like the following: * Org mode is useful for ** Organising projects ** Maintaining TODO lists and calendars ** Keeping notes ** Creating high quality formatted documents ** Literate programming Each of the above could then be linked to relevant pages of the manual or worg. Vikas
