Emacs Org-mode - a system for note-taking and project planning

[zhengyi13]

@sleepersix: TV Raman wrote a little thing called emacspeak, which hooks a speech synth into emacs such that every aspect of the interface can be spoken aloud by the computer. In so far as you can do *anything* you might want to do with a computer inside of emacs... well, he can write code, email, chat, play in the shell, whatever -- and emacs will read it all aloud to him, very, very quickly.

[mjkolu]

08:04 Microsoft Word considered to be [INDISTINCT] according to whoever transcribed the video. :-)

[sleepersix]

I'm curious, how does that guy write code if he is blind?

[Yobotistan]

I literally love org-mode. I do all my work in it.

[flowewritharoma]

Emacs is a electronic machintosh!

[ikdsjOFFICIAL]

right ya, wat great

[lowertz]

Come on! Emacs is useless... There are usable editors out there too

[psykontube]

Oh boy i was about to turn off the video until i noticed that guy was only introducing the other one, i absolutely wouldn't be able to tolerate 40min of listening to that voice.

[Exdozolie]

@psykontube I don't know what is harder to listen to; Indian or German accent^^

[kuapo]

With all the software and tools that are out there for the purpose of organizing yourself (I've tried quite a few over the years), org-mode is the best thing there will ever be. Used it for over a year now.

The flexible editing capabilities of Emacs and plain text are the perfect fundaments for its functionality.

[dralger]

I use the org mode and I think it is very useful. I combines to note task, bugs and other information in a simplicity and flexible way. I use Outlook at my workplace, mainly for e-mail, but I notes and dates too. But the notes and tasks in Outlook are not very useful and it needs a lot of clicks to combine notes and tasks of the same project...

[dralger]

I use the org mode and I think it is very useful. I combines to note task, bugs and other information in a simplicity and flexible way. I use Outlook at my workplace, mainly for e-mail, but I notes and dates too. But the notes and tasks in Outlook are not very useful and it needs a lot of clicks to combine notes and tasks of the same project...

[dralger]

I use the org mode and I think it is very useful. I combines to note task, bugs and other information in a simplicity and flexible way. I use Outlook at my workplace, mainly for e-mail, but I notes and dates too. But the notes and tasks in Outlook are not very useful and it needs a lot of clicks to combine notes and tasks of the same project...

[dralger]

I use the org mode and I think it is very useful. I combines to note task, bugs and other information in a simplicity and flexible way. I use Outlook at my workplace, mainly for e-mail, but I notes and dates too. But the notes and tasks in Outlook are not very useful and it needs a lot of clicks to combine notes and tasks of the same project...

[catalinaguerrero]

M-x spook RET

[StutteringMatt]

Damn that Indian Introducer speaks louldy

[sp277]

Very interesting.

Thank you.

[EIZvideos]

not many people there...

[johnmair]

noob

[awhanp]

who was the person that introduced Carsten ?

[rand314159]

T.V. Raman

[awhanp]

many thanks :)

[danielemc2007]

Amazing video!!

Joint With Russell video, this lecture made me change from planner-el to org-mode!

[hokmenchan]

good

thanks for your work

[yongbin99]

Bravo! Org-mode is a great piece of emacs hackering. It's very easy to learn incrementally - I started using it effectively within the first hour of discovering it, and I will make heavy use of some of the features presented in this video - particularly the integration with calc.

My compliments and thanks to Professor Dominik for his work, and to Google for making this and other TechTalks available to the public.

[LucidTheophany]

OneNote is essentially a programmer's straightjacket. I am impressed by some of the visual flair, but Org-Mode wins hands down for portability

I've used it for 1+ years, and it is essential on emacs because of links and clocking time. I use it as a knowledgebase, a journal, and as a web site management tool. It is simply amazing, and its maintainer, Carsten, is definitely one of my role models in terms of a developer that is in tune with his user community, both present and future needs.

[sukivan27]

Emacs is a great operating system, but it lacks a decent editor

[hyperthreaded]

I think you can start a terminal emulation in Emacs, and then run vi in there...

[hyperthreaded]

That said, you can of course also run another Emacs in said terminal emulation running in Emacs, and the truly self-referentially inclined may try to attach an additional TTY Emacs frame to the Emacs in which the TTY emulation which hosts that additional frame runs. Doing so may tear the fabric of the space-time continuum.

[someman7]

No, thy're called recursive Emacs' in professional literature. Quite a powerful thing actually once you get the hand of it.

[theyerdahl]

And Emacs can emulate vi with Viper mode. So if you think vi keys are a good idea (I do), you can still have the best of both worlds.

[Tia1ko]

Just enter M-x viper-mode and you can stop whining. Problem solved! :)

[eciOkMcOwnage]

Just enter M-x butterfly to be the real roxer!

Seriously, the org table mode kicks ass, very intuitive and nice to edit.

Very good that it is possible to "export" them to latex or html or whatever, this needs to be made more public.

[zms69zms]

3.

Thanks a lot Carsten and the merry gang of org-moders.

[zms69zms]

2.

Taskpaper/Omnifocus/Tiddlywiki­/Thinking Rock/MyLifeOrganized/LifeBalan­ce/etc. are all subset of Org mode in one way or the other. Org mode achieves it without enforcing format, interface or methodology complexity of any kind on you.  It's fluid and it lets you mold it to suit your style. And if you ever reach one of those corner cases where you find it lacking; you participate on the mailing list and convince Carsten and others to add what you need.

[zms69zms]

1.

I have been using Org mode for about an year now. I had tried a dozen or so online/offline/paper GTD apps and organizing systems but never could like anything.  It's the first system that I have stuck with for more than 5 weeks. As a bonus, I am gaining expertise on arguably the best editors known. Org mode can/should be a reason in itself to learn Emacs.

[dmitryb]

Someone needs to introduce this dude to OneNote. :-)

[zms69zms]

Have you even ever tried Org mode or are you just trolling?

[mjclarthur]

GTD should be part of the title for this for those searching for GTD related things