So excited that I was able to write a blog post in #orgmode#emacs and publish it to my #classicpress blog from within orgmode! The new post ain't much to look at, and there's no content to speak of. Just a proof of concept. And it proofed!
So, I think I start to understand why I always fail to use Org-mode, or any other software made for the same goal.
Until now, I wanted to use it to track and plan all my tasks. Including tasks I don't want to do but have to. So, every time I used it, it remind me of all the boring stuff I don't want to do. It result as my brain prefer to avoid using it and be focus on something else.
When I was using Org-mode, I finished by being freeze: I don't do the tasks I don't want to, and because of that, I was feeling that I didn't deserve to do what I wanted to. In the end, I was doing nothing because of that.
And I also tried to use Org-mode during period of time where I have a lot of work to do, where mistake was not possible for me. In these times, I can't experiment new things. I need to rely on thing that I have already used and have proven it worked for me, even if it's less efficient than Org-mode.
So, what to do now ?
I start to use Org-mode to track only, no planing. I mark only the tasks I want to do. Like that, I will be very happy to use it.
When I took the habit to use Org-mode, I will start to time my tasks. It will help me with my inability to represent time in my head.
Then I will start to introduce task I don't want to. Maybe with a counter. If I have more than 3 tasks per week, I have the right to push the rest of them to next week.
And finally, I will maybe introduce planing.
But for each step, I will wait to take some habits.
It always annoys me that both #OrgMode and #Pandoc do not appear to have a 'clean'/plain flag for generating output.
I want 'plain' LaTeX and HTML with no additions or custom elements...no \tightlist in list environments, nor <div> around sections. Just plain unadulterated markup, that is all...
i really like #flatnotes, but it's a little bit too minimalistic ... thinking about switching to another #note taking solution ... but there are so many options. #obsidian , #logseq , #joplin ?
main requirements are that its needs to be quick and easy to use; syncing the notes between desktop and android phone (not through external cloud, needs to be #selfhosted) ... preferrably 100% #foss - so i guess obsidian is already out?
Is there a way, even using a different structure (but possibly keeping those items grouped), to have an unique numbering for all those items in the page?
For the entire time I've been using #Emacs, I never used (or wanted) any kind of spell-checking. That is changing now that I'm using it a lot more to write notes/documentation with #OrgMode / #OrgRoam.
Ideally I want to only do spell-checking on comments, when editing code, and similar configurability for Org documents.
What is the recommended method for something like that in 2024 (on macOS, if that makes any difference)?
I'm writing a longer (as it seems) article on the lock-in effect of solutions like #Obsidian that are using open formats like #Markdown for storage. The file format is not the only thing that might lock you in.
I did already start with a list of arguments but also want to collect your ideas so that I don't forget a good argument.
Please, no emotions, just facts and objective arguments.
Reply here in this thread and I'll collect ideas from it. 🙇
Looking forward to setting up my used #thinkpad with #linuxmint next week. Looking for recos for easy syncing, mainly for my #emacs and #orgmode stuff. What have you used that you could recommend? I do have GDrive working well on my Windows machines, so could go that route,, though not familiar with how to do that on linux. Thanks!
@TheSecondVariation@publicvoit If you're asking me, I'm trying to figure out how to sync my stuff across multiple devices: Windows, LinuxMint, iPhone, iPad..... so that I can do #emacs and #orgmode on all of them.
Wow. I guess I was wrong when I said that we have well and truly enough #Obsidian how-to tutorials out there. Either that or this person doesn’t have the faintest idea how to google properly.
might like to look into either of those wrt to "building a second brain". On the actual software side, the darlings of note-taking seem to be split into 2 1/2 camps. Either #obsidian (page-based knowledge - my personal preference), #logseq (block-based knowledge) or #orgmode, which I'm assigning the 1/2 to as I don't know much about it, not as many people seem into it and (to me) it's complicated and non-intuitive to start off with. Obsidian has a tree structure on the left, works ...2/4
@dhry The reason why some of us use #orgmode for #pkm stuff is that it can be configured to do whatever we want and work exactly the way we want.
Especially if you use it via #emacs, in which case either someone has already made a package that does exactly what you want or it can be written as elisp code by yourself.
Out of the box default experience may not be very shiny, but under the hood it's probably the most powerful tool there is.
I'm a noob to #orgmode and loving it. Just wondering how many other "platforms" accept or translate .org files? Or will I usually have to change formats if using a file elsewhere? #emacs
They're working on a DB version in parallel that will provide better scalability, performance and realtime #collaboration (#RTC). They'll charge for RTC.
Unfortunately, this seems to be the end for #orgdown markup as they are implementing #Markdown only now and a conversion feature later on. 😞
Therefore, logseq is not an option for me any more and I'll need to think about a migration strategy for my wife.
I have an org file for a long-running project. It's getting hard to manage because there are lots of different tasks, events, etc.
I think I want to create an "archive version" of that file, which would have the same structure but store items, say, with a timestamp older than 2 months. That would require two basic steps:
extracting a subtree from the original file;
merging the extracted subtree into the archived version.
I could implement that, but I wonder if there is any existing way for that? Or some other approach that would address the same issue?
Scratching my head at an Emacs issue: Elfeed-org doesn’t seem to load my feeds. I’m not sure why, everything looks OK. I have my feeds.org and I have the path defined in rmh-elfeed-org-files and it does show the value it’s supposed to have.
Almost thought I had a good way to move #org documents into #confluance from converting them into #html. They used to have a built in HTML renderer but I suppose they couldn't fix it on the cloud and disabled it. Too bad all the html rendering apps from the marketplace are priced WAY too high for what they offer. Guess I'll have to stick with exporting to #markdown for now.
#kagi.el 0.5 was released yesterday and is now available on MELPA Stable. Most of the highlights have already been mentioned on my timeline:
• Define your own prompts with define-kagi-fastgpt-prompt' • Embed prompts and responses inside #orgmode • A no-cache' parameter for some summarizer commands (so your text flows through Kagi's infrastructure without retention)
Update on moving .md file into .org on #emacs for #orgmode. Several suggested pandoc, but for some reason I couldn't get that going. Googled how to install, etc., but no joy. So I opened my big old .md file in a buffer, selected All, copied it, and pasted into my big everything in one file org file in the section where I wanted it.
That part worked, but then had to clean up headings. Did it all manually and took about 30 minutes. Oh well. At least now I've got my daily note in orgmode.