Every year or so, I try using #obsidian for #notetaking and such, but after a day, I always come back to #orgmode . There are just way too many extras you get being in #emacs#evil and org mode.
@kentborg@sergio_101 No elisp required for installing or using it, but then you'll have to live with the defaults :) I haven't configured it much though, some keybindings and some capture templates. I recommend trying it out, especially if you already use #orgmode.
Each time I want to improve my #emacs / #orgmode setup, I'm hitting such a complexity wall that I always start rethinking that choice… Org mode is the best thing that happened to my notes and todos capture, but emacs is the most complex software I've run in my life… And loosing so much time for small things (and often not succeeding) is making it less and less worth it for me… And that makes me sad :/
@bacardi55
+1 to going in from vanilla with regard to customizing. Building on top of Doom or Spacemacs is much trickier, IMO. Systems Crafters has excellent walkthroughs in setting things up from scratch.
But to further acknowledge the feeling, I remember that moment very clearly. Then I hopped around a few PKMs... to end back up at #orgmode with a better understanding of the tool and myself.
Feel free to venture out! I promise orgmode will still be here when you return :-)
@rml I agree.
I am still new to emacs, but use it, love #orgmode curious about #roam and even tried an orgmode-app on my phone with touchscreen - a bit too clumsy to work with.
#Gemini is cool but I think it is too restrictive and it needs a specific format.
IMHO, #markdown ( #CommonMark ) over http/https would be very efficient.
Markdown is really a common format for content and there many tools able to manage.
It's easy to put md files on an existing http server.
I've not found a really easy to use markdown extension for Firefox or Chromium. I don"t know if there are browsers that render mardown natively ??
@ctietze TBH, I'm just thinking out loud what a different #OrgMode experience would look like. My first impressions of MercuryOS was like, "oh wow, #Emacs has got some parts that could do that." Also, I'd observe that so much development effort in Emacs seems to be in accomplishing context-dependent actions. Add to that the UX work by Rougier, it's tantalizing to synthesize these things and think of a far future Emacs that had support for rich UX.
It is written mostly in #orgmode with some #vuejs and compiled with #Vuepress! You can also navigate it in French (default language), English, and #Elefen (Lingua Franca Nova)!
Pity the data is spread across so many companies data centers, you can perform all of those #PKM activities in emacs #OrgMode & link their output together then save the results as plain text on your own drives not in a company cloud
but #emacs isn't for everyone & takes investment in time to learn & configure org-mode to suit & the leverage the other emacs packages like magit where you can version control blog posts to see how an article evolves & use it as a fine grained backup
There's a Reddit thread on diagramming tools that works with #orgmode. I noticed that #ditaa is a drawing tool that still works, so I contributed to the thread:
ditaa still works within org-mode. The nice thing is that artist-mode kind of produces ditaa compatible ASCII drawings.
The (outdated) documentation states that the ditaa jar comes with Emacs, but that's no longer the case. So download it and then setq org-ditaa-jar-path /path/to/ditaa.jar in your config.
I recently worked with SWWS (https://softwareworkers.it/) developing a minimalist CSS theme for their websites.
I think this is the first time I get to work a paid job using libre tools (GNU Guix and its packages) and be able to release the resulting work as a libre cultural work. It feels great 🙂
(defun my/apply-maybe (f probability &rest args)
"Apply function F with a certain PROBABILITY 0-1)."
(if (< (random 100) (* probability 100))
(apply f args)
'my/not-applied))
My use-case is to export a (large) [#orgmode file to PDF only once in ~10 saves with an after-save-hook. So I automatically get a more-or-less up to date PDF without having to wait.
I'm aware of async exports but for some reason it's quite a hassle to get right. apply-maybe provides a good trade-off for the time being.
Hey #emacs and #orgmode users... trying to build a literate configuration for a #yaml file. Is there a way to set a property on a begin_src block that sets the initial indent level for that block?
If you don't know #emacs and are interested in getting stated with #orgmode for #gtd, #pkm and or everything else check out this video that shows the basics of getting started with org-mode using #spacemacs.