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Emacs Org-Mode: for Notes, Project Planning, and Authoring

62 points| mnemonik | 16 years ago |orgmode.org | reply

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[+] chime|16 years ago|reply
Wow. That's similar in vein to the project I've been working on slowly on the side for about a month now: http://bulletxt.com - it currently saves your notes via browser session but I'm working on making it like pastebin and having an account system. It'll be very much like a typical text-editor with the ability to sort tasks via drag-drop, copy-paste, and share task subtrees.

I highly doubt the emacs-type will end up using my app but it feels good to see I'm not the only one who has a need for organizing nested todo lists. I can't for the life of me figure out how everyone can deal with 1-level deep task lists.

[+] 3pt14159|16 years ago|reply
So I love the web app. Super simple (especially with the keyboard shortcuts). Let me know when you have a login & saved lists will ya? Email in my profile.
[+] mstevens|16 years ago|reply
I'm looking for a new todo list tool at the moment. How would it work for a vaguely GTD style?
[+] abentspoon|16 years ago|reply
A few highlights not mentioned on the front page:

* render latex fragments inline (thanks to auctex)

* embed & run code (python, ruby, haskell, R, etc)

* text-mode spreadsheet (including cell functions)

* render ascii-art drawings to png (combine with M-x artist-mode)

* export via latex to pdf or html

[+] zacharypinter|16 years ago|reply
I really enjoy using org-mode for personal notes.

However, there's a few general issues I'd like to see improved upon:

* External Collaboration (how can I get my PM to work with me on org-mode docs?) - Something like ikiwiki that works back and forth between web edits and emacs edits.

* Searching - Ideally, this would be part of the external collaboration piece. Spotlight/rgrep is ok for now, but not great.

* Easier linking/file creation - I'd love for org-mode to incorporate some of ideas/features in VoodooPad/Tomboy for easily creating new docs and linking to them. Could probably hack something together (and I have made a shortcut for file-links that uses ido-completion), but it'd be nice for this to be a central focus.

[+] lqdshadow|16 years ago|reply
It's strange, but a simple text file always served my needs for TODO lists, even including notes and other information related to the TODOs. It is not pretty, but I do not have trouble finding my TODOs amidst the rest of the noise, since I am consistent with my left-side "start of a TODO line" and "start of a subTODO" symbols. Sometimes I think that having a neat, pretty TODO list program would be nice, but I learned that I find my text files much more portable (Notes on iPhone, a txt on Mac, txt in linux, txt on my Windows desktop).
[+] dlsspy|16 years ago|reply
I'm hoping someone does an android app similar to mobile-org real soon.

In the meantime, I ssh from my phone to a box that has an up-to-date copy of my .org files.

[+] gtt|16 years ago|reply
Is there something similar to it for vim?
[+] dwwoelfel|16 years ago|reply
According to a Google Tech Talk by the creator, a few people have switched from vi to emacs to get org-mode. The obvious implication is that there is nothing comparable for vi. However, the talk was in July of 2008, so maybe someone has created something since then.

Here is a link to the talk: http://orgmode.org/GoogleTech.html

[+] rpdillon|16 years ago|reply
In my extensive searches, there is nothing like it anywhere, running on anything. Without exaggeration, org-mode changed the way I organize my life, both at work and at home. It has a blindingly fast development pace, is already very mature, and is much more than just todo, calendar, and outlining.