Always heard about org mode but was intimidated by emacs when I could barely manage vi/vim (sorry guys). Installed a plugin for org-mode for Sublime Text today and… shit, why didn’t I try this sooner?

I have thousands of text files with horrible organization, thrown around multiple directories, no common naming scheme, no hierarchy, no unified notation, just ramblings and a barely marginal attempt at organization using === as title markers. I have links and ideas buried deep and I didn’t want to use a third party tool “just for managing text”.

Well, my eyes are open, and thus I’m euphoric, enlightened by its brilliance. I must rewrite all my stuff in org-mode.

  • pspinler@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use org mode extensively, and yeah, gotta admit it’s nice.

    My biggest gripe is the amount of typing it still takes to annotate stuff. I often find it hard to keep up e.g. taking live notes in a class settings.

    For instance, starting a new document and typing:

      #+BEGIN_TITLE
  Class XYZ Notes
  #+END_TITLE

    Then later on I wanna insert a code segment, and, gotta:

      #+BEGIN_SRC javascript
  $var = "ooh, cool code, bro.";
  #+END_SRC

    (yeah, C-c C-, s works, but I gotta remember that exists, and then also ewww generates in lowercase – uppercase that shortcut output!)

    And then I find I want a table, so lots of "|"s

    There’s probably better faster shortcuts for lots of this, but like everything in emacs, it’s finding and learning them. Typically I need some downtime to do that, which doesn’t happen if I’m e.g. trying to take notes quickly.

    Anyway, despite this, I gotta agree org mode is really helpful. Happying org’ing to you!

    – Pat

    • astroturds@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      For the tables you can do ‘M-x org-table-create’ which then asks you for dimensions and makes it for you.

      I think org-capture might help you with the other stuff, you can set up templates and access them by pressing ‘C-c c’ and get it all inserted in whatever org file and under whatever heading you want.