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Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3

178 points by emartinelli 11y ago

melling 11y ago
Is there a way for Sublime to work directly with Github? I maintain some notes files in org mode directly on Github. https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes However, when I want to make big changes, I work locally. Ideally, I'd be warned if I forget to update my local repo when I try to edit.
- jacalata 11y ago
  You want a warning if the file has changed in the repository since you last edited it locally, is that right? Interesting idea, I can see it coming in handy myself.
- karlgrz 11y ago
  Seconded, that does sound useful.
ronjouch 11y ago
For another take on the TODO list in Sublime, check PlainTasks. It may not have the ambition of a "full orgmode" if compared to emacs's orgmode, but has nice default settings and keybindings. It's on Package Control and at https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks
- desireco42 11y ago
  I really like PlainTasks
- cseelus 11y ago
  Its also available for VIM, Atom and other editors. https://github.com/elentok/plaintasks.vim https://github.com/elentok/plaintasks.vim https://atom.io/packages/tasks https://atom.io/packages/tasks
- egeozcan 11y ago
  PlainTasks is simple enough and gets the job done. I also recommend it from experience.
mikerichards 11y ago
2,3 years ago commit. What about Orgmode for other editors? I'd love to see Atom or VSCode get one.
- tangue 11y ago
  Someone started an org clone on Atom https://atom.io/packages/org https://atom.io/packages/org but he erases his github repo ...
- brudgers 11y ago
  To put it in perspective, Carsten Wimmers created org-mode for himself. And...it's a hobby project: He's a full time astronomer who works on org-mode on the train on his way to work. What it takes to get org-mode on VS-code or Atom [or Sublime] is someone who cares about making it happen as much as Wimmers does. And that's roughly 13 years of caring and 13 years is five years longer than Sublime Text has existed and about a decade longer than Atom or VScode. It's a sort of variation on the Turing Tarpit: it's probably technically possible to implement Org-mode in Eclipse or Vim, but it's not easy. Not easy in both from the sense of software architecture and in the sense of the community. People live in Emacs for Mail and NNTP and a Shell and calendars and calculators and do so because Emacs was designed to be easy to extend and the community did. That community has people who have been married to Emacs for ten, twenty, thirty years. That's the kind of relationship that can sustain a decade+ development effort.
scrumper 11y ago
Well I'm trying to use sublime for more stuff; my dream is that it turns into a Python-based Emacs, so this is interesting. It's not clear to me how to actually use this port of org-mode though. There don't seem to be any new commands (bar 'set syntax'); how do I create tasks, indent, fold, mark done etc?
jefurii 11y ago
Offtopic, but everytime I want to try Sublime I check to see if it can edit files on remote systems via SSH and it can't. Well you can if you install some package on the remote systems but that's clunky and doesn't count. I'll continue using Emacs.
- anurags 11y ago
  Have you looked at Sublime FTP? https://wbond.net/sublime_packages/sftp https://wbond.net/sublime_packages/sftp
  - fatlasp 11y ago
    Just chiming in with anecdotal evidence that I've used this package to edit remote files for years. It might just be some sort of scp mechanism though; can't remember as I haven't used it for quite some time (for unrelated reasons.)
- JonathonW 11y ago
  If you're on a *nix, I'm rather fond of sshfs for this purpose: it's a FUSE filesystem that lets you mount a remote folder over SSH, and from there you can work with files using whatever local editor or tools you want to. It's available through apt-get in Ubuntu and Homebrew on OSX (and probably other package managers, too), and should work anywhere that FUSE does. Doesn't require any special configuration on the server-side except to have SSH enabled (and not be doing anything weird that blocks SFTP, I guess).
  - whatnotests 11y ago
    sshfs is the shit. And using a solid piece of work like sshfs vs having some one-off thing for sublime is much preferred.
  - laumars 11y ago
    I second the sshfs recommendation. Most of my remote development is using a combination of tmux (as an IDE for remote CLI tools) and sshfs (for GUI IDEs).
pumblechook 11y ago
Kudos to the author for trying to bring org mode to a wider audience. It was definitely the gateway drug to Emacs for me, and now that I've been using org for awhile I honestly can't see myself ever switching to another personal task manager/productivity tool. I always recommend it to others, but alas, the Emacs barrier is too big for most to overcome. I do have one suggestion: don't try to emulate the feature set of Emacs org mode exactly. While I love org mode, the setup time and effort was many orders of magnitude greater than any other tool I've used before, and I can't say it enabled me to be many orders of magnitude more productive. I would love to have an org mode with sensible defaults (such as indented bullets, project-based agenda view, etc...) with a narrow feature set. For me, the killer features are: * Mixed notes and TODOs. It was a revelation to be able to just type a TODO into any notes and know that this will magically appear on my master TODO list. But for this to be useful, you really need... * The agenda view. For those not familiar, this is essentially a consolidated list of todos across all your org files. But I never found the default agenda view that useful, so I again spent lots of time writing one myself. Now I use it many times a day. * Timers. The way org mode does timers is miles better than any other time tracking software I've ever used. * Flexible 'projects'. In org mode I have a lot of flexibility in how I treat projects (for me a project is simply a TODO with 1 or more nested TODO). With my agenda view I can quickly see all my projects with two keystrokes. * Flexible TODO recurrence. Most task managers only let you repeat a TODO every so often, but org has a powerful syntax for defining whatever recurrence pattern you want (i.e. do this task every week on Friday and have it done within 3 days) * TODOs dates as scheduled or deadlines. It is always surprising to me how other task managers don't recognize this difference. If you schedule yourself to do something on a certain date, it is very different than saying 'you have to get this done by this date'. * TODO workflows. Most task managers have tepid support for a TODO as a workflow with potential alternate and blocking states (such as waiting on someone before you can do the TODO), but with org mode you can precisely define TODO workflows and do all sorts of cool stuff with them. * Habits. The way org does habits is simply brilliant. Keep up the good work!
- mjb394 11y ago
  How does your agenda view differ from the default?
Semiapies 11y ago
I always wonder what developers feel when some project they haven't touched in months or years gets leapt on by an eager Hacker News.
MarcScott 11y ago
For me the beauty of org-mode is I get to write in a feature rich markup language and then export to almost any format my heathen non-emacs using colleagues desire. Oh, and tables. Having what is basically a spreadsheet that I can manipulate without ever touching my trackpad is a serious win. Sadly, I doubt these features will ever be available outside of emacs. Org-mode probably deserves it's own app.
machinshin_ 11y ago
Anyone know of a good org mode plugin for vim?
- bokchoi 11y ago
  https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode

178 points by emartinelli 11y ago

Is there a way for Sublime to work directly with Github? I maintain some notes files in org mode directly on Github. https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes However, when I want to make big changes, I work locally. Ideally, I'd be warned if I forget to update my local repo when I try to edit.

jacalata 11y ago
You want a warning if the file has changed in the repository since you last edited it locally, is that right? Interesting idea, I can see it coming in handy myself.
karlgrz 11y ago
Seconded, that does sound useful.

ronjouch 11y ago

For another take on the TODO list in Sublime, check PlainTasks. It may not have the ambition of a "full orgmode" if compared to emacs's orgmode, but has nice default settings and keybindings. It's on Package Control and at https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks

desireco42 11y ago
I really like PlainTasks
cseelus 11y ago
Its also available for VIM, Atom and other editors. https://github.com/elentok/plaintasks.vim https://github.com/elentok/plaintasks.vim https://atom.io/packages/tasks https://atom.io/packages/tasks
egeozcan 11y ago
PlainTasks is simple enough and gets the job done. I also recommend it from experience.

mikerichards 11y ago

2,3 years ago commit. What about Orgmode for other editors? I'd love to see Atom or VSCode get one.

tangue 11y ago
Someone started an org clone on Atom https://atom.io/packages/org https://atom.io/packages/org but he erases his github repo ...
brudgers 11y ago
To put it in perspective, Carsten Wimmers created org-mode for himself. And...it's a hobby project: He's a full time astronomer who works on org-mode on the train on his way to work. What it takes to get org-mode on VS-code or Atom [or Sublime] is someone who cares about making it happen as much as Wimmers does. And that's roughly 13 years of caring and 13 years is five years longer than Sublime Text has existed and about a decade longer than Atom or VScode. It's a sort of variation on the Turing Tarpit: it's probably technically possible to implement Org-mode in Eclipse or Vim, but it's not easy. Not easy in both from the sense of software architecture and in the sense of the community. People live in Emacs for Mail and NNTP and a Shell and calendars and calculators and do so because Emacs was designed to be easy to extend and the community did. That community has people who have been married to Emacs for ten, twenty, thirty years. That's the kind of relationship that can sustain a decade+ development effort.

scrumper 11y ago

Well I'm trying to use sublime for more stuff; my dream is that it turns into a Python-based Emacs, so this is interesting. It's not clear to me how to actually use this port of org-mode though. There don't seem to be any new commands (bar 'set syntax'); how do I create tasks, indent, fold, mark done etc?

jefurii 11y ago

Offtopic, but everytime I want to try Sublime I check to see if it can edit files on remote systems via SSH and it can't. Well you can if you install some package on the remote systems but that's clunky and doesn't count. I'll continue using Emacs.

anurags 11y ago
Have you looked at Sublime FTP? https://wbond.net/sublime_packages/sftp https://wbond.net/sublime_packages/sftp
- fatlasp 11y ago
  Just chiming in with anecdotal evidence that I've used this package to edit remote files for years. It might just be some sort of scp mechanism though; can't remember as I haven't used it for quite some time (for unrelated reasons.)
JonathonW 11y ago
If you're on a *nix, I'm rather fond of sshfs for this purpose: it's a FUSE filesystem that lets you mount a remote folder over SSH, and from there you can work with files using whatever local editor or tools you want to. It's available through apt-get in Ubuntu and Homebrew on OSX (and probably other package managers, too), and should work anywhere that FUSE does. Doesn't require any special configuration on the server-side except to have SSH enabled (and not be doing anything weird that blocks SFTP, I guess).
- whatnotests 11y ago
  sshfs is the shit. And using a solid piece of work like sshfs vs having some one-off thing for sublime is much preferred.
- laumars 11y ago
  I second the sshfs recommendation. Most of my remote development is using a combination of tmux (as an IDE for remote CLI tools) and sshfs (for GUI IDEs).

pumblechook 11y ago

Kudos to the author for trying to bring org mode to a wider audience. It was definitely the gateway drug to Emacs for me, and now that I've been using org for awhile I honestly can't see myself ever switching to another personal task manager/productivity tool. I always recommend it to others, but alas, the Emacs barrier is too big for most to overcome. I do have one suggestion: don't try to emulate the feature set of Emacs org mode exactly. While I love org mode, the setup time and effort was many orders of magnitude greater than any other tool I've used before, and I can't say it enabled me to be many orders of magnitude more productive. I would love to have an org mode with sensible defaults (such as indented bullets, project-based agenda view, etc...) with a narrow feature set. For me, the killer features are: * Mixed notes and TODOs. It was a revelation to be able to just type a TODO into any notes and know that this will magically appear on my master TODO list. But for this to be useful, you really need... * The agenda view. For those not familiar, this is essentially a consolidated list of todos across all your org files. But I never found the default agenda view that useful, so I again spent lots of time writing one myself. Now I use it many times a day. * Timers. The way org mode does timers is miles better than any other time tracking software I've ever used. * Flexible 'projects'. In org mode I have a lot of flexibility in how I treat projects (for me a project is simply a TODO with 1 or more nested TODO). With my agenda view I can quickly see all my projects with two keystrokes. * Flexible TODO recurrence. Most task managers only let you repeat a TODO every so often, but org has a powerful syntax for defining whatever recurrence pattern you want (i.e. do this task every week on Friday and have it done within 3 days) * TODOs dates as scheduled or deadlines. It is always surprising to me how other task managers don't recognize this difference. If you schedule yourself to do something on a certain date, it is very different than saying 'you have to get this done by this date'. * TODO workflows. Most task managers have tepid support for a TODO as a workflow with potential alternate and blocking states (such as waiting on someone before you can do the TODO), but with org mode you can precisely define TODO workflows and do all sorts of cool stuff with them. * Habits. The way org does habits is simply brilliant. Keep up the good work!

mjb394 11y ago
How does your agenda view differ from the default?

Semiapies 11y ago

I always wonder what developers feel when some project they haven't touched in months or years gets leapt on by an eager Hacker News.

MarcScott 11y ago

For me the beauty of org-mode is I get to write in a feature rich markup language and then export to almost any format my heathen non-emacs using colleagues desire. Oh, and tables. Having what is basically a spreadsheet that I can manipulate without ever touching my trackpad is a serious win. Sadly, I doubt these features will ever be available outside of emacs. Org-mode probably deserves it's own app.

machinshin_ 11y ago

Anyone know of a good org mode plugin for vim?

bokchoi 11y ago
https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode