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I'm about to dive into org mode for the first time today. Do you have any tips for learning it? My plan was to open up the manual and start reading, but maybe

• weavie 11y ago
  You may find this helpful (http://sachachua.com/blog/2014/01/tips-learning-org-mode-emacs/ http://sachachua.com/blog/2014/01/tips-learning-org-mode-ema...). Also remember org mode is as simple or as complex as you want it to be!
• krylon 11y ago
  I started reading the documentation, which is pretty good, IMHO. I use only a small fraction of org-mode's features, though. There is so much one could do with org-mode, but I don't have enough time to get acquainted with all the features and get into the habit of using them... Not right away at least.
• lemonberry 11y ago
  The Org documentation is a great place to start, but this comment opened my eyes to things I was doing wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11386943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11386943
• dahart 11y ago
  Maybe learn to type right-handed so you can keep your left hand on TAB. ;)
• tetraodonpuffer 11y ago
  there is a ton of stuff here http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html for me the initial "aha" moment was when I realized I could do an agenda window with multiple customizable horizontal blocks, so at a glance I can see deadlines, projects I am working on and so on Adding to this something like being able to fulltext search across all my org files via org-occur-in-agenda-files is awesome too