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Interesting article. I have to admit to never thinking of Org-mode as a markup language unto itself.

by Crontab 9y ago

mikekchar 9y ago
I used Org mode a long time ago (maybe a decade) and then I switched to vim (for boring reasons) and kind of lost track of Org mode. In the meantime I started using markdown and especially github flavoured markdown for writing. Eventually, I was looking for a TODO app and realised the Org mode gave me everything I was looking for -- and Emacs was a dramatically better UI than any other TODO app that I looked at. This got me back to Emacs (now enhanced with Evil mode which works remarkably well). The interesting thing is that I've completely switched back to Org mode for notes. I don't even use any of the org mode features in Emacs when I'm writing. As the author of the article says, I just find it a more convenient text markup language. Sometimes I'll update org mode documents in Vim and I don't even really realise that I'm doing it because all I really want is structured documentation with folding. However, I think for org mode to become mainstream you have to get another editor with some feature parity to Emacs. Tables are a killer feature of Org mode in Emacs. Another thing that I think is needed is better renderers outside of Emacs. Github has an orgmode renderer and it is not very good at all. I have a colleague that does all his project planning in Org mode (highly recommend, by the way) and he converts his documents to github flavoured markdown before pushing them -- which is crazy. I'd love to see this format gain some more traction...
- vvanders 9y ago
  Yeah, as a heavy vim users who wanted org mode Spacemacs in Evil mode was all that I needed. One thing I love with org mode is how dynamic the document is. Inserting [/] or [%] to get updated task count/percentage as TODO underneath the header is fantastic.

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Interesting article. I have to admit to never thinking of Org-mode as a markup language unto itself.

by Crontab 9y ago

Interesting article. I have to admit to never thinking of Org-mode as a markup language unto itself.

mikekchar 9y ago
I used Org mode a long time ago (maybe a decade) and then I switched to vim (for boring reasons) and kind of lost track of Org mode. In the meantime I started using markdown and especially github flavoured markdown for writing. Eventually, I was looking for a TODO app and realised the Org mode gave me everything I was looking for -- and Emacs was a dramatically better UI than any other TODO app that I looked at. This got me back to Emacs (now enhanced with Evil mode which works remarkably well). The interesting thing is that I've completely switched back to Org mode for notes. I don't even use any of the org mode features in Emacs when I'm writing. As the author of the article says, I just find it a more convenient text markup language. Sometimes I'll update org mode documents in Vim and I don't even really realise that I'm doing it because all I really want is structured documentation with folding. However, I think for org mode to become mainstream you have to get another editor with some feature parity to Emacs. Tables are a killer feature of Org mode in Emacs. Another thing that I think is needed is better renderers outside of Emacs. Github has an orgmode renderer and it is not very good at all. I have a colleague that does all his project planning in Org mode (highly recommend, by the way) and he converts his documents to github flavoured markdown before pushing them -- which is crazy. I'd love to see this format gain some more traction...
- vvanders 9y ago
  Yeah, as a heavy vim users who wanted org mode Spacemacs in Evil mode was all that I needed. One thing I love with org mode is how dynamic the document is. Inserting [/] or [%] to get updated task count/percentage as TODO underneath the header is fantastic.