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A decade or so, I did _everything_ in emacs. I was never more productive and I attribute it partially to the sort of flow that Legend seems to be trying to make

by jaaron 5y ago

A decade or so, I did _everything_ in emacs. I was never more productive and I attribute it partially to the sort of flow that Legend seems to be trying to make. Smartphones are what killed it for me. As I switched to using my smartphone + tablet more, it broke my emacs setup. I'm still trying to get it back.

selfhoster11 5y ago
Smart devices suck for deep focus productivity and organisation. Ultimately what works is either the desktop Outlook application or some offline gadget that can sync to your PC.
unemphysbro 5y ago
vi todo.txt the same file served me well for over a decade. :)
- nixpulvis 5y ago
  Stupid question, but what do you do from your phone? I would like to put my grocery list in the same system as the rest of my notes/todos.
  - bee_rider 5y ago
    If you had a publicly accessible server, you could SSH to it and vi todo.txt there. But I'm not sure this would be worth the effort of setting up...
  - stevage 5y ago
    I would probably put the file in Dropbox . Easy to read on the phone. Can probably edit it too.
  - frereubu 5y ago
    I do this with text files and add them to Dropbox, then mark them as offline files for easy access in the Dropbox mobile app.
  - unemphysbro 5y ago
    I have another todo list in my mac's notes 'app' which syncs to my phone. However, for non-work stuff, I usually rely on pen-and-paper lists. It works for me, I've experimented with a few apps but they've never stuck within my workflow.
  - smichel17 5y ago
    I strongly recommend Simpletask (disclosure, I've sent a couple PRs). Not visually polished, but functionality is the best, bar none: Lua scripts allow extensive customization of your workflow. Free & open source. Only on F-Droid due to asinine Play Store policies.
  - nonbirithm 5y ago
    That's the thing. I attempted to get into the org productivity zone a while ago but it fell apart the moment I needed mobile support and syncing. Unfortunately, the mobile org clients of the time didn't support syncing well enough to be viable for my use case - not to mention that all the customization I had painstakingly set up within emacs didn't transfer to the mobile clients either. I suspect it's impractical to adapt the Emacs workflow to the task of syncing data across devices that is now the expected norm, and other services will have to rise up in its place. If all you have is a filesystem, up-to-date syncing across multiple devices is just a really hard problem (coming from someone who could never get Syncthing to work reliably). However, I have heard of the remoteStorage protocol, which is supposed to be an open-source syncing protocol that replaces Dropbox and the like, but it's still in its infancy. Maybe adding support for it as a plugin to sync directly from Emacs, instead of using a "dumb" polling filesystem monitor, could become an option. https://remotestorage.io https://remotestorage.io
  - 1MachineElf 5y ago
    On Android, there's Markor. It supports todo.txt, and I use Syncthing to keep it synchronized with my various devices and computers.
timbaboon 5y ago
Our IT dept at work is super strict with everything, to the point that I don’t even bother accessing anything work related on any device other than my work machine. Nor am I allowed to actually (so these tools like Legend are by default unusable). By the same token, I refuse to put any personal info on the work machine. The upside of this is that I’ve been able to go back to using emacs for everything :)
bee_rider 5y ago
iOS has a couple decent ssh clients, if you are into command line stuff. Blink and Panic both seem fine, although I'm sure I'll get some better suggestions now as that is the inevitable result of publicly airing an opinion on an ssh client. :)
- macintux 5y ago
  There’s also Beorg to natively access org-mode files on iOS, but I’ve not spent enough time to get comfortable with it, so I mostly don’t bother.
fuzzybear3965 5y ago
I read this a few times trying to understand this. I guess OP means: > I was very productive, then, using emacs. "I was never more productive" isn't wrong, and in context it should be clear. But, I read this like "Never, using emacs, did I experience increased productivity". It reminds me of that trope, "Couldn't care less".
- pchristensen 5y ago
  I believe OP meant it as "I was never more productive than when I used emacs."
  - fuzzybear3965 5y ago
    Yeah, I agree. That's what I tried to say.
haskal 5y ago
Is there a good screencast series about people doing stuff in Emacs? Not like a tutorial like "press C-x" etc. I just want to know what is possible, or what people mean by "I did _everything_ in emacs".

by jaaron 5y ago

selfhoster11 5y ago

Smart devices suck for deep focus productivity and organisation. Ultimately what works is either the desktop Outlook application or some offline gadget that can sync to your PC.

unemphysbro 5y ago

vi todo.txt the same file served me well for over a decade. :)

nixpulvis 5y ago
Stupid question, but what do you do from your phone? I would like to put my grocery list in the same system as the rest of my notes/todos.
- bee_rider 5y ago
  If you had a publicly accessible server, you could SSH to it and vi todo.txt there. But I'm not sure this would be worth the effort of setting up...
- stevage 5y ago
  I would probably put the file in Dropbox . Easy to read on the phone. Can probably edit it too.
- frereubu 5y ago
  I do this with text files and add them to Dropbox, then mark them as offline files for easy access in the Dropbox mobile app.
- unemphysbro 5y ago
  I have another todo list in my mac's notes 'app' which syncs to my phone. However, for non-work stuff, I usually rely on pen-and-paper lists. It works for me, I've experimented with a few apps but they've never stuck within my workflow.
- smichel17 5y ago
  I strongly recommend Simpletask (disclosure, I've sent a couple PRs). Not visually polished, but functionality is the best, bar none: Lua scripts allow extensive customization of your workflow. Free & open source. Only on F-Droid due to asinine Play Store policies.
- nonbirithm 5y ago
  That's the thing. I attempted to get into the org productivity zone a while ago but it fell apart the moment I needed mobile support and syncing. Unfortunately, the mobile org clients of the time didn't support syncing well enough to be viable for my use case - not to mention that all the customization I had painstakingly set up within emacs didn't transfer to the mobile clients either. I suspect it's impractical to adapt the Emacs workflow to the task of syncing data across devices that is now the expected norm, and other services will have to rise up in its place. If all you have is a filesystem, up-to-date syncing across multiple devices is just a really hard problem (coming from someone who could never get Syncthing to work reliably). However, I have heard of the remoteStorage protocol, which is supposed to be an open-source syncing protocol that replaces Dropbox and the like, but it's still in its infancy. Maybe adding support for it as a plugin to sync directly from Emacs, instead of using a "dumb" polling filesystem monitor, could become an option. https://remotestorage.io https://remotestorage.io
- 1MachineElf 5y ago
  On Android, there's Markor. It supports todo.txt, and I use Syncthing to keep it synchronized with my various devices and computers.

timbaboon 5y ago

Our IT dept at work is super strict with everything, to the point that I don’t even bother accessing anything work related on any device other than my work machine. Nor am I allowed to actually (so these tools like Legend are by default unusable). By the same token, I refuse to put any personal info on the work machine. The upside of this is that I’ve been able to go back to using emacs for everything :)

bee_rider 5y ago

iOS has a couple decent ssh clients, if you are into command line stuff. Blink and Panic both seem fine, although I'm sure I'll get some better suggestions now as that is the inevitable result of publicly airing an opinion on an ssh client. :)

macintux 5y ago
There’s also Beorg to natively access org-mode files on iOS, but I’ve not spent enough time to get comfortable with it, so I mostly don’t bother.

fuzzybear3965 5y ago

I read this a few times trying to understand this. I guess OP means: > I was very productive, then, using emacs. "I was never more productive" isn't wrong, and in context it should be clear. But, I read this like "Never, using emacs, did I experience increased productivity". It reminds me of that trope, "Couldn't care less".

pchristensen 5y ago
I believe OP meant it as "I was never more productive than when I used emacs."
- fuzzybear3965 5y ago
  Yeah, I agree. That's what I tried to say.

haskal 5y ago

Is there a good screencast series about people doing stuff in Emacs? Not like a tutorial like "press C-x" etc. I just want to know what is possible, or what people mean by "I did _everything_ in emacs".