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Ask HN: Why you prefer emacs org-mode over onenote?
I know most of HN prefers or guide over anything else since it provided flexibility. I personally used it for 3 months now and found myself slowin down. Here are few problems where onenote works perfectly:
1. I struggle at creating richer documents with pictures and audio video in it.
2. My company uses outlook. Linking tasks to email becomes a task in itself.
3. Capturing snippets from Web or quick bookmarking fails if I select too much text from the page.
4. Task scheduling can't take parameters like repeat only Monday to Wednesday. Only solution is to duplicate the tasks with shifted timeliness.
5. No way to continue working on phone or tab. Mobileorg is great for tasks tracking but continuing to work on existing files is a chore.
that said I liked it and I want to continue to use it over products like onenote, but this slow down makes it very tedious to use daily.
How you people solve these issues?
- ms013 12y agoI'm not one of the org-mode users. I've been a big fan of Onenote for a while - works great on my phone, mac, and windows computer. I tried org-mode when one of my co-workers kept talking about it, but it didn't really work for my workflow, even though I use emacs for most of my code-related tasks. Just use whatever works best for you - if you want to use Onenote, it doesn't really matter if org-mode or some other tool happens to be more popular in some community.
- superuser2 12y agoOne-note pushes 100% CPU utilization and fans at full speed while idling on OSX, draining my normally 8-hour battery in ~45 minutes. Not enough to get through class. It's been a known issue for many months. Emacs, on the other hand, is a text editor.
- TheDataMan 12y agoUmm, doesn't happen on mine.
- zbiko 12y agoA cool alternative to org-mode is xiki - http://xiki.org/ http://xiki.org/ or freenode #xiki. It's a Wiki inside Emacs (similar to org-mode) integrated with the shell (eXecutable wIKI).
- auganov 12y agoI don't really see org-mode people talking about OneNote too much? Anyways, I'm a big Emacs and OneNote user. I don't see how you could translate my OneNote stuff into org-mode. I chaotically layout stuff, often in 3 columns, use a lot of pictures, links, different sizes of font, pen input etc
- drieddust 12y agoThanks I believe I need to do the same and start using both.