Boost Productivity With Emacs, Org Mode and Org Agenda DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Jeff
I just don't understand org-mode's use case, except for a super simple context. Specifically.. org-mdoe data isn't really portable nor sharable, right? (sure, you can export it..)
ie: agenda or to-do list - not at my desk all day, and I constantly review and update my to-do list. So, its really gotta be on the phone as well as desk. It seems we're just now getting some simplified web-view UIs for org-mode files, but thats a new and very clunky thing. If you're just talking about say work-context, so you are at your desk/laptop all day so agenda coudl work .. well, then you already have an Exchange or google-cal solution that everyone on your team/company shares. For note-taking and documentation, well, everyone on the team already doing Confluence or whatever wiki of the year they're using. ie: for team work, you're using whatever the team is using, and chances are very high you'd be the only Emacs guy in the shop. For non-work context, at home, sure, you can do what you wnt.. but then its about the portability.
For general notes on your own work laptop, can work for sure, I should think, but since other use cases don't seem to work, I've never bothered with it.
After being an Emacs nerd for decades, I really really would love to find a use case for org-mod, but I just don't see it.
Someone enlighten me ;)
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I just don't understand org-mode's use case, except for a super simple context. Specifically.. org-mdoe data isn't really portable nor sharable, right? (sure, you can export it..)
ie: agenda or to-do list - not at my desk all day, and I constantly review and update my to-do list. So, its really gotta be on the phone as well as desk. It seems we're just now getting some simplified web-view UIs for org-mode files, but thats a new and very clunky thing. If you're just talking about say work-context, so you are at your desk/laptop all day so agenda coudl work .. well, then you already have an Exchange or google-cal solution that everyone on your team/company shares. For note-taking and documentation, well, everyone on the team already doing Confluence or whatever wiki of the year they're using. ie: for team work, you're using whatever the team is using, and chances are very high you'd be the only Emacs guy in the shop. For non-work context, at home, sure, you can do what you wnt.. but then its about the portability.
For general notes on your own work laptop, can work for sure, I should think, but since other use cases don't seem to work, I've never bothered with it.
After being an Emacs nerd for decades, I really really would love to find a use case for org-mod, but I just don't see it.
Someone enlighten me ;)
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Nasreddine
Add this in your config.el file in doom-emacs :
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda ()
-Beautify Org Checkbox Symbol-
(push '(-[ ]- . ---) prettify-symbols-alist)
(push '(-[X]- . --- ) prettify-symbols-alist)
(push '(-[-]- . --- ) prettify-symbols-alist)
(prettify-symbols-mode)))
Then in the command line type: .emacs.d/bin/doom sync
This will add some cool looking boxes in org-mode. If it doesn't appear right away:
M-x: prettify-symbols-mode
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Add this in your config.el file in doom-emacs :
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda ()
-Beautify Org Checkbox Symbol-
(push '(-[ ]- . ---) prettify-symbols-alist)
(push '(-[X]- . --- ) prettify-symbols-alist)
(push '(-[-]- . --- ) prettify-symbols-alist)
(prettify-symbols-mode)))
Then in the command line type: .emacs.d/bin/doom sync
This will add some cool looking boxes in org-mode. If it doesn't appear right away:
M-x: prettify-symbols-mode
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Andy
Org agenda gets hosed--no todos, scheduled tasks, etc--if in my config.el, I add anything other than my name, email address, doom theme, and org directory. Keywords, requirements, and hooks, oh my. How the heck do you undo a config.el? No amount of editing, reloading and restarting fixes it. Is there a brainmap of the other 7 files that do not get updated dynamically and must be edited/delete scrubbed by hand? I'm good now at installing doom emacs
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Org agenda gets hosed--no todos, scheduled tasks, etc--if in my config.el, I add anything other than my name, email address, doom theme, and org directory. Keywords, requirements, and hooks, oh my. How the heck do you undo a config.el? No amount of editing, reloading and restarting fixes it. Is there a brainmap of the other 7 files that do not get updated dynamically and must be edited/delete scrubbed by hand? I'm good now at installing doom emacs
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DevDungeon
I was watching Richard Stallman explain when and why he started emacs and it sounded like it was the first thing he made and focused on making it really portable. It makes so much sense now why it became a framework for building stuff inside and how it got the reputation for being an entire OS. They didn't have a free OS but having portable emacs was the closest alternative.
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I was watching Richard Stallman explain when and why he started emacs and it sounded like it was the first thing he made and focused on making it really portable. It makes so much sense now why it became a framework for building stuff inside and how it got the reputation for being an entire OS. They didn't have a free OS but having portable emacs was the closest alternative.
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jastern949
Great, thank you. Good intro for newbs. I love that you use a great mic. Love seeing audio excellence.
To improve:
1. install and turn on screenkey: to show your keystrokes in real time at bottom of screen
2. provide key binding equivalents for non-Doom emacsen (e.g. -C-c C-t t- to mark as -TODO-): for wider audience
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Great, thank you. Good intro for newbs. I love that you use a great mic. Love seeing audio excellence.
To improve:
1. install and turn on screenkey: to show your keystrokes in real time at bottom of screen
2. provide key binding equivalents for non-Doom emacsen (e.g. -C-c C-t t- to mark as -TODO-): for wider audience
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fisyr
For me personally this kind of schedule keeping is only useful if I can have it on my phone. Fortunately there are apps that can interpret org mode on the phone as well as keep it synchronized with cloud. Once I also write a script that keeps it in sync with my calendar app, this could be potentially very useful.
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For me personally this kind of schedule keeping is only useful if I can have it on my phone. Fortunately there are apps that can interpret org mode on the phone as well as keep it synchronized with cloud. Once I also write a script that keeps it in sync with my calendar app, this could be potentially very useful.
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Bounga
Nice video. It-s really interesting to watch you go through Doom Emacs. I-m a user myself and really like it! Did you know that you can turn on big font mode for your screen casts? All your buffers will have a descent font size for streams and screencast. I think the shortcut is SPC-t-b. Keep up the good work.
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Nice video. It-s really interesting to watch you go through Doom Emacs. I-m a user myself and really like it! Did you know that you can turn on big font mode for your screen casts? All your buffers will have a descent font size for streams and screencast. I think the shortcut is SPC-t-b. Keep up the good work.
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Steve
For years I have been a believer that NeoVim was the end-all be-all of text editors. But alas I have seen the light of your videos. I have begun to learn the evil(mode) ways of Emacs. I have seen that which is Org mode. And Org mode is heckin glorious.
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For years I have been a believer that NeoVim was the end-all be-all of text editors. But alas I have seen the light of your videos. I have begun to learn the evil(mode) ways of Emacs. I have seen that which is Org mode. And Org mode is heckin glorious.
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Sergey
You can find these features in modern productivity tools like Notion, Google/Apple calendar, Reminders, etc... With a nice UI and no issues with synchronization with mobile devices. I do not quite get it what precisely a -game-changer- here.
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You can find these features in modern productivity tools like Notion, Google/Apple calendar, Reminders, etc... With a nice UI and no issues with synchronization with mobile devices. I do not quite get it what precisely a -game-changer- here.
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itech
Using org-mode for years now, still learned some stuff from your vid - thanks!
The key-bindings have never felt unnatural when using them, but listening to you explaining them makes me realize how bonkers they actually are -
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Using org-mode for years now, still learned some stuff from your vid - thanks!
The key-bindings have never felt unnatural when using them, but listening to you explaining them makes me realize how bonkers they actually are -
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