5 Reasons I Love Emacs Orgmode

[@ex0stasis72]

One of the reasons that has convinced me to come back to Emacs and Orgmode is that with the upcoming release of Emacs 30.1, they are releasing an official Android port of Emacs with touch screen and virtual keyboard support. I had switched to Obsidian because I didn't find Orgzly a satisfying solution to having my Orgmode files on the go. But I can put up with it for another year until Emacs 30.1 comes out and becomes supported by Doom Emacs.

[@GavinFreeborn]

If you use fdroid you can install it now! it's just a little lacking when it comes fully supporting mobile devices.

[@ex0stasis72]

@@GavinFreeborn That's true, but I'm not quiet ready to leave behind Doom Emacs yet and not yet comfortable with running both the bleeding edge of both Emacs' and Doom Emacs' development builds and determining which one is at fault for issues that may arise. Hey, that got me thinking. I don't have to couple my Emacs configs with my org-mode content. Nothing stopping me from just trying out vanilla Emacs 30 on Android and point it at synced org folder. I think I'll try that.

[@MarkieAurelius]

@@ex0stasis72 how was it?

[@laughingvampire7555]

this idea of text files organized by links is just our good ole hypertext/hypermedia, I love it, this is why to me, emacs is more like an 1980's browser than an OS. Is like a freer form & nerdier Apple's Hypercard.

[@ChristopherMaiorana]

Gavin, great video. Would love to learn more about how you got that time block in your agenda.

[@randomsearches369]

Its org-super-agenda from the great Adam Porter

[@slalomsk8er397]

Emacs is a graphical shell like KDE, Gnome or Xfce and like them it has tools like a IRC client or a text editor. Also like them, it's possible to run it as a windows manager in X.

[@rahilarious]

I wish there was more video content on Emacs & related stuff. As I hate reading long docs these days.

[@AndersJackson]

There are several Emacs users videos, beside Gavin Freeborn. Like @System Crafters and @Prostesilaos Stavrou @EmacsConf @DistroTube @Tsoding etc etc.

[@Chris-mm]

Great video! Even if org-mode wasn't best in class (imo) for note tasking and task management, the fact that it's natively inside my editor and I don't need to go somewhere else to reference things while i'm working and can easily go back and forth is huge. My work life would've fallen apart a long time ago if it weren't for doing Getting Things Done methodology in org-mode.

[@sumanth3036]

Good overview. How are you unhiding emphasis markers on focus 😟 that will be useful

[@GavinFreeborn]

I'm using the Org-appear package

[@adriansrfr]

Not sure if you've covered task management in detail, but i would be interested. Trying to figure out how to get completed tasks moved to another file.

[@GavinFreeborn]

I have kinda talked about it but I would be happy to do a proper deep dive later. What you want to use the archive functionality

[@GavinFreeborn]

Here is some simple elisp code to archive all tasks in a file that are marked as `DONE` ``` (defun my-org-archive-done-tasks () (interactive) (org-map-entries 'org-archive-subtree "/DONE" 'file)) ```

[@adriansrfr]

@@GavinFreeborn, that simplicity is amazing. This alone might be enough to convert me to emacs from vim. Between that and image support...those are huuuge

[@majorgear1021]

Since I spend 40 hours a week at work using my employer’s laptop, I’d need a way to access my personal notes over the Web or synced to my personal phone before I could consider using Emacs Org mode. Can Org Mode data be accessed in either of those ways?

[@intermarer9145]

7:07 Where did you get the export to MD from? Mine doesn't have that option.

[@MENTOKz]

great video gavin looks like u been buzzy with your job.

[@fbg5678]

I want to be cool like you guys, use this cool stuff.

[@randomsearches369]

I love you!

[@blahblah49000]

If you like org-ql, you'll also find org-super-agenda useful.

[@Denim117]

متشکرم از اطلاعاتت👏

[@SummerEmacs]

I just wanted to offer some constructive criticism 🙃 (just a small point): Your video would be perfect for the lay person who is not a programmer. However, most Emacs/Orgmode videos that I've seen use a dark theme. Programmers need to realise that if they're trying to appeal to non-programmers, most of them do not use a dark theme. Many think it looks pretty scary. It can turn a lot of potential users away because it looks like what they imagine "coding" looks like. 👩🏼‍💻 I suggest using a light theme ☀ that looks more like what they might be used to with most note-taking apps. White background with black text. Trust me, you'll scare a lot less of them away if it looks like what they think a text editor looks like. Yes, I know that we've had "dark mode" on our devices for a few years now, but again: most people type on a white page with black text. That looks more natural to them. Just a thought. I love the video though, tysm. 🙃

[@GavinFreeborn]

Thanks! That's actually great feedback. I hadn't considered that

[@SummerEmacs]

@@GavinFreeborn ty! And you're welcome. 🙃

[@laughingvampire7555]

If that is true then why is obsidian so popular?

[@laughingvampire7555]

also, MacOS has a dark mode and lots of people use it, people who are non-programmers. There are already amazing org-mode tutorials with a light theme like Rainer König's, Protos switches from light to dark. Where is this "constructive criticism" comes from?

[@vagrant1943]

Well if it gets more views then more power to you. I for one loathe videos with light themes. Messes with my eyes at night.

[@auntiecarol]

Hyperbole offers really rich linking in org files. Might be worth a video, if you have the time.

[@GavinFreeborn]

I have played with it a few times. I haven't managed to get hooked yet but I really should give it another go.

[@oantolin]

Well, Org also offers really rich linking in org files, and elsewhere too: org-open-at-point-global will follow an org link in any buffer.

[@shinu-ft6sr]

top orgmode

[@laughingvampire7555]

calling emacs an OS because you can extend it with scripts is like calling bash an OS because you can extend it with scripts

[@cherryramatis2508]

I wouldn’t call it an OS either, but you can use eMacs as a whole window manager, you can’t with bash in your analogy

[@11kilobytes]

I'd say that Emacs is much more like a web browser than like bash. It has e.g. an async process runtime, it's own music player, shells and so on. Many people associate an operating system with its userland/desktop shell and/or browser and Emacs is a host platform for those things. This is what is meant by the... admittedly joke phrase: "Emacs is an OS"

[@laughingvampire7555]

@@cherryramatis2508 the key of the analogy is the extensibility and thus the analogy holds.

[@laughingvampire7555]

​@@11kilobytes And you can do all of those things with every scripting language out there, and they are not being called "operating systems", are they?

[@test99947]

this comment is a prime example of why autism is NOT a superpower