Org-mode is for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system. Org is implemented on top of Outline mode, which makes it possible to keep the content of large files well structured. Visibility cycling and structure editing help to work with the tree.
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This looks really good! I used to use org mode as part of my daily workflow, but now that I don't have to submit timesheets I've got out of the habit.At the time, though, it was wonderful. Once I'd spent some time getting used to org-clock, it becamse a much less intrusive workflow than switching apps to log time. Plus, you get beautiful tables at the end of it detailing your day, and all your notes for each item if you need them.I even wrote some (probably terrible) elisp to collect my day's time data and post the items to our timesheet API. Mainly so I could show off to my colleagues, but also something I would never even attempt in Vim.Edit: found it! Personally I'm currently using Toggl: even though the backend is proprietary, the Mac tool is lightweight, well designed and, curiously, open source. However, I could use some divorce from proprietary services sucking up my detailed time records.Could anyone please comment as to how Org-clock's recording interface compares to Toggl?
Especially, can it respect me going afk and count it as a break after five minutes? Toggl has a great dialog for this, amounting to ‘stop or continue.’ As for the reporting side, I mostly need just a summary of my time-wasting achievements over a week.I suppose that Org-clock doesn't leave the confines of Emacs itself?
Which must limit its abilities in measuring the activity. Personally I could see myself using org-clock in isolation, even if just for the fact that I end up with a non-proprietary log. I've lost too much history to various different tools (some of them turned out less than ideal, some just went belly-up).It's difficult to know though, because I started using org-clock alongside org-mode, and if you combine time-tracking with outlining, journalling, todo/project management, and a calendar, all of it well integrated, it's hard to imagine switching to something else.EDIT: also, just remembered that one reason I quite using Toggl was that clocktables turned out much more powerful for analyzing/reporting my hours. There are so many fantastic Org mode tutorials for users already familiar with Emacs. My goal here was to show users who've never touched Emacs before - and might be a little scared of it! - that it isn't really that hard.
Most tutorials I've seen jump straight into configuring the agenda keyboard shortcut in a users Emacs configuration file. This would put the uses I'm trying to reach off straight away.I intend a follow up article where keyboard shortcuts are used - and enforce they are a big part of the reason that Org mode can be so much more efficient than other task management solutions. You can configure your terminal to send ^? Instead of ^H (and use `stty erase '^?' ` to configure your tty), but AFAIK there's no difference in the terminal between holding control while hitting backspace and not holding control (whether you have it set up to send the ^H or ^?), because of how keys map to ascii codes (see 0).Your terminal either sends ^H (0x08) or ^? (0x3f) (or really anything else you desire, if you can set up your terminal that way) when you hit backspace. Control plus either of those keys would mean subtracting 0x40 from them, which is either negative or wraps around for both of them, so it's nonsensical.Whereas, the GUI interprets the keyboard completely differently and allows you to express keys like 'control + backspace'.
This is the main reason I prefer using gui versions of Emacs.0. I use beorgI like beorgBut I’m beginning to think the correct solution for emacs org mode on iOS is something where I have a server running emacs with all my configurations and customizations, while the app is just a dumb ui that sends the commands to the server for processing. Beorg, or any app that isn’t a full blown emacs implementation (which will never be allowed in the Apple app Store) will never be able to fit my customized workflow fullyEdit: just noticed there’s no mention of beorg in the article so my comment might seem a little schizophrenic:-p.
I use just plain text file opened in plain text editor with following conventions:# Topic A task. @tag #ticket A subtask. A sub-sub-task.+ Completed task.- Failed task. Partially completed task.
WIP.! Urgent task.^ High priority task.Easy to store. Easy to share. Easy to edit at any device with plain text editor.The only feature I miss is grouping of sub-tasks. For example, I may want to group all subtasks from all projects(topics), which I need to do at place X (e.g.
At parents home), so I will prepare for them. I cannot select them all without using of SQL engine or grep like tool. If editor can highlight a search term, it helps, but for long lists it easy to miss. Spacemacs doesn't magically liberate you from having to learn EmacsUnderstandable, and not an issue for me.My first issue was that there is an error from the start in the main version. That bug was fixed, but syl20bnr refused to do a hotfix. To make matters worse the main download that a new user gets is 13 months old at this point.So a new user can either install the hotfix themselves or move to the dev branch.
A new user isn't informed that they should just be on the dev branch and that due amount of changes since the last main branch release that the new user is better off deleting everything and starting over straight from the dev branch. diagrams with plant uml.any tip on getting that working faster? (it takes seconds!!!) I generally prefer to edit the plantuml markup and see the diagram update instantly (like. Depending on your point of view, Org mode has the advantage of being plain text and free software. It is a system you could still be using in 10-15 years time. Todoist might be have bought by Microsoft (or similar) by then and discontinued.
This is probably a good reason why Org mode is appealing to academics who may be on a research project for many years - you need to be using something that is going to stay the course.Org mode does a lot more than Todoist (literate programming, spreadsheet features which I personally use in project proposals for calculating costings, exporting complex documents, logging time.) However all that power might be a distraction depending on what you need the tool for:).
Org-mode, love it.I've been trying to set up the mac to export anything to pdf. No easy way yet.First there's org-export-as-pdf which first exports to pdf then generates a pdf.I get 'pdflatex: command not found', fair enough. Stumped.Other option is org-export-as-docbook-pdf which exports as DocBook XML then pdf.In this case I get 'XSLT processor command is not set correctly'.In both cases the.tex and.xml files are generated.In both cases I get through enough reading to think: 'there must be an easier way', and here I am.Thanks.Mac OS X 10.6.7Emacs.app 23.2.1Org-mode 7.4. I think the short answer is that you'll need to install either of the missing tools. In my case, I use LaTeX extensively, so I have TeX Live installed. That will give you pdflatex which will let org-export-as-pdf work properly.
However, TeX is a huge system (several hundred megabytes to download), so if your only need for it is org-mode, you might rather install a docbook processor.I'm not an expert on org-mode, so maybe there's a way around it. You could generate HTML and convert that to PDF using the method of your choice, but I'm guessing the optimum path is to install one of the processors needed. In order to export an org-mode file to pdf (xslt+fo) in osx:. Install docbook stylesheets, an xslt and a fo processors$ brew install docbook saxon fop.
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Set variables as specified by org-mode documentation, and your processors' documentation:(require 'org-docbook);;(setq org-export-docbook-xsl-fo-proc-command '/usr/local/bin/fop '%i' '%o')(setq org-export-docbook-xslt-proc-command '/usr/local/bin/saxon -o:'%o' -s:'%i' -xsl:'%s')(setq org-export-docbook-xslt-stylesheet '/usr/local/Cellar/docbook/5.0/docbook/xsl-ns/1.77.1/fo/docbook.xsl')For more up to date information.
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