From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jason F. McBrayer" Subject: Re: Need tip/suggesting:org-mode for note taking Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:21:17 -0500 Message-ID: <336747f95d3cdd0a30bc00cad4006d2d@marie.carcosa.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33102) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWTv2-0006CB-HB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:21:30 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWTuy-00045U-1B for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:21:24 -0500 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]:8058) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWTux-00045G-Th for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:21:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 2012-11-08 4:58, 包乾 wrote: > 1. I am not familiar with taking notes in plain text file. Usually > plain text file means hard to navigate, hard to read, ugly > structure, to me. Emacs could handle org file quite well, but > WITHOUT emacs, on windows pc, on mobile device, plain txt is just > disaster. For mobile devices, you can use MobileOrg on iOS or Android. Also, on most Android tablets, you can use Emacs[1] itself. For MS Windows, you can install Emacs normally, or, if you're concerned about using your Org-Mode notes on other peoples' computers, you may want to try Portable Emacs[2] on a USB flash drive. You can also, in a pinch, use any other text editor (that is smart enough to handle cross-platform line endings), though, of course, you'll lose the folding and highlighting features that make org-mode files easy to navigate. > 2. I don't know how organize all my contents when it become more and > more. With a hand writing notebook, I have physical "pages", in > Microsoft Word, I also have virtual "pages". In org-mode org file, I > don't. It's like my org file is a endless roll of toilet > paper(forgive me for being rude)! And I think it's the main reason > makes me feels so uncomfortable to handle org file. You can use top-level headlines for this, and always fold headlines that you're not looking at. Some other people have also metioned tags. The agenda and sparse trees are other ways org-mode offers of looking at subsets of your data. > 3. Hard to import pictures, web pages...into org file.(In fact I > don't > know how). You can use hyperlinks in org-mode to link to things basically anywhere (on the web, on your hard drive, etc.), but if you want something like Evernote, you *probably* want to read the org info node on "Attachments". Hope this helps! [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zielm.emacs [2]: http://esnm.sourceforge.net/EmacsPortable.html -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Jason F. McBrayer jmcbray@carcosa.net | | If someone conquers a thousand times a thousand others in | | battle, and someone else conquers himself, the latter one | | is the greatest of all conquerors. --- The Dhammapada |