Dear Richard, great job: great voice and an excellent way to get started! - ScreenFlow is probably the best (commercial) choice on the Mac, we also used it for Carsten's presentation at our institute. - One thing about showing the keystrokes: we prefer to use Aquamacs on the Mac (not least because it works out-of-the-box with a German keyboard and the usual Mac shortcuts), here "Meta" usually is the Alt key, another argument for not showing the Mac-specific "Cmd"-key icon. We now use Org-mode to create personal pages for staff members of our institute, unfortunately, some parts of the documentation still need an English version: http://www.nf.mpg.de/cv-howto/cv-en.html. This example even implements hCard markup, http://www.nf.mpg.de/cv-howto/ex3-en.html (this was triggered by a suggestion from Shelagh Manton on this list). Your screencast has given me some ideas on how to present something on HTML generation with Org-mode as a screencast - maybe we can collaborate on this? Warm regards, Stefan On 24.09.2010, at 05:34, Richard Moreland wrote: > Erik, thanks for the reminder about folding. I had it in my script and must've lost it in one of the edits. I do prefer making these on the Mac. It makes piecing them together much easier. Recordmydesktop on Linux will do single takes fine, but stitching it together in the end may be a chore. Maybe you guys are good enough to do it all in one take though :) > > John, you raise good points about what we can expect of the viewer. I'm open to suggestions, in fact maybe a 'Just enough Emacs for Org-mode' intro could help newcomers to Emacs who are here just for Org-mode (like I was a year ago). Some of these issues could also be addressed on the episode's webpage, which would link to relevant docs and info. > > As far as some of the missing keystrokes, I was trying to find a balance between showing every keystroke (and risk confusing the user), or just show only the keys with modifiers (my 2 options in the tool, unfortunately). > > I've updated the screencast (same URL) to contain a small bit about folding. > > Thanks for the comments, I hope we can refine this and make a plan for more as well. > > -Richard > > On Sep 23, 2010, at 11:09 PM, John Hendy wrote: > >> Wow, Richard. That was sweet. You even have a pleasing "screencaster's voice." >> >> My only thought was along the lines of what one should assume about org-mode viewers. Familiarity with emacs? No knowledge of emacs? I only got into emacs because I found org-mode, so my only thought there is that I might not even have known what "meta" was... I can't recall, but did you clarify meta = alt on Win/Linux and Command on Mac? >> >> Stuff like that might be helpful. Obviously these won't all be done on a Mac and some unfamiliar with it might wonder what the Command and carat symbols are on their own keyboards? >> >> As Erik said -- folding and perhaps adjusting in and out (meta + left/right). Also, it seems that only the meta or control functions show up as keystrokes. For example, I thought you said "M-n s" and "M-n w" to narrow on the tree and then widen the view but I only ever saw one part of that flash on the screen. >> >> Great, great job. Loved it and think this is exactly what Org could use. I have a co-worker who just got emacs and org-mode up on his computer and would love to have something this simple and clear-cut. >> >> >> Great work, again. >> John >> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Erik Iverson wrote: >> On 09/23/2010 07:45 PM, Richard Moreland wrote: >> I jumped the gun a bit and decided to put together a video showing the very basics. It seems overly simple when I re-watch it, but I think it is helpful for those who are unsure how to get started with the basics of Org-mode. >> >> http://ncogni.to/org-screencasts/1-basics/ >> >> Feedback is welcome, these were the least exciting topics to cover, but I wasn't sure how to really wow new users without overwhelming them. I figured that taking it step by step with short, clear episodes covering special topics would be a good start. >> >> >> Really nice, agree that the intro is the least exciting. >> >> But even starting with agendas in the next one, the more interesting things >> can be shown. >> >> Great job! >> >> So with the software you use, you can go and insert/delete/edit voice into the >> presentation once it's complete, or if you want to change the wording in one >> part, do you have to record the whole thing over again? I assume you can change >> it, but don't know if the Linux tool has that capability. >> >> >> -Richard >> >> On Sep 23, 2010, at 6:47 PM, Charles Cave wrote: >> >> Richard Moreland ncogni.to> writes: >> I think it would be helpful to create a series of screencasts to >> demonstrate Org-mode. >> >> Great idea! I would he happy to record a couple of screencasts >> based on tutorials I have written. Currently I am preparing >> a tutorial on date trees and capturing notes to a journal. >> >> I am a Windows user and a screencast tool I use is >> http://www.screenr.com - from Articulate. >> This allows screencasts up to 5 minutes to be recorded >> then hosted on their website. >> >> Charles >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode -- Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys. 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