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From: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Cc: levinejames@me.com
Subject: Re: would take more than an org-mode strip-down.
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:16:52 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ+TeofxSjMszgJgLJS3jkA420s4KQO9CuweRFQ+hDB=HAbckQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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Hi James.

If you do not grok text its unlikely you will appreciate a text editor.
emacs is not just a text editor its an exceptionally powerful text editor --
a power which is likely to alienate you even more.
So the best suggestion to someone who wishes to get into orgmode but finds
text (and text editors) unpleasant is to give up on orgmode, just dig into
emacs' simpler uses for a while and when a little more comfortable (with
emacs) try org again. Hopefully then your questions will be more focused to
this list and the answers will be more useful to you.

That said, there is some merit in (some of) what you say.
org is so many different things at the same time that for a noob to find
one's way through the documentation to make his usecase work with minimum
pain seems to be unnecessarily hard.


The beginner's customization guide:
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-configs/org-customization-guide.html
is of course a starting point.

But I wonder if it would be possible to structure it into something like
this outline so that different beginners could start at different places?

* Brainstorming-n-outlining
  TAB and the basic structure navigation and editing features
* Exporting and Publishing
*** html export
*** Odt export
*** Web publishing
*** Latex publishing
*** Presentations
***** Lightweight options
  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-configs/org-customization-guide.html
***** Beamer
* Babel
*** For programming
*** For teaching programming
*** For doing science (R)
*** For scientific publishing (R+Latex)
* Time/project mgmt (GTD)
*** Agenda
*** Time tracking
*** capture-archive
*** Journalling
*** org-habit
* Tables and spreadsheets
* Integration with other emacs uses
*** gnus
*** bbdb/ org-contacts
*** firefox (org-protocol)
*** graphics (R, ditaa...)

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             reply	other threads:[~2011-09-29  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-29  7:46 Rustom Mody [this message]
2011-09-29  7:57 ` would take more than an org-mode strip-down Rustom Mody
2011-09-29  8:01 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-10-04  6:33   ` Rustom Mody
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-27 17:04 James Levine
2011-09-28  9:28 ` Jude DaShiell
2011-09-28  9:39 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-09-28 13:27 ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-28 14:18 ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-28 14:47   ` James Levine
2011-09-28 14:58     ` Jude DaShiell
2011-09-28 15:33     ` Russell Adams
2011-09-28 18:34     ` Rasmus
2011-09-28 14:54   ` James Levine
2011-09-30  6:00 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-09-30  9:38   ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-30 16:59   ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-10-04  0:13   ` suvayu ali
2011-10-03 20:44 ` Allen S. Rout
2011-10-04 13:28   ` Carson Chittom

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