From: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>
To: Texas Cyberthal <texas.cyberthal@gmail.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
"Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: org-startup-truncated default should be nil [legibility 2/6]
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 18:37:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJf-WoTqZbkJAUr_BMKmct_O_V6CPmjGBXGzYfRBt0JW6OoN_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMUm4910XuDW+Oq3up3iJs0X-GKEfP6Dq9K+2E7UN0wNVndShw@mail.gmail.com>
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Greetings,
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 5:33 PM Texas Cyberthal <texas.cyberthal@gmail.com>
wrote:
> No, that isn't what I'm saying. I'm quite happy with Emacs, especially
> Spacemacs. However, I had a much harder adoption experience than
> necessary, and I find that the barriers to entry are preventing
> normie-noobs from choosing Org as a PIM. So I intend to fix that.
>
I'm not sure this is on-topic, but... what about creating a separate
tutorial just org-mode?
The possibilities seem endless but, for example, this could
* provide instruction for different primary use cases (for me:
note-taking, prose, agenda, habit, babel, and literature)
* mention especially important customizations for the given usage
* offer "express setup" buttons to instantly apply settings from a sample
configuration.
Finally, this could be added into the Emacs splash-screen alongside the
general tutorial.
I like the idea of promoting org-mode to people using Emacs for the first
time and I like the idea of sensible defaults, especially that reduce
frustrations for users new to the GNU tool-chain That said, org-mode is
lots of things to lots of people, even notwithstanding the reticence to
break things for people who've had them working the way the like for
decades. I think this is fundamentally an education problem. But even
if that's wrong, I think we should look closely at education as a solution.
--
*Corwin*
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-07 0:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-06 2:33 org-startup-truncated default should be nil [legibility 2/6] Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 6:55 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 7:15 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-06 9:46 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 10:16 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-06 10:51 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 11:17 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-06 12:09 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 12:40 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-06 21:21 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 21:38 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-06 23:33 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-07 0:37 ` Corwin Brust [this message]
2020-02-07 1:06 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-07 4:27 ` Texas Cyberthal
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2020-02-04 21:36 Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-04 23:26 ` Samuel Wales
2020-02-05 2:43 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-05 3:49 ` Samuel Wales
2020-02-05 4:02 ` Samuel Wales
2020-02-05 4:09 ` Samuel Wales
2020-02-05 15:30 ` Adam Porter
2020-02-04 4:08 Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-04 7:05 ` Adam Porter
2020-02-10 7:00 ` Bastien
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