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From: William Denton <wtd@pobox.com>
To: emacs-orgmode list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org Tutorials need more structure
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 10:08:56 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1310011001090.14264@shell.miskatonic.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EF119E90-532F-4890-991C-0C55691A898E@gmail.com>

On 28 September 2013, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> Can we have a discussion here on how this path should look like?
> When you came to Org-mode as a newby, what were the three resources
> that really made an impression on by being accessible and
> providing feel and promise for digging deeper?

I'm fairly new to Org; I started just when it moved to version 8.  I'd 
been using outline mode or Markdown for notes and that was good enough for 
the way I managed my tasks, but what drew me over was:

- the compact guide and Organize Your Life in Plain Text, which showed how 
much more Org does than to-do lists
- seeing how I could embed code in a document with Babel, and view images 
inside Emacs
- seeing how I could export to Latex but still make everything look the 
way I like by including my usual header commands

The more I began to use Org for my own notes and research, and saw how 
other people managed their work in it, the more I saw in Org and the more 
I'd try.  (Talks like John Kitchin's sealed the deal.)

I'm grateful to everyone that's helped with the documentation or posted 
snippets on blogs or Stack Overflow ... there are lots of times when I'm 
not sure how to get something working but find a perfect example 
somewhere.

Bill
-- 
William Denton
Toronto, Canada
http://www.miskatonic.org/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-01 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-28  6:11 Org Tutorials need more structure Carsten Dominik
2013-09-28  7:22 ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2013-09-28  8:37   ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-28 10:30   ` Suvayu Ali
2013-09-28 11:59     ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2013-09-28 12:36       ` Eric Schulte
2013-09-28 13:10         ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2013-09-28 16:02       ` Suvayu Ali
2013-09-28 17:19         ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2013-10-01  7:59       ` Eric S Fraga
2013-10-01 20:34     ` David Rogers
2013-10-01 21:00       ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-28  8:48 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-28 10:09   ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-28 14:26 ` Charles Millar
2013-09-28 16:35   ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-28 17:14 ` Ian Barton
2013-09-28 17:43   ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-28 17:48     ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-28 19:06 ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
2013-09-28 19:52 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-09-28 20:50   ` Charles Millar
2013-09-28 21:31     ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-28 21:52       ` John Hendy
2013-09-28 23:14         ` Charles Millar
2013-09-28 23:29         ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-09-29  0:29           ` John Hendy
2013-09-29  7:28             ` Suvayu Ali
2013-09-30  8:04               ` Alan Schmitt
2013-09-30 17:01                 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-09-30 18:36                   ` Peter Neilson
2013-09-30 21:07                     ` Eduardo Ochs
2013-10-01  8:52                       ` Michael Brand
2013-10-01  5:34                   ` Suvayu Ali
2013-10-01  8:55                     ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-10-01 12:40                       ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2013-09-30 17:56               ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-09-29  8:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-09-29 15:31   ` Matt Price
2013-09-30  7:25     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-01 14:08 ` William Denton [this message]
2013-10-02  1:10 ` M
2013-10-02 18:06   ` Alan E. Davis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-09-29 16:43 Rustom Mody

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