From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Tutorials Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 09:09:08 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7QtU-0007br-DD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:09:20 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7QtT-0007bf-Aq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:09:19 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I7QtT-0007bc-5O for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:09:19 -0400 Received: from korteweg.uva.nl ([146.50.98.70]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I7QtS-0000R3-NX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:09:18 -0400 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: org-mode Hi, today I have a request/proposal to make. If you look around of the web and search for "emacs" and "org-mode", you will see that the two documents that had the biggest impact in getting new users interested in Org-mode are - David O'Toole's Tutorial of basic structure and TODO lists http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/OrgTutorial.html - Charles Cave's writeup about Org-mode and GTD at http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgmode.html The impact of these two document has been huge, much more than the manual or my (admittedly quite boring) web page. This is why I tink it would be great to have more tutorials. There are several areas where a step-by-step tutorial, with lots of screen shots in the way David wrote his could be easily made. If you have been thinking about a way to give a contribution back to Org-mode (and I know there are people who did), this might be a way to do this without having to be a Lisp programmer. Areas I can think of, which could be well describe with a tutorial with screen shots are: - Table editor basics - Formulas in tables - Hyperlinks - Setting and using Tags - Properties and column view - Timestamps and project planning - How you, personally, use Org-mode for plannig and monitoring your tasks (we could have *many* of those). The summer break is near, and you cannot sit on the beach for ever :-) - Carsten