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From: Jeremie Juste <jeremiejuste@gmail.com>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: example paper written in org completely
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 11:58:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yyab2fw.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8c220v9.fsf@gmail.com> (Tim Cross's message of "Sat, 19 Jun 2021 09:26:02 +1000")

Hello,

The thread is going far from the original post, and I'm pushing it
further. Eric, sorry for that.

But this is an interesting topic so just to have some more thoughts on this I'm jumping
in. Org-mode has enhanced my organizational skills and I have still a
lot to learn here. To continue this conversation, we need a philosopher
here one I'm far from being one, so please take my comments lightly.

On Saturday, 19 Jun 2021 at 09:26, Tim Cross wrote:
> A major pitfall with todo lists and priorities is that we fail to make
> the distinction between important and urgent tasks. What ends up
> happening is that all our time gets consumed by urgent tasks and we
> never get time to address important tasks. Unfortunately, it is the
> important tasks which, once completed, will reduce the number or time
> taken to deal with urgent tasks - we end up being more reactive and
> proactive.

First how do we make the distinction between urgent and important tasks?
Many tasks are important because they are urgent but who and what
defines their urgency?

>
> In our case, we all hated having to update/edit the course guides in MS
> Office because it was painful and time consuming, but urgent. However,
> nobody belt they had the time to fix matters, despite us all agreeing it
> was important.

This reminds me of the Aesop fable the [1] Mice in Council, which pushes the
importance part to the extreme.

[1]: https://aesopsfables.org/F184_The-Mice-in-Council.html.

A way to solve this might be identify some heroes and compensate them for
doing their job. Too many heroes never have their inner calling. 

>
> What would have been really great is if we had more Emacs users. We
You are in good company here.

> could then just have used org mode for the base format and even less
> work would have been required to convert from MS Office, but that will
> never happen. On the up side, I do see more and more ideas originally
> germinated in an Emacs environment finding there way into other tool
> chains, so perhaps the environments of the future won't suck quite as
> much as they might if MS Office had been the only source for
> inspiration! As the Beta v VHS war demonstrated, great technology is not
> enough, you also need to factor in marketing and advertising budgets of
> the competition!

[2] Monday.com raised $574 Million, in an IPO this month.  Many times
I'm forced to use pictures as replacement for
table and I am still struggling to add more DONE states there.

[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/monday-com-prices-u-s-ipo-above-range-at-155-a-share

I suspect that it would be difficult to compete with a front-end with
org-mode at the back, but again, I'm telling more than I know.

Best regards,
-- 
Jeremie Juste


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-19  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-17 12:06 example paper written in org completely Eric S Fraga
2021-06-17 12:51 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-06-17 13:38 ` Greg Minshall
2021-06-17 15:06   ` Eric S Fraga
2021-06-17 15:11   ` Eric S Fraga
2021-06-17 16:33   ` Uwe Brauer
2021-06-17 16:40     ` Eric S Fraga
2021-06-17 19:54       ` Uwe Brauer
2021-06-18  8:02         ` Eric S Fraga
2021-06-18 11:55           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-06-18 12:46             ` Eric S Fraga
2021-06-18 14:38               ` [longlines] (was: example paper written in org completely) Uwe Brauer
2021-06-18 15:00                 ` John Kitchin
2021-06-18 15:19                   ` Bruce D'Arcus
2021-06-18 16:30                     ` [longlines] Uwe Brauer
2021-06-24 22:09                       ` [longlines] Haider Rizvi
2021-06-18 16:38                     ` [longlines] Uwe Brauer
2021-06-18 15:23                 ` [longlines] Eric S Fraga
2021-06-18 23:26             ` example paper written in org completely Tim Cross
2021-06-19  9:58               ` Jeremie Juste [this message]
2021-06-19 13:12                 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-06-19 15:58                 ` Samuel Banya
2021-06-17 14:40 ` Samuel Banya
2021-06-17 16:31 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-17 16:42   ` Eric S Fraga
2021-06-17 17:04     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-17 17:19       ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-18  8:04         ` Eric S Fraga
2021-06-18 13:45           ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-18 23:02             ` Tim Cross
2021-06-19  0:21               ` Christopher Dimech

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