From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The statement on what is orgmode.
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:54:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obi7dye0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20121206032633.GA12314@panahar
Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:
>> One remedy, to this, and a thing I think would be nice in any case,
>> would be if keywords in the presenting sentence would link to (worg?)
>> feature pages.
>
> Another possibility would be to make the title just say "Org mode".
>
> And the first headline, before "Download and install", be something
> like the following:
>
> * Org mode is useful for
> ** Organising projects
> ** Maintaining TODO lists and calendars
> ** Keeping notes
> ** Creating high quality formatted documents
> ** Literate programming
>
> Each of the above could then be linked to relevant pages of the manual
> or worg.
I like this -- it seems like the best crash-landing strategy for
new users is to give them a single comforting phrase to look at (I liked
the old "your life in plain text"), and then a concise list of things
that org does, like the above.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-06 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-05 22:28 The statement on what is orgmode Vikas Rawal
2012-12-06 1:21 ` Rasmus
2012-12-06 3:26 ` Vikas Rawal
2012-12-06 14:54 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2012-12-06 15:03 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-06 15:25 ` Brian van den Broek
2012-12-06 22:00 ` Axel E. Retif
2012-12-07 0:18 ` David Rogers
2012-12-07 0:44 ` Axel E. Retif
2012-12-07 0:53 ` Vikas Rawal
2012-12-07 2:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-12-13 0:11 ` Bastien
2012-12-06 23:04 ` Vikas Rawal
2012-12-06 23:17 ` Eric Schulte
2012-12-06 23:56 ` Vikas Rawal
2012-12-07 0:07 ` Thomas S. Dye
2012-12-07 1:00 ` Vikas Rawal
2012-12-07 2:38 ` brian powell
2012-12-07 8:01 ` Alan Schmitt
2012-12-07 14:38 ` Rasmus
2012-12-07 15:18 ` Brett Viren
2012-12-07 8:50 ` David Rogers
2012-12-07 18:44 ` What can *not* be done with Org-mode yet (was: The statement on what is orgmode.) Karl Voit
2012-12-07 19:40 ` [OFFTOPIC] The statement on what is orgmode Eric Schulte
2012-12-07 20:14 ` Rasmus
2012-12-07 19:46 ` Ivan Andrus
2012-12-07 22:17 ` Vikas Rawal
2012-12-09 8:32 ` David Rogers
2012-12-08 5:19 ` James Harkins
2012-12-12 23:52 ` Vikas Rawal
2012-12-13 0:01 ` Bastien
2012-12-21 18:10 ` Thomas S. Dye
2012-12-23 11:56 ` Bastien
2012-12-07 18:34 ` Karl Voit
2012-12-13 0:13 ` Bastien
2012-12-13 0:10 ` Bastien
2012-12-06 8:40 ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-12-06 9:10 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-06 12:26 ` Vikas Rawal
2012-12-06 13:43 ` Marco
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