Re: Org Mode Research

[Ted Wiles <theodore.wiles@gmail.com>]

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Thanks all!

For context, I just started implementing org-mode workplanning at my job
(personal user since 2007) and it's increased my productivity 10x. As I
manage others I was curious about hearing about how others use org-mode in
a team setting. While I was at it, I thought that it would be helpful and
interesting to get a gut-check on the basic idea I was thinking of
implementing to collaborate with my team.

Some preliminary findings of interest:

- Tags are unpopular, only 56% of people use them. Especially surprising as
70% use source-code blocks.
- Largest barrier to further org mode usage is a lack of emacs expertise.
Not really a surprise here.
- 75% of people put their org-mode files under git version control.
- We are all big promoters of using org-mode with the people we work with,
and highly skeptical of their ability and desire to realize these benefits
:)
- mobile and calendar integration have come up as major pains multiple
times in free responses

I am hoping to condense findings into a pithy summary and post on github
(or worg, although I've never figured out how to do that easily) so that
everyone can see.

I also think the term "market research" significantly overestimates my
ability / desire to execute on this :) I get the concern on GPL vs.
non-GPL, I also really like org mode as it fundamentally gives me control
over my own data, but given where this is right now (a google forms survey)
I think it's kind of a moot discussion.

And yes, I know that the survey isn't very good, and that there are typos,
and that certain things could have been asked better! I have made some
revisions incorporating some of these comments.

Thanks again,
Ted



On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> On Sat, Jan 07 2017, Ted Wiles wrote:
>
> > Org Moders,
> >
> > I'm doing some research on org mode usage and would love to hear your
> perspective. Here's the
> > survey link:
> >
> > https://goo.gl/forms/9I0uL3Er2TuEszfH3
> >
> > If I get enough responses, I'll be happy to post the results online for
> all to see!
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Ted
>
> I would want to see much more information about the motive and people
> behind the Survey before I would take part. Sorry.
>

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