From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eddward DeVilla" Subject: RE: Another GTD question. Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:39:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <76f7cd71190bcff68e57e71d163fe49f@science.uva.nl> <3c12eb8d0610041011g22dda93ahf42608e6482f8c77@mail.gmail.com> <453A8918.4090405@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GbRNi-0006V2-0E for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:40:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GbRNg-0006Uq-MM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:40:01 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GbRNg-0006Un-A1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:40:00 -0400 Received: from [66.249.92.174] (helo=ug-out-1314.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GbRNg-0007Bx-8G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:40:00 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 36so1093643uga for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:39:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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: emacs-orgmode On 10/21/06, Christopher Kuettner wrote: > Aside from that... > > What is the basic design model for org-mode? What is org supposed to > be? Where it is headed? I thought I got an outliner with > dates-capabilities. No it's almost a full fledged publishing platform... > > I think you did a terrific job so far. Maybe you have to make some > fundamental decisions here... Those are some interesting questions. I certainly can't answer any of them, but I don't know one aspect of Org that I hope is maintained. It's really flexible. Kind of like perl. It has a lot of little nifty features that you can use to manage and organize information (to tasks, or whatever) and use can use any subset you want. You can learn it incrementally. (...as I have. It sound popular but I haven't even touched the publishing...) None of the features really require the use of any other feature except maybe agenda and agenda is just a flexible interface for gathering the information marked and managed by the other features. (Dates, tags, Todo state...) Yet all of the features work well together. There's more that one way to do most things. I don't really understand GTD, elisp or project management that I would try to guess a good direction for Org-mode, but I do hope it is able to maintain a design where you can pick and choose the features and assemble them as they suit you instead of trying to impose a framework or style. And yes, Carsten and company of done an excellent job. For all I've pestered him and the list, I don't say that enough. I just picked org-mode because I was looking for a replacement an orphaned outliner that I depended on. Org turned out to be better in many ways and has since surpassed it in all ways. It's changed how I manage list, projects, todo and information in general. I'm actually excited to see how it will grow. You've done great.