From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eddward DeVilla" Subject: Re: Org-mode versus Taskpaper - now for real Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:52:41 -0500 Message-ID: References: <0277B507-1486-4172-B1C6-1B73B84148DD@science.uva.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgin1-0001uH-Ai for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:52:47 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgimz-0001u2-Bp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:52:46 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgimz-0001tz-73 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:52:45 -0400 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.187]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jgimy-00050S-P4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:52:45 -0400 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id a20so706384tia.10 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:52:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <0277B507-1486-4172-B1C6-1B73B84148DD@science.uva.nl> 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: Carsten Dominik Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist To be honest, if I were looking for an outliner today as I was when I found org-mode, I might have been scared off. Org-mode has gotten very big. But as you said, the easy things are easy. There are a great many feature in org-mode that I have not used nor have I had time to learn to use. They have had no negative impact on me. For the most part, I've found the features I don't use can be safely ignored and the ones I am using require very little setup. I guess the best way to address this problem might be to document up front that org-mode uses a simple, readable, text only format and that all of the features can be used independently of each other but that they do interact well together. (It's been a while since I've scanned the manual, so maybe that's already in the intro.) I guess we could put together a tutorial of using org-mode as just a friendly listing, outliner without using any of the other features to show org-mode can scale up to Taskpaper's level of simplicity. I'd have a hard time not adding a table though. Edd