As much as I like org-mode (and I like it so much that I don’t see myself changing systems unless someone comes along and refines the hell out of org-mode under a new name), I’ve wished for more from it. Perhaps I ought to just get to work learning more emacs, but some trivial inconveniences and vague desires I’ve encountered so far:
I’ve not been able to get the Android app working. Ever. Maybe if I go back and put 40 more minutes into getting it to work.
I’d love to work with a high-contrast, white-on-black background. I’ve still not learned how to do this, even with a fair bit of looking
If I could switch to a full-screen (not just maximized, but distraction-free, maximum visibility full-screen) that would be fantastic.
I sync my org-file (yeah, I only use one, and it’s huge) with Dropbox. Don’t have to worry about losing it if anything goes dead. But I really just wish that Evernote did all the same stuff. Because Evernote has a slick look, and a pretty great Android app. And I’d be willing to pay money for such a slick implementation of my huge org-file.
I use Astrid as a todo-manager. It’s not a bad system (even though I’ve had some obnoxious database corruption issues every month or so), but what I’d really like is a similar system (and there are so many todo managers out there that have the same features, and they’re always adding more) that could just read the TODOs out of my org-file and append the appropriate tags, etc. I could see myself someday knowing enough emacs lisp to figure this out on the org-mode end, but right now I don’t plan on learning enough programming to work this out as a supplementary app, and it looks far, far simpler to just offer a bounty on this kind of thing that someone else can program.
Oh, yes. I do Dropbox syncing, too (this is the other good thing about org-mode: plain text files). And there might be some truth in the statement that while org-mode is excellent for a single file, things start to be less seamless when it comes to more of them… inter-file links don’t seem to be that reliable, for example. Is this the reason for your One Big Org File?
For white on black, it’s just (setq default-frame-alist ’((background-color . “black”) (foreground-color . “white”))) in your .emacs.
Actually, it’s kind of typical lesswrong that I started off with a comment popularizing org-mode, but ended up changing my mind about it (well… kind of), the newest experiments include Notational Velocity (they seem to be good at the global search stuff org-mode is lacking, but not so nice indented lists locally), and also this system:
which includes paper notebooks, maps of your thoughts and similar fancy stuff, but I haven’t yet finished reading it (it’s long and not exactly the most organized stuff I’ve ever read… but it has good ideas.)
For links, I switched to the org-id module and a unique ID for any new links. It works as long as the file containing the target headline is in the same directory as the file containing the link.
As much as I like org-mode (and I like it so much that I don’t see myself changing systems unless someone comes along and refines the hell out of org-mode under a new name), I’ve wished for more from it. Perhaps I ought to just get to work learning more emacs, but some trivial inconveniences and vague desires I’ve encountered so far:
I’ve not been able to get the Android app working. Ever. Maybe if I go back and put 40 more minutes into getting it to work.
I’d love to work with a high-contrast, white-on-black background. I’ve still not learned how to do this, even with a fair bit of looking
If I could switch to a full-screen (not just maximized, but distraction-free, maximum visibility full-screen) that would be fantastic.
I sync my org-file (yeah, I only use one, and it’s huge) with Dropbox. Don’t have to worry about losing it if anything goes dead. But I really just wish that Evernote did all the same stuff. Because Evernote has a slick look, and a pretty great Android app. And I’d be willing to pay money for such a slick implementation of my huge org-file.
I use Astrid as a todo-manager. It’s not a bad system (even though I’ve had some obnoxious database corruption issues every month or so), but what I’d really like is a similar system (and there are so many todo managers out there that have the same features, and they’re always adding more) that could just read the TODOs out of my org-file and append the appropriate tags, etc. I could see myself someday knowing enough emacs lisp to figure this out on the org-mode end, but right now I don’t plan on learning enough programming to work this out as a supplementary app, and it looks far, far simpler to just offer a bounty on this kind of thing that someone else can program.
Oh, yes. I do Dropbox syncing, too (this is the other good thing about org-mode: plain text files). And there might be some truth in the statement that while org-mode is excellent for a single file, things start to be less seamless when it comes to more of them… inter-file links don’t seem to be that reliable, for example. Is this the reason for your One Big Org File?
For white on black, it’s just (setq default-frame-alist ’((background-color . “black”) (foreground-color . “white”))) in your .emacs.
Actually, it’s kind of typical lesswrong that I started off with a comment popularizing org-mode, but ended up changing my mind about it (well… kind of), the newest experiments include Notational Velocity (they seem to be good at the global search stuff org-mode is lacking, but not so nice indented lists locally), and also this system:
http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/nb/book.pdf
which includes paper notebooks, maps of your thoughts and similar fancy stuff, but I haven’t yet finished reading it (it’s long and not exactly the most organized stuff I’ve ever read… but it has good ideas.)
For links, I switched to the org-id module and a unique ID for any new links. It works as long as the file containing the target headline is in the same directory as the file containing the link.