From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rustom Mody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are Emacs best uses? Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 20:29:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <073b5d18-4111-4bbd-8bea-d1c1e01cf571@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376364617 23527 80.91.229.3 (13 Aug 2013 03:30:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 03:30:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 13 05:30:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V95JK-0006WK-AI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 05:30:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57686 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V95JJ-0001y6-Eq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 23:30:17 -0400 X-Received: by 10.224.171.72 with SMTP id g8mr2566067qaz.7.1376364558088; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 20:29:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.30.9 with SMTP id o9mr103166igh.11.1376364558045; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 20:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!f7no2140206qan.0!news-out.google.com!he10ni1415qab.0!nntp.google.com!fx3no2243189qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.21.109; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.21.109 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 03:29:18 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200563 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92830 Archived-At: On Monday, August 12, 2013 10:35:18 PM UTC+5:30, Jorge wrote: >=20 > What is Emacs really good for? Is it a good personal information manager= ? > Can you manage your information (todo, grocery list, etc.) and sync with = a > smartphone? This collection of questions suggests that you look at orgmode http://orgmo= de.org/ which is really suited to exactly this kind of activity.=20 After youve looked around and played with it for a day or two, ask this on = the org mailing list -- preferably in more specific form. Org-mode is proba= bly the single biggest killer-app in emacs-land today; its certainly making= more converts of people who would otherwise run miles from anything emacs-= ish and has even spawned a vi clone -- vimorganizer > If you can't sync with a smartphone, how do you manage the > grocery list? Lookup mobileorg=20 And see http://swaroopch.com/2013/01/16/orgmode/