From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org Tutorials need more structure
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 18:35:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ABC61DD-96A6-410A-AE49-E3B2288B2284@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5246E70E.7000705@verizon.net>
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On 28.9.2013, at 16:26, Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi Carsten,
>
> On 9/28/2013 2:11 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> today I looked at our tutorial page at
>>
>>
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/index.html
>>
>>
>> and came away with the feeling that that this page has become
>> somewhat useless for people who are really new to Org.
>>
> - I disagree. Your Google talk was just right - for me. It was my first exposure to Org Mode.
Well, I am glad to hear that it still does its work.
>>
>> Can we have a discussion here on how this path should look like?
>> When you came to Org-mode as a newby, what were the three resources
>> that really made an impression on by being accessible and
>> providing feel and promise for digging deeper?
>>
> About three years ago I stumbled across Org Mode when I was searching Emacs in general. (I already was familiar with Emacs, but only to "fool around".)
> After viewing the Google talk, I specifically searched Org Mode. The three resources that made an impression:
> - the general tutorials, starting with David O'Toole's,
> - the Compact Guide with the Further Readings, (I did not look at the ones in the Org Manual) since this gave me a sense of how Org is and can be used, and
> - the mailing list, which was the one resource that has made the greatest impression on me from the beginning. It has been and is my best resource; it provides the greatest exposure to Org Mode both as to its uses and sense of the Org community.
Thank you for your input to this discussion.
- Carsten
> - Thank you Carsten, Bastien and all the rest if you for Org Mode.
>
> Charlie Millar
>
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-28 6:11 Org Tutorials need more structure Carsten Dominik
2013-09-28 7:22 ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2013-09-28 8:37 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-28 10:30 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-09-28 11:59 ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2013-09-28 12:36 ` Eric Schulte
2013-09-28 13:10 ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2013-09-28 16:02 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-09-28 17:19 ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2013-10-01 7:59 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-10-01 20:34 ` David Rogers
2013-10-01 21:00 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-28 8:48 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-28 10:09 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-28 14:26 ` Charles Millar
2013-09-28 16:35 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2013-09-28 17:14 ` Ian Barton
2013-09-28 17:43 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-28 17:48 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-28 19:06 ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
2013-09-28 19:52 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-09-28 20:50 ` Charles Millar
2013-09-28 21:31 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-28 21:52 ` John Hendy
2013-09-28 23:14 ` Charles Millar
2013-09-28 23:29 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-09-29 0:29 ` John Hendy
2013-09-29 7:28 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-09-30 8:04 ` Alan Schmitt
2013-09-30 17:01 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-09-30 18:36 ` Peter Neilson
2013-09-30 21:07 ` Eduardo Ochs
2013-10-01 8:52 ` Michael Brand
2013-10-01 5:34 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-10-01 8:55 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-10-01 12:40 ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2013-09-30 17:56 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-09-29 8:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-09-29 15:31 ` Matt Price
2013-09-30 7:25 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-01 14:08 ` William Denton
2013-10-02 1:10 ` M
2013-10-02 18:06 ` Alan E. Davis
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2013-09-29 16:43 Rustom Mody
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