From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Diep Pham Van Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: org-mode for note taking Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 14:19:29 +0700 Message-ID: <20121108071929.GA1070@archbox-elite> References: <21629ace-651b-4d95-8909-529cf2b5f761@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352359189 3501 80.91.229.3 (8 Nov 2012 07:19:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 07:19:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: houkensjtu Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 08 08:19:59 2012 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 1TWMP2-0003Rt-Q6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:19:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42769 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWMOt-0000TW-NS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:19:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45886) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWMOn-0000Lp-1S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:19:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWMOm-0004uz-3n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:19:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-da0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41]:35631) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWMOl-0004tZ-To for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:19:36 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-da0-f41.google.com with SMTP id i14so1126716dad.0 for ; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:19:33 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent :x-gm-message-state; bh=74EQtyrD+ghFUJqsQDQFwwVZKPVL7QeFvVFhqqgAnLg=; b=FyiEaeF/kY1oQZu1Rd99XQ1MqeecmPR/X+ZmfwQRki7KHw7OjHyqzfc3iX0yydkpye kgZarzvr/izGLvuB5B3djT9ax5wO7+V6YLD374l6+ndvWRqnv8sX70F2tpse2ok+3iRK VXIc+auJmNQAeRKv+8QWSd1rMgcrdzZalpUAwib6lUmbJHTmsa+ENOazij1GfsoYbcAW VAH2xm9Y0p72HFrY64XzCNXVA1bSMVaGqDg2YGrcukL/ysmdiH85HZaYWrKoyENKHA5V J3MYX8pC978+gdFzZSNYmnWjxewnlBtkWl2SprYxOTidbvb74sBaMs8xsl98P1do372o pYGg== Original-Received: by 10.68.135.42 with SMTP id pp10mr21585905pbb.159.1352359173716; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:19:33 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost ([113.160.45.182]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id mn5sm15496251pbc.12.2012.11.07.23.19.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:19:33 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <21629ace-651b-4d95-8909-529cf2b5f761@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnMlKHoH2XrdTJmsZsummd5qXabaEutoQc4vibeFdeM6BOommAgeE9Av+SMlxVrVld6slkt X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.210.41 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:87581 Archived-At: 1. I don't know Evernote's file format, but can you use it without Evernote? 2. You can orgnize your notes into tree and subtree, you can use tags. I think you do not know about org-mode filter capability. 3. Yes, you can, just read the manual. On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 11:01:18PM -0800, houkensjtu wrote: > Hi emacser! > I have been using debian and emacs for about one year. After I get used to the command line and basic usage of linux system, I decided to learn more deeper in linux. During my study, I found it's hard for me to remember every technical detail about all the things I learned--I need to take notes. > > Evernote is popular but it's not supported on linux(also it's proprietary). > > Until I found a youtube video talking about org-mode+github. In this way, basically one can write notes by org-mode, and push it to github, which is almost the same thing evernote does. > > However I should say, taking note in org-mode is just not comfortable. I considered why it makes me uncomfortable and here is some of them: > 1. I am not familiar with taking notes in plain text file. Usually plain text file means hard to navigate, hard to read, ugly structure, to me. Emacs could handle org file quite well, but WITHOUT emacs, on windows pc, on mobile device, plain txt is just disaster. > 2. I don't know how organize all my contents when it become more and more. With a hand writing notebook, I have physical "pages", in Microsoft Word, I also have virtual "pages". In org-mode org file, I don't. It's like my org file is a endless roll of toilet paper(forgive me for being rude)! And I think it's the main reason makes me feels so uncomfortable to handle org file. > 3. Hard to import pictures, web pages...into org file.(In fact I don't know how). > > Is there any tips or suggestion to overcome these uncomfortable feeling? > Thx in advance! -- PHAM Van Diep imeo@favadi.com - diepphamvan@vccorp.vn www.favadi.com - (+84) 984 339 841 System Administrator, Adtech, VCCorp, VN -- There are 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who don't.