From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: records-mode ? Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:08:04 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <68035d7b-9b0c-49f6-9728-a764aa9381b0@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <200802190200.m1J202tc009788@localhost.localdomain> <8763wkoz7e.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <200802210200.m1L20Pc6004774@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203831677 18624 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2008 05:41:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:41:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 24 06:41:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JT9cJ-0003zE-DN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:41:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JT9bn-0007Eq-Jf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:41:07 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.4.51 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1203829685 30592 127.0.0.1 (24 Feb 2008 05:08:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:08:05 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.4.51; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070508 Iceweasel/2.0.0.4 (Debian-2.0.0.4-0etch1), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156440 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51811 Archived-At: On Feb 22, 5:35 am, Bastien Guerry wrote: > Xavier Maillard writes: > > I always feel dumb and lost when trying to do simple things. For > > example, searching in Org makes me sick. > > What exactly makes you sick? Maybe we can improve this. > My own take on why some people may complain about org-mode: Org mode is many things... * A tree-structurer The outlining ability * A brainstormer export-as-mind-map * A GTD framework which includes *** a todo list manager *** a time-tracker *** a (day) planner *** project-manager Unfortunately in the last case (GTD) Ive been a dismal failure and kind of given up on it. I dont think this is because some feature -- search -- or whatever 'makes me sick' nor even because of 'too many features' The problem as I see it is that GTD is such a large task (Xavier himself has said so http://www.brool.com/?p=82 ) that even the fairly large and extensive org documentation is not enough to help grapple with it.