From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: org-mode for note taking Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:57:38 +0530 Message-ID: <871ug45zbp.fsf@gmail.com> References: <21629ace-651b-4d95-8909-529cf2b5f761@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352359546 6353 80.91.229.3 (8 Nov 2012 07:25:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 07:25:46 +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 08:25:55 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 1TWMUr-00080U-G5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:25:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44621 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWMUi-0001qU-B7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:25:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39591) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWMUc-0001pG-3s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:25:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWMUX-0006cd-Sh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:25:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:40332) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWMUX-0006cX-L6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:25:33 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pb0-f41.google.com with SMTP id rq2so1939926pbb.0 for ; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:25:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=Q0zEuZA2fVySaLzCT09K0pCR6eQoEhajz9sj3kLAa9Y=; b=vmpdXRjH4QAMOn/c9a9yq032m0j2FwQj6s+VGLLj4sv817FKvmVVN2WLTrhteJk57a JqNKVtHJA6Wf3KlqWZXfx+h48Sr2JxQ/rO1/2Rs/+f/rlLlt2y5BygtBD7dAZieure4V tL6WXFb5WFZeFqSLCjx5lSX5X7mYPeziF0FNMVnTfv4CCq8wpHkuh0+TkomhMRlJnzN1 EbANGBObZySG0WQCVSGcPg93JPhUf6WYy505IPOFUtIK1YMTEIpSwkdyrDsjOvX66GVO 8mTLRRur8EYLWbJQk+LXUbUQpwnfYf3FLFgYNv5xius8ubhHuYpuko1MqjS+ga1NokF1 upiQ== Original-Received: by 10.68.227.1 with SMTP id rw1mr21276964pbc.57.1352359532615; Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:25:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from debian-6.05 ([101.63.174.73]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id oj1sm15502914pbb.19.2012.11.07.23.25.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:25:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <21629ace-651b-4d95-8909-529cf2b5f761@googlegroups.com> (houkensjtu@gmail.com's message of "Wed, 7 Nov 2012 23:01:18 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.160.41 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:87582 Archived-At: There is a separate group for Orgmode users: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/ Put forward your proposal there and see what the community has to say. > 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! > --