From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Compare Note Taking Apps and Emacs. Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2023 02:35:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87sf9ohex6.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19513"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ORaod7/1dLRB1pFa4cOovt0CS4c= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 16 14:15:15 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qL0eg-0004sG-Qz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2023 14:15:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qL0eR-0003kA-5R; Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:14:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qKpjG-0008AF-MH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2023 20:35:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qKpjF-0008A2-1H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2023 20:35:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qKpjA-0008BT-A5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2023 02:35:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:14:57 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:144282 Archived-At: Hongyi Zhao wrote: > I noticed this website given a tools list to Compare Note > Taking Apps, but Emacs is not listed in them. I wonder if > Emacs is suitable for this kind of work, or if it is > outdated compared to these modern tools. There was a popular application for Windows (sounds more like MacOS but I think it was Windows), this application gained some fame and for some time there wasn't, maybe still isn't a FOSS Unix equivalent up to strength really up there to compete, this despite the seemingly trivial task of putting up notes. But for us that are used to using text files in an editor for everything, I guess Emacs is number one for taking notes as well. Heh, maybe we should fabricate such websites comparing tools for different things, and then Emacs always come number one! Except for some really arcane hacking, where Vim would come first (and Emacs second), just to give the presentation some credibility (Emacs can't be best at _everything_, right?), but also as a nod to the Vim guys ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal