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From: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)
To: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org Tutorials need more structure
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:56:24 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ob7a5h2v.fsf@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130929072801.GS12411@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> (Suvayu Ali's message of "Sun, 29 Sep 2013 09:28:01 +0200")

Aloha Suvayu,

I like this, too, except that I miss the capabilities of the export
framework.  How about?:

 a programmable and dynamic plain-text note taking platform and markup
 language

All the best,
Tom

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 07:29:26PM -0500, John Hendy wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > In this vein, I think it would be useful to have a brief statement about
>> > Org-mode that gives the interested reader from any background a good
>> > feel for the scope of Org-mode and how it presents itself to the user.
>> > I don't think the current statements about what Org-mode "is" do this
>> > very effectively, though they might have done so in the past.
>> >
>> 
>> Absolutely love that, and this puts some of your earlier comments in
>> perspective -- you're looking for the 30sec elevator pitch for
>> Org-mode, and saying "this outline-y task manager" is not cutting it.
>
> To me the best way to describe Org is: a programmable and dynamic
> plain-text note taking platform.  All its features are essentially built
> on this ability: planning & task management, authoring or publishing,
> literate programming, and what not.  On top of this, it can interact
> with external applications for tasks like referencing (links, citation,
> etc).  Of course trying to faithfully outline this in a few words is a
> herculean task.

-- 
Thomas S. Dye
http://www.tsdye.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-30 17:57 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-09-29 16:43 Rustom Mody

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