Re: Org Tutorials need more structure

[Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net>]

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Hi Carsten,

On 9/28/2013 2:11 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> today I looked at our tutorial page at
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/index.html
>
> and came away with the feeling that that this page has become
> somewhat useless for people who are really new to Org.
- I disagree. Your Google talk was just right - for me. It was my first 
exposure to Org Mode.
>
> Can we have a discussion here on how this path should look like?
> When you came to Org-mode as a newby, what were the three resources
> that really made an impression on by being accessible and
> providing feel and promise for digging deeper?
About three years ago I stumbled across Org Mode when I was searching 
Emacs in general. (I already was familiar with Emacs, but only to "fool 
around".)
After viewing the Google talk, I specifically searched Org Mode. The 
three resources that made an impression:
- the general tutorials, starting with David O'Toole's,
- the Compact Guide with the Further Readings, (I did not look at the 
ones in the Org Manual) since this gave me a sense of how Org is and can 
be used, and
- *the mailing list*, which was the one resource that has made the 
greatest impression on me from the beginning. It has been and is my best 
resource; it provides the greatest exposure to Org Mode both as to its 
uses and sense of the Org community.
- Thank you Carsten, Bastien and all the rest if you for Org Mode.

Charlie Millar


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