From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: M Subject: Re: How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment? Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:45:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47589) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SpRCS-0007z6-Hr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:45:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SpRCR-0004tz-Hg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:45:28 -0400 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:55119) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SpRCR-0004ta-7h for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:45:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Hendy Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" > Von: John Hendy > Datum: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:16:34 -0500 > An: M > Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" > Betreff: Re: [O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based > environment? > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:06 PM, M wrote: >> >> >> I'm using Emacs org-mode for task and information management in a business >> environment dominated by Microsoft products (Windows, Office, ...). >> >> I wonder how to create a set-up for maximum productivity and I'd like to >> know how you integrate org-mode in your work on MS Windows. >> >> Creating hyperlinks in my org-mode files/tasks, which let me jump directly >> to E-Mail in MS Outlook (Exchange-based), open Word-, Excel- or Powerpoint >> documents, etc. is a very helpful feature for integrating org-mode. >> >> Are there other techniques, tools or add-ons which are helpful for that >> purpose? > > My personal technique is to let everyone /else/ use MS and to use > org-mode as exclusively as I can. My management is fully used to me > providing PDF Beamer presentations at project update meetings while > everyone else has submitted PowerPoints. I can submit reports as a > file upload to our central research document center, so I compose in > org-mode, and then tweak/final-export in LaTeX. Hi John, thanks for your detailed answer! Well, a large part of my work is sharing and editing Office documents together with other people and as meetings are planned with MS Outlook/MS Exchange etc, I can not avoid using MS Outlook and MS Office and it is not sufficient to distribute PDF documents. So unfortunately I'll have to find a way to integrate as good as possible. (I had tried to use MS Outlook 2007 for managing tasks for some weeks but I was missing a lot of features I got used to from org-mode, so I installed org-mode. One example of helpful integration: if I send or get an e-mail which I want to follow-up on later, I want to track that in org-mode and I want to have a way to quickly find the original message in Outlook again (to reply or forward it or whatever), which can be done with hyperlinks. I'm sure there are a lot more useful tricks which can help in daily work, e. g. a vba macro which copies the path to the currently open word or excel document into the clipboard or even directly opens org-capture to add some note or task which is linked to this document... So I'm hoping to get in contact with people with the same problems or solutions to them. :-) Kind regards Martin