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> Make the OS your task management system

Can anyone who is more familiar with orgmode describe how it might play this role?




> > Make the OS your task management system

> Can anyone who is more familiar with orgmode describe how it might play this role?

Emacs, full screen (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FullScreen), auto-starting org-mode, and do everything you can in it (http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/3996068979/the-levels-of-em...). It helps if you already use Emacs, such as writing software in it.


Yeah there's my problem. I've heard wonderful things about orgmode, to the point that people think it's worth switching. But I'm a vim user and I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble. Trying to get a variety of opinions.


I just switched from vim to emacs for org-mode. I use evil and the key mappings are very, very close. Give it a shot. It's really good. eLisp is kind of fun to play around with, I already grok that better than the vim language.

A couple perks of the switch: org-mode, magit (wrapper for git), elisp is kind of fun and makes customizing emacs really approachable (subjective of course), I used to live in the commandline (bash, tmux, vim) but I've found that I navigate my system faster and better than before (buffers and registers).

There's a steep learning curve, but being willing to read documentation is helpful. It's definitely been worth it for me. And I do think that conceptually thinking of emacs as an OS or interface to your computer rather than a text editor is helpful.




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