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Actually I left 🫣🫣 After using it for a few years. I couldn't get a hang of it on Android, and I ended up switching to caldav for tasks and markdown for notes.
Currently testing out https://silverbullet.md
I did enjoy orgmode for a long time, but I got too old for init.el ..
I use org mode extensively, and yeah, gotta admit it's nice.
My biggest gripe is the amount of typing it still takes to annotate stuff. I often find it hard to keep up e.g. taking live notes in a class settings.
For instance, starting a new document and typing:
#+BEGIN_TITLE
Class XYZ Notes
#+END_TITLE
Then later on I wanna insert a code segment, and, gotta:
#+BEGIN_SRC javascript
$var = "ooh, cool code, bro.";
#+END_SRC
(yeah, C-c C-, s works, but I gotta remember that exists, and then also ewww generates in lowercase -- uppercase that shortcut output!)
And then I find I want a table, so lots of "|"s
There's probably better faster shortcuts for lots of this, but like everything in emacs, it's finding and learning them. Typically I need some downtime to do that, which doesn't happen if I'm e.g. trying to take notes quickly.
Anyway, despite this, I gotta agree org mode is really helpful. Happying org'ing to you!
-- Pat
You can do #+TITLE: titletext instead for titles at least, also I guess the table stuff is reasons to do emacs because you only need to do the first | and then pressing tab/enter like excel does the rest
You can use yasnippet or tempel with tempel-collections to create blocks from templates without having to write them all by yourself (https://github.com/mattiasdrp/pokemacs/blob/main/init.org#tempel for example)
Thanks for the encouragement. I suppose I can make a macro or a temporary marker to replace them for proper syntax like you described when I'm in a hurry? I first have to transform some of the notes I'm using to org-mode syntax first so I can get used to this.
Reading the docs it feels close to markdown, but most markdown implementations have a much simpler format for code blocks with syntax specified:
```javascript
$var = "ooh, cool code, bro.";
```
Will turn into:
$var = "ooh, cool code, bro.";
(Though lemmy-ui doesn't seem to support syntax highlighting.)
There used to be an awesome vi tutorial page at the University of Hawaii but it's no longer there. You might find it archived on the internet archive way back though.
There's also the game to help learn vim.
Huh! That's pretty cool. I've bookmarked the site to check it out later. Thanks!
Full disclosure, I think you have to pay to get past like the second level.
That's the one! I learned vi with that website. Turned me into a big fan.
Just out of curiosity, do you know of a good resource for learning awk, sed, and grep?
There are two really good O'Reilly books: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/sed-awk/1565922255/ and https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mastering-regular-expressions/0596528124/ (regex in general)
-- not sure if these are still available as standalone pdfs; but back in the day I worked through them in part, and they were extremely helpful.
I think that's the one.
Many thanks, will check that one.
What?
You're getting downvotes, but I also have no idea what's going on in this post.