Being active on the Emacs and Org mode mailing lists, and other forums, I can say with confidence that this is not true.
In fact, I am seeing active development in both Emacs and Org; not just bug fixes, but frequent additions of new features.
> org-mode is only any good if you're using the full power of it (tasks, agenda, etc), which is buying into
Org markup is much more powerful than Markdown. So you can be much more productive by using Org just as markup. One example is '#+INCLUDE: "foo.py" :lines-5-10'.. This is tremendously useful if you are writing notes that export to some format or blogging.. you don't need to copy-paste code snippets, Org will fetch them for you. (I have a customization built on top of that.. instead of specifying the line numbers, I can specify the start and end regexp for the lines containing my snippet). Add org-babel to this mix, and you don't even need to run the snippets, and copy the results manually; again Org does it.
I recently blogged about comparing string related functions between Python and Nim: https://scripter.co/notes/string-functions-nim-vs-python/
I cannot imagine myself writing (and maintaining) that post in Markdown!
On the next update of Nim version, I'll simply run org-babel over the whole file, see git diff to check if anything major has changed, and update the post accordingly.. no copy/pasting ever :)
> a system that's soon going away.
Again, really? What made you think that?
Convincing!
I am curious about the org-source you used for that article, is it public?
- source of that specific post in raw org [1] - site source [2]
[1]: https://gitlab.com/kaushalmodi/kaushalmodi.gitlab.io/raw/mas...
[2]: https://gitlab.com/kaushalmodi/kaushalmodi.gitlab.io
(I wish HN supported some markup :P)
That post does not have any #+INCLUDE because all the code snippets are trivial. I would use #+INCLUDE in posts where I have a code file, and I want to talk about only few lines from that.
I have different examples of #+INCLUDE in my examples file[1] for my Org to Markdown for Hugo exporter -- ox-hugo[2]. There I use the inbuilt INCLUDE feature where I choose to include only the specified Org sub-tree (using the sub-tree CUSTOM_ID). The above referenced post on Nim/Python is converted to Markdown for Hugo using the same exporter.
[1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo/master... [2]: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo
This is awesome. Is this available anywhere? I'd like to use it.
It's been a decade and they still haven't figured out mobile.
Unless you're that networking guy that just massively tries to organise a thousand meetings a day on the go - I believe that a laptop is a better way to use your organiser.
I've had a lecturer at the university who still used a console-based e-mail client. He knew all of the shortcuts by heart - and I am pretty sure it would probably take me a few years to casually learn how to use Outlook/Gmail/etc.. as efficiently (and even then - most of the UI-based applications tend to somehow forget that a keyboard exists at all).
You'll ask me: "but what about mobile?". Well - the guy _never_ replied to your e-mails outside his office hours; but when he did - he gave you a proper, short and an informal answer. And to be fair, he seemed to have a great personal life.
Besides, if you are a true power-user of these tools and had been years before - there's quite a high probability that the newer tools would require quite some time to mature in order to make them a fully-functional alternative.
This is to say that I still find Calendar apps on mobile quite tricky to use as opposed to a fast "point-and-drag" alternative on desktop. I would rather open up a laptop unless I don't have it.
That may be true, but it does nothing for people who need to take notes using their phone now.
It's not full org mode for sure, but it's a solid way to read and do simple changes to my .org files on my phone.
When I take meeting notes, I end up using OneNote or Google Docs:
- I have a tree of `Who - What` (and the counter-bikeshedding).
- Images of block diagrams sneak in, especially if it's a planning or design meeting.
- Full text search is handy, one-note especially spoiled me by doing OCR
- I like GDocs in particular for the real-enough-time collaboration. It can help quieter people not get steamrolled in conversation, especially if you have a boisterous note-taker to speak up for them :)
Yes, buying into the todo and agenda systems effectively requires using an external integration script or using emacs all the way through, so that's not all that great. I, too, have yet to figure out how to integrate it into the usual PIM stuff like next loud calendars, etc.
Has anyone else managed to figure this bit out?