My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)

Re:My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a sing... by AreYouElite on Thursday December 23, 2021 @10:01AM (#29662437)

ORG-MODE ORG-MODE ORG-MODE Jeff, everything you do could be done with org-mode by using a key combination. it would also add a calender with an agenda and schedule and and and and the main thing: it's a text file just like what you are using. this is a nice how to (no relation to me) https://youtu.be/SzA2YODtgK4

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Re:My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a sing... by themodelplumber on Thursday December 23, 2021 @10:15AM (#29662572)

Isn't org mode less portable though? My understanding was that you need an editor plus appropriate tooling for it to really shine, which to me is similar to saying "productivity software" and less like text editing.

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Re:My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a sing... by xenodium on Thursday December 23, 2021 @12:44PM (#29664259)

I'm working on making org more portable (at least bring parts to iOS), via https://plainorg.com and flathabits.com.

Karl Voit is doing the hard work of rallying folks to promote org markup outside of Emacs and hopefully create a diverse ecosystem under the Orgdown proposal https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown

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Re:My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a sing... by kworks on Friday December 24, 2021 @11:55AM (#29675166)

Plainorg is awesome. Keep up the great work. The app has enabled me to use the org-mode based plaintext productivity system I've found most effective on my phone. Super useful.

Incidentally, the system I use is from Mark Forster's 'Autofocus' constellation of productivity experiments. Unfortunate that his work is not more widely known because it's quite effective (for me at least).

Here's a link to the version I use: http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2021/11/16/the-final...

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Re:My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a sing... by xenodium on Sunday December 26, 2021 @03:10PM (#29695844)

> Plainorg is awesome. Keep up the great work. The app has enabled me to use the org-mode based plaintext productivity system I've found most effective on my phone. Super useful.

Wonderful to hear. Thank you.

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Re:My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a sing... by dempedempe on Thursday December 23, 2021 @04:08PM (#29666498)

I have yet to try PlainOrg, but loved your app, Flathabits!

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Re:My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a sing... by xenodium on Thursday December 23, 2021 @05:13PM (#29667111)

Thank you. Nice to hear that!

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Re:My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a sing... by lytefm on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:51AM (#29663621)

I wouldn't say that it's less portable than using your custom txt file file format.

But sure, in order to really make it shine and you'll want to use Emacs and something like orgzly on the phone.

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Re:My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a sing... by q1w2 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @05:20PM (#29667162)

I'm using a markdown big file. What features in org-mode are really worth making me look at it?

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Re:My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a sing... by xenodium on Thursday December 23, 2021 @06:07PM (#29667620)

Org is pretty rich. Folks often pick and choose different bits. There's a great writeup that gives a fairly extensive tour: Org Mode - Organize Your Life In Plain Text! http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html

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