That's a great idea. And if the Org tutorial included an easy option to enable "PIM" mode for normie-noobs, so that Emacs starts behaving like a PIM instead of an IDE, that would be even better. Someone who's never coded before doesn't need IDE defaults.
On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 8:37 AM Corwin Brust <cor...@bru.st> wrote: > > Greetings, > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 5:33 PM Texas Cyberthal <texas.cybert...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> No, that isn't what I'm saying. I'm quite happy with Emacs, especially >> Spacemacs. However, I had a much harder adoption experience than >> necessary, and I find that the barriers to entry are preventing >> normie-noobs from choosing Org as a PIM. So I intend to fix that. > > > I'm not sure this is on-topic, but... what about creating a separate tutorial > just org-mode? > > The possibilities seem endless but, for example, this could > * provide instruction for different primary use cases (for me: note-taking, > prose, agenda, habit, babel, and literature) > * mention especially important customizations for the given usage > * offer "express setup" buttons to instantly apply settings from a sample > configuration. > > Finally, this could be added into the Emacs splash-screen alongside the > general tutorial. > > I like the idea of promoting org-mode to people using Emacs for the first > time and I like the idea of sensible defaults, especially that reduce > frustrations for users new to the GNU tool-chain That said, org-mode is lots > of things to lots of people, even notwithstanding the reticence to break > things for people who've had them working the way the like for decades. I > think this is fundamentally an education problem. But even if that's wrong, > I think we should look closely at education as a solution. > > -- > Corwin > 612-217-1742 > 612-298-0615 (fax) > 612-695-4276 (mobile) > corwin.brust (skype) > cor...@bru.st