Mark Barton <mbarto...@gmail.com> writes: >> You will likely find more young people >> who use Emacs and org will also use email more, but I don't know if that >> is because the types of people attracted to Emacs and org mode are also >> the types of people more attracted to email for comms. > > > My trend has been moving from GUI to the benefit that text based solutions > provide: reproducibility, version control, and documentation. > In my case, email is much easier to extract into my task management system > than most IM type solutions. IM is good for short conversations, but really > has a problem with organizing more historic data that may be needed for much > tougher topics that cannot be answered in a single session. Slack threads > really drive me crazy, because I have a hard time finding them again after a > day or so. This is where I use DEVONthink to associate different forms of > data into the related projects and use DEVONthink links in org mode for my > notes and task management.
Come on. We are talking about Org mode and Emacs. Just load ol-irc.el and enjoy links to past conversations ;) Matrix client for Org will likely have Org link support in future as well. And yes, you can bridge Slack to IRC/Matrix. -- Ihor Radchenko, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at https://orgmode.org/. Support Org development at https://liberapay.com/org-mode, or support my work at https://liberapay.com/yantar92