Dnia 2013-09-28, o godz. 08:11:23 Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> napisał(a):
> Hi everyone, > > today I looked at our tutorial page at > > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/index.html > > and came away with the feeling that that this page has become > somewhat useless for people who are really new to Org. I think > the page should start with a section of true recommendations > for beginners, a path we tell every new users to take in order to > learn about Org mode. > > Can we have a discussion here on how this path should look like? > When you came to Org-mode as a newby, what were the three resources > that really made an impression on by being accessible and > providing feel and promise for digging deeper? As I hinted in my previous email, there are two cases: 1. Emacs users who are new to Org-mode. This is basically covered by the manual. Period. 2. People new to Emacs who might want to use it /because/ of Org-mode. Here we have a huge potential for improvement, so to speak;). A couple of thoughts: - Screencasts and videos might be a viable option (even though it is a bit old, I consider your Google lecture a very good introduction to Org-mode - a survey of features; it is, however, aimed more at a power user than a newbie). - What might be really interesting would be something along the lines of C-h t. In fact, the Emacs tutorial itself badly needs an update imho. And a similar thing for Org-mode might be even better. In fact, though I am quite busy at the moment, I'd be happy to start thinking about something like this in my free time. What do you think? - For new users, there might be an installation instruction /including/ installing Emacs (especially on Windows machines, where it might be tricky). I think it should be emphasized that (at least in case of Org-mode) Emacs may be treated more as an application framework, which incidentally has more text-editing capabilities than, say, edit boxes of GTK etc. (just a bit more, you know;)), and that Org-mode is an application running in this particular environment. (Calling it an Elisp Virtual Machine might be a bit stretching, though;).) - Last but not least: we are still waiting for Sacha Chua to draw a sketchnote-based intro to Org-mode;). > - Carsten Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University
