[Orgmode] Re: Documentation wishlist items

2009-09-17 Thread Ethan
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Matt Lundin m...@imapmail.org wrote: O.K. So I went a little crazy and added a bunch of definitions to the glossary. - http://orgmode.org/worg/org-glossary.php Perhaps it's not so much a glossary any more as an shorter introduction to the basic concepts

[Orgmode] Re: Documentation wishlist items

2009-09-17 Thread Matthew Lundin
Ethan ethan.glasser.c...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Matt Lundin m...@imapmail.org wrote: O.K. So I went a little crazy and added a bunch of definitions to the glossary.  - http://orgmode.org/worg/org-glossary.php Perhaps it's not so

[Orgmode] Re: Documentation wishlist items

2009-09-16 Thread Bernt Hansen
Matt Lundin m...@imapmail.org writes: Ethan ethan.glasser.c...@gmail.com writes: Reading HOWTO's like Bernt Hansen's and Charles Cave's are really interesting to see how people work, but even documents like these don't explain *why* they set things up in this way. For example, Bernt

[Orgmode] Re: Documentation wishlist items

2009-09-16 Thread Matt Lundin
Sebastian Rose sebastian_r...@gmx.de writes: Ethan ethan.glasser.c...@gmail.com writes: Hi guys, Documentation is not such an easy thing to do and a lot of work, too. A tutorial _is_ missing. We had some discussions here about that, but no one got around to it. I think about it every so

[Orgmode] Re: Documentation wishlist items

2009-09-16 Thread Ethan
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Matt Lundin m...@imapmail.org wrote: My guess is that this allows him to see what group an item belongs to in the agenda view, since categories are listed in the left column. But this is like asking why someone puts their pots in the cupboard next to the

[Orgmode] Re: Documentation wishlist items

2009-09-16 Thread Matt Lundin
Sebastian Rose sebastian_r...@gmx.de writes: Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com writes: Sebastian Rose sebastian_r...@gmx.de writes: Here is some kind of outline for such a tutorial. Wow. That an outline for a full book! And I guess that's what comes at the horizon: an (O-Reilly)

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Documentation wishlist items

2009-09-16 Thread tycho garen
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:32:02PM -0400, Matthew Lundin wrote: As a point of comparison, I divide my files according to area of responsibility (household.org, health.org, family.org, writing.org, etc.) so that I can quickly review what I need to do in each area. When I'm done with an item,

[Orgmode] Re: Documentation wishlist items

2009-09-16 Thread Matt Lundin
Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com writes: Hi Ethan, Ethan ethan.glasser.c...@gmail.com writes: Another good example is TODO keywords, categories, and tags. It isn't clear what they all are, or why they are distinct, or what the differences are, and it's easy to confuse them with

[Orgmode] Re: Documentation wishlist items

2009-09-15 Thread Sean Sieger
Ethan ethan.glasser.c...@gmail.com writes: Thanks for the mail Ethan. I approached Org ... I don't know, a few years ago having really really taken advantage of Outline. I promptly made a mess, trying things I thought I needed to and went back to Outline and organization that was natural to me.

[Orgmode] Re: Documentation wishlist items

2009-09-15 Thread Matt Lundin
Ethan ethan.glasser.c...@gmail.com writes: Hi guys, I've been studying org-mode for a few months now, and I think I'm finally getting the hang of it. I'm still saying the same thing after 1 year. :) It's really overwhelming, and I really appreciate the efforts that must have gone into