Hello comrades and welcome to the third improvement megathread of August!
Some discussion ideas:
- How was your week?
- Do you have some plans for next week?
- Do you have some tools or resources that you want to share?
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Good luck with your goals!
Sounds cool, I am in the market for a new note-taking tool so I will check it out. Another comrade recommended Logseq recently
Incoming brain dump.
Emacs has a higher learning curve because it’s really a whole ass desktop environment. So it’s more to learn than just the note taking program (org-mode) but it’s a useful skill to have long term. Especially if you ever want to write long form technical papers or even fiction, org-mode can export into almost any format (such as LaTeX). A benefit over Logseq is that Eacs is based in plain text files while Logseq is stored in a database. I like the peace of mind that I have total control over my workflow and will never be locked into any single system.
You can basically customize Emacs in any way you can think of, while most other note taking programs have opinionated implementations that are difficult to modify. And since there is both a GUI and terminal based version of Emacs, you can run the same software (with same config file) on any device that can run a terminal. Even remotely over ssh.
One downside to Emacs is that it’s not that useable on mobile. This past February they added native Android support, but it’s still quite basic and hamstrung by the Android security model. However there are apps that can view org-mode files on both Android and iOS.