org/lightning-talk-org-mode/org-mode.org

org mode

How did I end up here?

• watched a talk on why a vim'er switched to Emacs mentioning org-mode
• some say it's a gateway drug to Emacs 😱
• watched a talk of the org-mode author Carsten Dominik

Motivations

• Projects don't start with tasks maybe ideating, knowledge gathering etc., writing that down and organising it. Tasks naturally appear in that process.
• Avoid separate tools for note taking and tasks.
• Plain text files are the only portable document format 😍

Today it describes itself as

Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.

org

• markup language quite close to Markdown
• common file extenstion .org
• even github supports it

structure

,* Awesome Project

  Let me tell you some things about this project.

  Paragraphs are separated by at least one empty line.

  ,*bold* /italic/ _underlined_ +strikethrough+ =monospaced=
  [[https://brandwatch.com][Brandwatch]] [[file:org-mode.html][other org document]]

  : Simple pre-formatted text such as for source code.
  : This also respects the line breaks. *bold* is not bold here.

,** Goals

   Enable a user to shoot himself in his *right* foot.

,** Architecture

,*** DONE Technical Requirements

    Well run 24/7 - yolo.

,*** DONE Data Store
,*** DONE Hosting
,*** TODO API                                      :decition:

    - [X] access control
    - [ ] connection to data store

,*** TODO Frontend Stack

Emacs major mode

• major mode determines the editing behaviour
• basically helps you editing/organising an org file
• there are some crazy advanced

Demo