I went Obsidian → Logseq → Emacs.

  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    13 hours ago

    I love orgmode to a point, but when I tried to learn how to do the more complex stuff, that syntax began to make my eyes bleed.

  • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world
    8·
    17 hours ago

    oh dear another victim falls to the church of emacs…

    Anyway…

    Be prepared to invest at least 3 months to do all the research (i.e find working code snippets online) and tweak to your likings. This is assuming you dont know elisp. If you do then it will be faster. Think now with AI, you can write these codes even faster

    Org mode is the best. It is just a text file when open with other text editor: very lightweight and very easy for version control. The magic happens when you are in emacs, you can:

    1. Create a list of task and subtask and susubtask. This is easy

    2. Create a fully working latex document with all the stuffs required like the include packages. You can then compile that latex and view WiTHIN emacs. You can even configure so code on left, pdf on right and a keystroke will compile and refresh the pdf .

    3. The notes are not only text notes. You can create programming notes. So something like this, excuse my wrong syntax it has been a while:

    • Your header with text

    ** your subheader with text

    *** your subsubheader, instead of text, you now have a code block. It looks like this, again syntax maybe wrong

    #+begin_python

    print(“Hello”)

    #+end_python

    AND you can run that code above and have it output to WITHIN emacs. But that is not all, you can have the codeblocks communicate with each other:

    Say you have a block A that does some computations and generate a vector. Say it is complex calculations and you need the block in C++ for speed.

    Then you have block B which is a Python block that uses Matplotlib to plot. You can feed result of A into B so B can plot.

    1. Last but not least, you can CREATE A BASIC TABLE LIKE EXCEL AND HAVE IT DOES THE CALCULATIONS ON ROWS/COLUMNS. sorry caps… this feature blows my mind everytime. So in a text file, you can very quickly create

    |--dates----|-----Spending---|

    | Monday | 40 |

    | Tuesday| 100 |

    emacs can format the table very nicely and very quicky. Much nicer than I have above, 100%.

    Then, you can tell it to sort, add, subtract, multiply or whatever to the table. You can swap rows, swap columns with just a keystroke.

    If you want to go even further, you can create an Agenda table where one of the columns is a due date. Then I believe you can schedule the tasks and sync them with Google Calendar. So your phone gets the reminders too… There is an app on Android that allows you to edit the Org mode file directly too…

    FUCK now I need to get back to emacs. Havent used it for months but this post shows up. I blame you (jk).

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        12 hours ago

        How to look it up:

        M-x org-mode RET

        That’s “Meta-X” (Alt-X), then “org-mode” and Enter, switches the major mode of the current buffer to org-mode so that we have the org-mode keybindings active.

        C-h k C-c C-x C-l

        C-h, Control-H, is the “help” prefix. “C-h k” is describe-key, tells you what a given key sequence runs. C-h k C-c C-x C-l will say what C-c C-x C-l does. It gives the following output:

        C-c C-x C-l runs the command org-latex-preview (found in
org-mode-map), which is an interactive native-comp-function in
‘org.el’.

It is bound to C-c C-x C-l.

(org-latex-preview &optional ARG)

Toggle preview of the LaTeX fragment at point.

If the cursor is on a LaTeX fragment, create the image and
overlay it over the source code, if there is none.  Remove it
otherwise.  If there is no fragment at point, display images for
all fragments in the current section.  With an active region,
display images for all fragments in the region.

With a ‘C-u’ prefix argument ARG, clear images for all fragments
in the current section.

With a ‘C-u C-u’ prefix argument ARG, display image for all
fragments in the buffer.

With a ‘C-u C-u C-u’ prefix argument ARG, clear image for all
fragments in the buffer.
      • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        19 hours ago

        It’s a real Emacs hotkey that converts all Latex blocks in your file into preview copies of them. Emacs is weird like that.

  • Typewar@infosec.pub
    32·
    2 days ago

    Once you discover org mode… you’re not going back.

    I love infinite nested tasks; subtasks, sub subtasks, subsubsubtasks, subsubsubsubaubtasks.

    See check this. You start by creating 3 main points… then you need to give more info to these 3 points, and you can either insert tons of text under it… or create subtasks. Now you figure the subtasks need explanation, again either text or subtasks. Lovely

    • CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      My problem with that is mobile. If I want tasks, I’ll use a dedicated primarily mobile app, (e.g. Tasks.org) because if I’m checking a grocery list or tweaking my daily todo list while out of the house, I’m not gonna pull out my laptop lol

      Of course it seems reasonable for more long-term plans which you don’t need to change day-to-day, but at that point I’d just end up with two to do lists/apps which is also a bother.

    • felbane@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 days ago

      Any good tutorials? I’m on OP’s “logseq” step but I’m still floundering with how to actually organize my thoughts and notes. The “daily journal” style of logseq is alright for brain dumping, I guess, but I have a hard time reorganizing the dump into cohesive tasks/projects/future reference notes.

  • johnwicksdog@aussie.zoneEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    I went the ohterway with Emacs -> Logseq -> Obsidian, but with several things in between. Emacs isn’t for me, I did give it a red hot go and coded off it for a good year or two about 10-15 years ago.

    HOWEVER, I have to agree. Emac’s Orgmode is first class and I’ve never been as satisfied with a task app since. However, at the time I was using it, mobile support was pretty much nonexistent, and I was missing vim too much, so I eventually abandoned it.

    Now i just use a selfhosted instance of memos, which is sparse on its feature set, but works well for me.

      • johnwicksdog@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        I think I might have seen a build or two even back then. However, what I need from a mobile app isn’t to provide all of emacs, but rather just satisfy a few key use cases. Providing everything comes at the cost of usability, which is a key requirement for a mobile app. Really I just need to capture notes and tasks and see task lists, but trying to use the mobile emacs in the middle of a conversation, commuting, or grabbing coffee isn’t ideal.

        There were a couple of 3rd party apps that were designed for orgmode, but after I trialled, but they all fell short for me.

        Even if it had the best mobile app now however, I wouldn’t go back to emacs. Each to their own, but I’ve become way more aligned with the unix philosophy of “do one thing, and do it well”, where as I see emacs more as “lets do as much as we can in one app”. IMO Ofc.

    • whimsy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      81·
      1 day ago

      But it really does, with evil/meow mode. But to be honest, the default emacs keybindings are actually not bad

  • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 days ago

    Vim was my primary tool of development for over a decade, and I used Obsidian for about 3 years. However, in early 2024, I tried out Emacs and never looked back.

    I find it functionally equivalent to Vim albeit perceivably slower, and Org-mode (+Denote) is far superior than Markdown and Obsidian with its slew of plugins.

    Migrating my 3 years worth of notes was a pain since I was using Obsidian’s variant of Markdown syntax to link other notes. In the end I gave up trying to convert those notes, and used them alongside my new Org-mode notes, thanks to Denote’s interoperability.

    In fact, Denote’s naming philosophy is so powerful yet simple that I started using it for all documents and downloads.

  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
    9·
    2 days ago

    Todoist works great and I don’t need to learn a whole operating system to use it. Plus, it works on my phone!