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Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.


From: Eric Abrahamsen
Subject: Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:54:31 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux)

Vikas Rawal <address@hidden> writes:

>> One remedy, to this, and a thing I think would be nice in any case,
>> would be if keywords in the presenting sentence would link to (worg?)
>> feature pages. 
>
> Another possibility would be to make the title just say "Org mode".
>
> And the first headline, before "Download and install", be something
> like the following:
>
> * Org mode is useful for
> ** Organising projects
> ** Maintaining TODO lists and calendars
> ** Keeping notes
> ** Creating high quality formatted documents
> ** Literate programming
>
> Each of the above could then be linked to relevant pages of the manual
> or worg.

I like this -- it seems like the best crash-landing strategy for
new users is to give them a single comforting phrase to look at (I liked
the old "your life in plain text"), and then a concise list of things
that org does, like the above.




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