Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Planner too complicated? =|

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Unfortunately, planner-mode inherits a high learning code from emacs.
As it stands currently, emacs is not an editor which you can just pick
up and go the first time.  (Or, at least, not in my experience.)

Installing planner mode and setting it up, unfortunately, requires
putting a bunch of stuff in your .emacs to get it working right.
While I don't percieve that as bad, it certainly slows down the
learning time.

A solution might be a script which makes a ~/Planner/ directory and
appends some of the basic configuration to get planner running to
one's .emacs.  This, accompanied with a simple "quickstart" tutorial,
might get users playing around with it faster.

Chris Webber (aka paroneayea)


Sacha Chua <address@hidden> writes:

> Hiya, everyone!
>
>>From http://board.43folders.com/viewtopic.php?pid=421#421, a thread
> about Linux GTD tools:
>
>   Planner mode (http://sacha.free.net.ph/notebook/wiki/PlannerMode.php) looks 
> interesting, though much of the functionality may be duplicated in org-mode.
>
>   ...
>   
>   Different beasts. I personally wasn't keen on planner mode as it
>   appeared to me less suited to the GTD philosophy. It seemed to be
>   that it was better for people who plan their entire day as opposed
>   to using context lists. As always, horses for courses .....
>
>   ...
>   
>   Planner looks good, too, but it seems like it takes a bit of buy-in
>   before you can really get going with it.
>
> I wonder what we can do about this...
>
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