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  • I use org mode extensively, and yeah, gotta admit it’s nice.

    My biggest gripe is the amount of typing it still takes to annotate stuff. I often find it hard to keep up e.g. taking live notes in a class settings.

    For instance, starting a new document and typing:

      #+BEGIN_TITLE
      Class XYZ Notes
      #+END_TITLE
    
    

    Then later on I wanna insert a code segment, and, gotta:

      #+BEGIN_SRC javascript
      $var = "ooh, cool code, bro.";
      #+END_SRC
    
    

    (yeah, C-c C-, s works, but I gotta remember that exists, and then also ewww generates in lowercase – uppercase that shortcut output!)

    And then I find I want a table, so lots of "|"s

    There’s probably better faster shortcuts for lots of this, but like everything in emacs, it’s finding and learning them. Typically I need some downtime to do that, which doesn’t happen if I’m e.g. trying to take notes quickly.

    Anyway, despite this, I gotta agree org mode is really helpful. Happying org’ing to you!

    – Pat