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Darius Kazemi

@operand (cc'ing @rrix who also recommended org-mode/org-roam)

My biggest fear about org-mode is it seems like the kind of thing where you can lose yourself spending more time configuring the tool than actually researching. One of the things I liked about roam is I *couldn't* configure it much, which forced me to actually do my research instead.

Also the idea of learning emacs after 20 years of vim use seems daunting. I have no preference, I picked vim at random in 2000, but it's scary.

20 Sep 2020 at 18:50 | Open on friend.camp
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brennen

@darius @operand @rrix it's sort of a mess as a piece of software, and surely doesn't do a bunch of things that roam does, but (as someone with a ~20 year vim habit and an inability to go back to emacs for RSI reasons) i tried vimwiki a while back and wound up dumping my whole life into it. there's some temptation to yak shave, but after ~4 years i've mostly kept it to the "handful of extra keybindings and a hundred lines or so of helper script" level.

21 Sep 2020 at 4:52 | Open on mastodon.social
neil πŸ„

@darius @operand @rrix

I use org-roam and really like it. The yak shaving was more on the publishing side than the actual knowledge management, OOTB that's pretty OK. (Although that's assuming familiarity with emacs.. A thread: org-roam.discourse.group/t/the)

(Side tangent, but spacemacs or doom emacs is worth a look for vim bindings in emacs... I migrated from long-time vim use a few years back (specifically for org-mode, as it happens!), and very happy with the binding support.)

@darius @operand @rrix

I use org-roam and really like it. The yak shaving was more on the publishing side than the actual knowledge management, OOTB that's pretty OK. (Although that's assuming familiarity with emacs.. A thread: org-roam.discourse.group/t/the)

22 Sep 2020 at 17:50 | Open on social.coop
neil πŸ„

@darius @operand @rrix Relevant to your point darius, a note from Sonke Ahrens, saying it's important to have a very low threshold of writing, where you don’t get distracted by the software itself invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=

23 Sep 2020 at 12:54 | Open on social.coop
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