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Linux GTD roll call

dro0g | Oct 26 2005

Hi everyone,

Anyone else using Linux as their day-to-day OS? I switched my work laptop over completely a while ago, though I still run Windows under a VMWare VM for the sake of accessing Lotus Notes and a few other work requried Windows apps.

What office pr0n tools have folks used under Linux? I've played around with VIMOutliner and GnomeTasks, along with several stand alone wikis. My team is using the NotesWiki template from OpenNTF for shared information and that's worked out fantastically.

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I'm another GNU/Linux user, using...

Submitted by SLConsultant on November 30, 2005 - 11:09pm.

dominik wrote:
jason.mcbrayer wrote:
I'm another GNU/Linux user, using Emacs org-mode as my main organizer. I had previously been using something called 'howm' for Emacs, which was good but quirky and unmaintained (afaict). Org seems to be good for the one-big-text-file approach. Planner looks good, too, but it seems like it takes a bit of buy-in before you can really get going with it. The good thing about org-mode is that it is part of Emacs now (in cvs), and works with the emacs diary. The one thing I really don't like about it is weak support for in-file links.

You mean links from one place in the file to another place in the same file? How would you use this? Tell me more and I might implement it.

- Carsten


Emacs howm is actually "actively" maintained, there is just not enough English documentation around it -- developed in Japan. Besides, it is a minor mode, it works perfectly well with "org" mode. You just need to set howm to use "org" as the major mode.

The in-file link (if I interpret it right) is really, really a neat feature, if you can see the diagram on this page, you will have an idea -- it even supports the "bidirectional" link concept.
http://howm.sourceforge.jp/

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