Harry Schwartz on Org Mode

Harry Schwartz, who appears to have moved to Boston from New York, gave a talk at the Boston Emacs Meetup on Getting Started with Org-mode. It’s not really a tutorial but a demonstration of many of Org’s features and how you can use them.

Schwartz spends a lot of time on the publishing aspects, which in many ways is Org’s best feature. One of the things he mentioned in the talk that I didn’t know was that Org can export to the Twitter Bootstap framework. That makes it really easy to build a nice looking Web site from the comfort of Emacs and Org mode.

He also mentions Owncloud, a self-hosted file sync and share server. Schwartz describes it as a sort of private Dropbox. It allows you to sync and share files among your different devices. It’s probably most useful for, say, a team but like Schwartz you can use it to keep your own machines in sync if you don’t want to bother with something like Git.

The talk is about 56 minutes so schedule some time. Even if you’re familiar with Org, you may learn something useful from the talk.

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