Stormrider has an interesting and inspiring post in which he says that 90% of his life is handled by Org-mode. Stormrider is a technical writer and occasional programmer. As such, he is a perfect example of someone who can benefit from Org-mode. Stormrider started out as a Vim user and, like me, remained one for many years. When he changed jobs, one of his new colleagues suggested Emacs as an efficient way of combining his writing and coding examples. Later, at another job, his colleagues were all Emacs and Org-mode users and that helped him find his home.
Stormrider has a set of principals that he lives by. They are:
- Keep it simple.
- Do one thing at a time.
- Network.
- Say what you mean.
- Hack.
- Be who you are.
- Use leverage.
- Use what you have.
- Have faith.
- Think ahead.
A large part of Stormrider’s post describes how Org-mode satisfies those principals. That may sound a little “new age” but Stormrider explains how those principals make sense for him given his experiences and how Org-mode does, in fact, satisfy them.
What I like about this post is that it’s not simply an “Org-mode helped me organize my life” post but an “Org-mode turned out to be an application that perfectly matched how I think and how I work” post. If you’re looking for a story of how Org-mode can help someone organize and revitalize their workflow, Stormrider’s post is a good example.