{"id":2878,"date":"2014-08-11T08:15:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T12:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2014-08-11T08:15:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T12:15:22","slug":"moving-from-scrivener-to-org-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2878","title":{"rendered":"Moving from Scrivener to Org-mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The estimable Org-mode maintainer Bastien Guerry tweeted a link to an <a href=\"http:\/\/comments.gmane.org\/gmane.emacs.orgmode\/88816\">interesting thread<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gmane.org\/gmane.emacs.orgmode\">Org-mode mailing list<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Nice <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/emacs?src=hash\">#emacs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/orgmode?src=hash\">#orgmode<\/a> thread: &quot;A gentle introduction to Emacs &amp; Org-mode?&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/dO5F0kHCGE\">http:\/\/t.co\/dO5F0kHCGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bzg2\/statuses\/493365340504862720\">July 27, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <\/p>\n<p> The thread concerned advice for a writer wishing to try Emacs and Org-mode. What I found interesting is that the writer was currently using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literatureandlatte.com\/scrivener.php\">Scrivener<\/a>. I&#8217;ve written before about <a href=\"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2813\">my belief that Emacs can do everything Scrivener can<\/a>. The thread doesn&#8217;t address that but it <i>is<\/i> interesting that some of the commenters moved from Scrivener to Emacs\/Org<sup><a id=\"fnr.1\" name=\"fnr.1\" class=\"footref\" href=\"#fn.1\">1<\/a><\/sup>. <\/p>\n<p> Writers, and everyone else for that matter, should use whatever tools they&#8217;re comfortable and productive with but the thread is another piece of evidence that there&#8217;s no reason that tool can&#8217;t be Emacs. <\/p>\n<div id=\"footnotes\">\n<h2 class=\"footnotes\">Footnotes: <\/h2>\n<div id=\"text-footnotes\">\n<div class=\"footdef\"><sup><a id=\"fn.1\" name=\"fn.1\" class=\"footnum\" href=\"#fnr.1\">1<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n<p class=\"footpara\"> Not everyone agrees. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2014\/08\/down-tools.html#more\">this post<\/a>, Charlie Stross discusses his use of Scrivener and his belief that it&#8217;s <i>much<\/i> better than Org mode. There&#8217;s additional discussion of this point in the comments so when you get to the post, search for <i>Scrivener<\/i> to see everything. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The estimable Org-mode maintainer Bastien Guerry tweeted a link to an interesting thread on the Org-mode mailing list. Nice #emacs #orgmode thread: &quot;A gentle introduction to Emacs &amp; Org-mode?&quot; http:\/\/t.co\/dO5F0kHCGE &mdash; Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) July 27, 2014 The thread concerned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2878\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,4],"class_list":["post-2878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs","tag-org-mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2879,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/2879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}