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  6. <title>Org-Mode Survey Results</title>
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  13. <h1 class="title">Org-Mode Survey Results</h1>
  14. <div id="table-of-contents">
  15. <h2>Table of Contents</h2>
  16. <ul>
  17. <li><a href="#sec-1">Survey introduction</a></li>
  18. <li><a href="#sec-2">1. Which operating system, version and Linux distribution?</a></li>
  19. <li><a href="#sec-3">2. Which Emacs are you using (GNU/Xemacs, etc) and which version? Paste the result of M-x version.</a></li>
  20. <li><a href="#sec-4">3. When did you first start using org-mode and how did you find out about it?</a></li>
  21. <li><a href="#sec-5">4. What are your main uses of org-mode?</a></li>
  22. <li><a href="#sec-6">5. New features and product maturity?</a></li>
  23. <li><a href="#sec-7">6. Additional tutorials, documentation and screencasts would you like?</a></li>
  24. <li><a href="#sec-8">7. Which features of org-mode do you use? (Spreadsheet, LaTeX, HTML, Remember, etc)</a></li>
  25. <li><a href="#sec-9">8. Your age</a></li>
  26. <li><a href="#sec-10">9. Which country do you live in?</a></li>
  27. <li><a href="#sec-11">10. Are there any other comments you would like to make about org-mode?</a></li>
  28. <li><a href="#sec-12">Appendix: Raw data for some questions:</a></li>
  29. </ul>
  30. </div>
  31. <div class="outline-2">
  32. <h2 id="sec-1">Survey introduction</h2>
  33. <p>
  34. A survey was conducted of org-mode users duing November 2007. An
  35. invitation was sent to the org-mode users list as well as announced on
  36. the <a href="http://orgmode.org">http://orgmode.org</a> web site. About 80 people resonded. This file
  37. contains a complete list of the answers, as the base of further
  38. discussion.
  39. </p>
  40. <p>
  41. Survey created and summarised by Charles Cave
  42. <a href="mailto:charlesweb@optusnet.com.au">mailto:charlesweb@optusnet.com.au</a>
  43. </p>
  44. </div>
  45. <div class="outline-2">
  46. <h2 id="sec-2">1. Which operating system, version and Linux distribution?</h2>
  47. <table border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="groups" frame="hsides">
  48. <col align="left"></col><col align="right"></col><col align="left"></col>
  49. <thead>
  50. <tr><th>OS</th><th>N</th><th>bar</th></tr>
  51. </thead>
  52. <tbody>
  53. <tr><td>Windows</td><td>31</td><td>*******************************</td></tr>
  54. <tr><td>Linux</td><td>55</td><td>*******************************************************</td></tr>
  55. <tr><td>Mac OS X</td><td>12</td><td>************</td></tr>
  56. </tbody>
  57. </table>
  58. <p>
  59. The different Linux distributions:
  60. </p>
  61. <table border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="groups" frame="hsides">
  62. <col align="left"></col><col align="right"></col><col align="left"></col>
  63. <thead>
  64. <tr><th>Distribution</th><th>N</th><th>bar</th></tr>
  65. </thead>
  66. <tbody>
  67. <tr><td>Arch Linux</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  68. <tr><td>Centos</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  69. <tr><td>Debian</td><td>14</td><td>**************</td></tr>
  70. <tr><td>Fedora</td><td>7</td><td>*******</td></tr>
  71. <tr><td>FreeBSD</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  72. <tr><td>Gentoo</td><td>7</td><td>*******</td></tr>
  73. <tr><td>Kununtu</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  74. <tr><td>MagicLinux</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  75. <tr><td>OpenBSD</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  76. <tr><td>RedHat</td><td>2</td><td>**</td></tr>
  77. <tr><td>Solarus</td><td>2</td><td>**</td></tr>
  78. <tr><td>Suse</td><td>7</td><td>*******</td></tr>
  79. <tr><td>Ubuntu</td><td>9</td><td>*********</td></tr>
  80. <tr><td>Unspecified</td><td>2</td><td>**</td></tr>
  81. </tbody>
  82. </table>
  83. </div>
  84. <div class="outline-2">
  85. <h2 id="sec-3">2. Which Emacs are you using (GNU/Xemacs, etc) and which version? Paste the result of M-x version.</h2>
  86. <p>
  87. Summary:
  88. </p><table border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="groups" frame="hsides">
  89. <col align="left"></col><col align="right"></col>
  90. <thead>
  91. <tr><th>Emacs/XEmacs</th><th>Number of answers</th></tr>
  92. </thead>
  93. <tbody>
  94. <tr><td>XEmacs</td><td>7</td></tr>
  95. <tr><td>Emacs total</td><td>73</td></tr>
  96. <tr><td>Emacs 21</td><td>4</td></tr>
  97. <tr><td>Emacs 22</td><td>47</td></tr>
  98. <tr><td>Emacs 23</td><td>18</td></tr>
  99. </tbody>
  100. </table>
  101. <p>
  102. The raw replies can be found <a href="#Raw--Emacs--versions">here</a>.
  103. </p>
  104. </div>
  105. <div class="outline-2">
  106. <h2 id="sec-4">3. When did you first start using org-mode and how did you find out about it?</h2>
  107. <ul>
  108. <li>
  109. Org 5.04, Aug 2007 - Searching around the Web
  110. </li>
  111. <li>
  112. 2007, December found about in in emacs wiki
  113. </li>
  114. <li>
  115. November 2006, found it while googling GTD tools
  116. </li>
  117. <li>
  118. moved from planner about 6 months ago
  119. </li>
  120. <li>
  121. 2005, probably read about it on Sacha Chua's blog.
  122. </li>
  123. <li>
  124. August 2007? Heard of it a long time ago, maybe by following links
  125. from johnh's notebook mode. Finally switched from planner after a
  126. friend did the same.
  127. </li>
  128. <li>
  129. October 2007
  130. </li>
  131. <li>
  132. about the begining of 2007. Heard about it on the internet I guess.
  133. </li>
  134. <li>
  135. I found it by way of emacswiki.org. I was an avid user of outline
  136. mode, and found somebody's screencast (Scott Jaderholm's, I think)
  137. showing off org mode. I've been using it for probably about six
  138. months.
  139. </li>
  140. <li>
  141. Oct. 2007. I think I was looking for an alternative to planner.el.
  142. </li>
  143. <li>
  144. august 27, 2006. I found it while looking for an alternative to
  145. planner.
  146. </li>
  147. <li>
  148. Roughly 2005/6, through a friend.
  149. </li>
  150. <li>
  151. 2007-Nov. Google.
  152. </li>
  153. <li>
  154. July 2007 after I saw the entry in Emacswiki
  155. </li>
  156. <li>
  157. april 2007
  158. </li>
  159. <li>
  160. 2007-06 thrrough Sacha Chua's blog
  161. </li>
  162. <li>
  163. Oldest entry in my archive file is June 2005, but I think I was
  164. using org for a while before that. I don't remember when I heard
  165. about it.
  166. </li>
  167. <li>
  168. Around version 4.76, don't remember when. Found about it on the
  169. Emacs Wiki.
  170. </li>
  171. <li>
  172. 10/2006 by chance looking for pim tools for Emacs
  173. </li>
  174. <li>
  175. One month ago, found a link on a web site
  176. </li>
  177. <li>
  178. 11/2005
  179. </li>
  180. <li>
  181. 02/2007 After getting annoyed with Muse-mode interaction with
  182. outline-mode, I googled and found org-mode and never went back.
  183. </li>
  184. <li>
  185. Using for about 2 years. Found org-mode after searching for a better
  186. version of outline-mode
  187. </li>
  188. <li>
  189. Sometime around Jan. 2005. Someone mentioned it on the 43folders.com
  190. message board (probably Jason F. McBrayer) and I decided I'd check
  191. it out.
  192. </li>
  193. <li>
  194. August 2007. I heard it about it on the planner mode mailing list.
  195. </li>
  196. <li>
  197. 6-12 months ago!
  198. </li>
  199. <li>
  200. I read about org-mail from an email of a maillist &hellip; dnon't know
  201. which one
  202. </li>
  203. <li>
  204. A year ago because someone mentioned it in #emacs on freenode as a
  205. better planner-el solution
  206. </li>
  207. <li>
  208. 2 months ago when I started using Emacs. I was also looking for a
  209. way to organize and found org-mode via blogs etc.
  210. </li>
  211. <li>
  212. 3 month ago. I was looking forward some emacs "PIM".
  213. </li>
  214. <li>
  215. 2007 September
  216. </li>
  217. <li>
  218. Can't remember; at least two years ago? I think I would have first
  219. heard about it from the Emacs Wiki.
  220. </li>
  221. <li>
  222. Around May 2007. I don't recall.
  223. </li>
  224. <li>
  225. No idea 6 months back probably; on the wiki site I think
  226. </li>
  227. <li>
  228. 2007-08 First heard mention in a GTD mailing list, but realised it
  229. was going to be great after seeing screencast at
  230. <a href="http://jaderholm.com/screencasts.html">http://jaderholm.com/screencasts.html</a>
  231. </li>
  232. <li>
  233. 2007
  234. </li>
  235. <li>
  236. almost 2 years emacs newsgroups
  237. </li>
  238. <li>
  239. 2006-08 (version 4.50)
  240. </li>
  241. <li>
  242. approx. March 2006. I don't recall how I found out about it.
  243. </li>
  244. <li>
  245. I think I began using it in 2005. I found out about it on the
  246. planner list.
  247. </li>
  248. <li>
  249. it's been about a year, I can't remember how I found out about it,
  250. maybe on the #emacs channel IRC.
  251. </li>
  252. <li>
  253. 2007-03 www.emacswiki.org
  254. </li>
  255. <li>
  256. 1/2007 emacs NEWS
  257. </li>
  258. <li>
  259. In 2005, I found out about org-mode while googling for some kind of
  260. outliner software. My search must have hit upon a listserv post. My
  261. first try at using it was in June 2005, but I didn't like
  262. it. Carsten made many improvements and in December 2005, he emailed
  263. me to ask me what I thought. It thought it was pretty good, and I've
  264. been using it almost every day since.
  265. </li>
  266. <li>
  267. October 2006. Saw orgmode mentioned in comments on 43folders.com
  268. </li>
  269. <li>
  270. 2007 july, emacs wiki
  271. </li>
  272. <li>
  273. Around September 2007. I first knew it from planner-mode mailing
  274. list. I used to use planner-mode.
  275. </li>
  276. <li>
  277. Oct 2007
  278. </li>
  279. <li>
  280. 2007-09 NEWS in Gnu Emacs 22
  281. </li>
  282. <li>
  283. 21 april 2006 (was the oldest .org file I could find on my
  284. system). Found out through&hellip; #emacs I think. dto was talking about
  285. it.
  286. </li>
  287. <li>
  288. I have a "org version 3.05" in my .emacs So it should be from spring
  289. 2005 (March? May?) I read an article in the web, a blog I think. so
  290. I began using Emacs to use org (uh! :-)
  291. </li>
  292. <li>
  293. August 2007 Slashdot article on GTD Wired article on GTD Google
  294. search for GTD found org-mode tutorial.
  295. </li>
  296. <li>
  297. Sep 2005
  298. </li>
  299. <li>
  300. June 2007. At may I started learning Emacs for the first time, and
  301. together all its related modes. At #emacs at irc.freenode.org and at
  302. EmacsWiki it was mentioned org-mode.
  303. </li>
  304. <li>
  305. 2007-04 I was into emacs learning and stumbled upon org-mode I don't
  306. remember where.
  307. </li>
  308. <li>
  309. 2007 February, emacswiki.org and discussions on the planner.el
  310. mailing list
  311. </li>
  312. <li>
  313. Sometime before April 2006
  314. </li>
  315. <li>
  316. About 1 year ago.
  317. </li>
  318. <li>
  319. April 2006 (ca org-mode 4.25) Switching from Planner after numerous
  320. mentions of org on the planner mailing list.
  321. </li>
  322. <li>
  323. October 2006
  324. </li>
  325. <li>
  326. In june 2006. By reading the tutorial here:
  327. <a href="http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/OrgTutorial.html">http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/OrgTutorial.html</a>
  328. </li>
  329. <li>
  330. Aug 2005 After trying out Sacha's planning mode i knew it was close,
  331. but not quite right for me. Googling around I found org mode.
  332. </li>
  333. <li>
  334. Probably 2004, before it had texinfo documentation or even before
  335. the agenda view
  336. </li>
  337. <li>
  338. 2007/10
  339. </li>
  340. <li>
  341. 2007-01 I think I've read a blog about it or I've stumbled across it
  342. at emacswiki.org.
  343. </li>
  344. <li>
  345. I started to use org-mode a year ago. I found org-mode on the emacs
  346. wiki
  347. </li>
  348. <li>
  349. 2007, September, read about it on the pages explaining how it was
  350. part of emacs-22
  351. </li>
  352. <li>
  353. November-December 2006, after googling for "emacs pim". Or,
  354. probably, there was an article (linux.com?).
  355. </li>
  356. <li>
  357. 5/2006, after emacswiki or web tutorial
  358. </li>
  359. <li>
  360. at least as long as the newsgroup has been gmane, as I submitted it
  361. there. I must have found out on emacs wiki?
  362. </li>
  363. <li>
  364. ~March 2007. I was using planner and I think I saw references to it
  365. there and checked it out.
  366. </li>
  367. <li>
  368. I subscribed to the list in 8/06. Maybe a month or two before that.
  369. </li>
  370. <li>
  371. 2007-01-01
  372. </li>
  373. <li>
  374. 2007/01, by a org-mode tutorial.
  375. </li>
  376. <li>
  377. I can't remember that. I used to use planner-mode. When someone
  378. mentioned org-mode on that mailing list, I decided to have a try.
  379. </li>
  380. <li>
  381. 2006-03 &ndash; via your (Charles Cave) posting of 2006-03-10 to Getting Things Done
  382. yahoogroup.
  383. </li>
  384. <li>
  385. Around march 2006?
  386. </li>
  387. <li>
  388. Dunno. A while ago.
  389. </li>
  390. <li>
  391. 2006 found out indirectly from the Planner mode or maybe Emacs Wiki
  392. </li>
  393. <li>
  394. 2006/06 Emacs Wiki
  395. </li>
  396. </ul></div>
  397. <div class="outline-2">
  398. <h2 id="sec-5">4. What are your main uses of org-mode?</h2>
  399. <ul>
  400. <li>
  401. daily task planing, private and at work documenting know-hows,
  402. collecting informations (web searches etc.), contacts
  403. </li>
  404. <li>
  405. i plan to use it for GTD and (maybe) as replacement for LyX as
  406. general writing tool (via LaTeX export)
  407. </li>
  408. <li>
  409. Project planning, task management
  410. </li>
  411. <li>
  412. todo list / scheduler
  413. </li>
  414. <li>
  415. TODO list management
  416. </li>
  417. <li>
  418. Task list and note taking
  419. </li>
  420. <li>
  421. Todo-list administration - Time tracking - Creating outlines
  422. </li>
  423. <li>
  424. write lists to keep track of projects and infomation
  425. </li>
  426. <li>
  427. I mostly use it as an extended version of outline mode, as well as
  428. the agenda mode. Managing TODO lists and the like. I also really
  429. like the integration with remember mode.
  430. </li>
  431. <li>
  432. TODO list, calendar/appointment app, note-taking, "digital junk
  433. drawer" a la Yojimbo, minor mode for drafting documents,
  434. org-publish.el, org-blog.el
  435. </li>
  436. <li>
  437. Planning and taking notes (with remember mode.)
  438. </li>
  439. <li>
  440. TODO lists (GTD methodology) and diary
  441. </li>
  442. <li>
  443. Planning, project, time and task tracking.
  444. </li>
  445. <li>
  446. GTD system at home
  447. </li>
  448. <li>
  449. planning
  450. </li>
  451. <li>
  452. todo-lists
  453. </li>
  454. <li>
  455. Maintaining a GTD system for personal organization, tracking time
  456. for work reporting and billing.
  457. </li>
  458. <li>
  459. Organizing my tasks and plans at work. Trying to implement GTD with
  460. it.
  461. </li>
  462. <li>
  463. Reporting (org-outline/exporter!), GTD
  464. </li>
  465. <li>
  466. GTD, weekly planner
  467. </li>
  468. <li>
  469. Managing software development todo lists
  470. </li>
  471. <li>
  472. Agenda, todo tracking, lecture notes, blogging
  473. </li>
  474. <li>
  475. TODO list
  476. </li>
  477. <li>
  478. 1) Maintaining my personal lists of projects and tasks 2)
  479. Maintaining a "wiki" of reference material (org-mode doc that links
  480. to external files and URLs) 3) Maintaining an archive of completed
  481. projects 4) Keeping track of my agenda 5) Outlining and
  482. brainstorming 6) Organizing journal entries
  483. </li>
  484. <li>
  485. Personal task lists.
  486. </li>
  487. <li>
  488. daily planning
  489. </li>
  490. <li>
  491. Organizing and managing projects
  492. </li>
  493. <li>
  494. gtd - project management - generating htmls - minutes, documentation
  495. </li>
  496. <li>
  497. notes, todo-lists, planner
  498. </li>
  499. <li>
  500. Agenda (GTD) Notes keeping Publishing tool
  501. </li>
  502. <li>
  503. Slowly it is becoming my desktop. I write, use it for email
  504. composition, technical documentation. Slowly getting into planning,
  505. agenda etc.
  506. </li>
  507. <li>
  508. Project planning and task tracking.
  509. </li>
  510. <li>
  511. keeping track of things to do.
  512. </li>
  513. <li>
  514. TODO and org-table
  515. </li>
  516. <li>
  517. Running my work and home todo lists and notes, but progressively
  518. more and more using it for everything.
  519. </li>
  520. <li>
  521. TODO list and meeting minutes
  522. </li>
  523. <li>
  524. Task/Todo List information list some local hacks for finance
  525. </li>
  526. <li>
  527. todo lists and knowledge base
  528. </li>
  529. <li>
  530. Task management (TODO lists) * Note taking * Export/Publish (e.g.,
  531. publish notes to website) * Personal web pages (via org-publish)
  532. </li>
  533. <li>
  534. I use orgtbl-mode most of the time in muse files, that's how I came
  535. into contact with org-mode. I use it for writing (software)
  536. documentation, (work related) project planning, and measuring the
  537. time I work on projects.
  538. </li>
  539. <li>
  540. planning my TODO list and more recently my agenda GTD style
  541. </li>
  542. <li>
  543. Timeplanning, Timekeeping, Todo/Reminder
  544. </li>
  545. <li>
  546. replacement for time management system (todos, project organisation,
  547. schedules) replacement for spreadsheet helper in LaTeX modes
  548. (orgtbl-mode)
  549. </li>
  550. <li>
  551. 1.) Note taking: web links, links to lines of code I'm working on,
  552. bibtex entries. 2.) Brainstorming. When I'm trying to figure out how
  553. to do something, I often fire up org-mode, dump a bunch of random
  554. thoughts into it, and then organize it into something that makes
  555. sense. 3.) Experiment logging. I use table node to store pretty much
  556. all the results I've accumulated for my PhD thesis. 4.) TODO
  557. lists. I thought I'd use the GTD capabilities on org-mode but can't
  558. force myself to do it. But still, for little projects, I use the
  559. TODO lists.
  560. </li>
  561. <li>
  562. Action items Notes and lists Tables of passwords Publishing website
  563. </li>
  564. <li>
  565. maintain my thoughts, experimental results and agenda
  566. </li>
  567. <li>
  568. As a GTD tool to keep all aspects of my life organized.
  569. </li>
  570. <li>
  571. Lists GTD
  572. </li>
  573. <li>
  574. Just getting used to it. Try to organize primarily work stuff, maybe
  575. later will get into private things.
  576. </li>
  577. <li>
  578. note taking, managing todo's, keeping track of time spent on a
  579. project and making tables.
  580. </li>
  581. <li>
  582. Everything! :-) + keeping notes, + maintaining TODO lists +
  583. exploiting the Agenda facilities (wow!) + doing project planning +
  584. writing text and exporting in HTML + a 'database' for experiments
  585. data (I'm "implementing" it (wow, wow!)
  586. </li>
  587. <li>
  588. Task list/agenda/calendar some "filing" of data, storage of links to
  589. file system and web
  590. </li>
  591. <li>
  592. Note taking for courses
  593. </li>
  594. <li>
  595. Learn more about organizing tasks - Trying to substitute little
  596. papers with appointments - Publish works (thesis, articles, web
  597. pages, &hellip;) - Support a bit the process of writing an article
  598. (TODOs, deadlines, sections, &hellip;)
  599. </li>
  600. <li>
  601. documentation todo list management complete daily work organisation
  602. private and at work planing of schedules for church and sports
  603. cr�éate customer visit protocols (html for colleagues) I have access
  604. to my org files via svn world-wide
  605. </li>
  606. <li>
  607. all aspects of GTD except calendar
  608. </li>
  609. <li>
  610. Outlining and Organising.
  611. </li>
  612. <li>
  613. Day to day planning. Constantly switching between gtd and John
  614. Wiegly's setup to find out what suits me best.
  615. </li>
  616. <li>
  617. Todo List management. Task Scheduling. Note taking. Blogging
  618. (Blorg). Simple Bug Tracking.
  619. </li>
  620. <li>
  621. Organizing my work.
  622. </li>
  623. <li>
  624. Managing all my projects and todo lists using GTD, and managing my
  625. diary/calendar. Basically, I use it to manage my life - home, work,
  626. social etc. Also use it for hierarchical editing of files etc, but
  627. that is secondary.
  628. </li>
  629. <li>
  630. day planner (in agenda view) - generation of hipsterPDA - easy
  631. folding documentation tool (write text docu, use folding to hide
  632. sections I'm not working on currently, and finally generate html or
  633. LaTeX
  634. </li>
  635. <li>
  636. GTD / Agenda
  637. </li>
  638. <li>
  639. I organize all my projects and appointments with org.
  640. </li>
  641. <li>
  642. Mainly todos/tasks planning and follow up
  643. </li>
  644. <li>
  645. I use it to keep track of articles I have to write for clients (I'm
  646. a journalist). I keep a page per client. I also use it to keep notes
  647. on personal stuff, such as sport activities, todo things around the
  648. house, garden and so on
  649. </li>
  650. <li>
  651. advanced todo list, reading diary, simple HTML authoring.
  652. </li>
  653. <li>
  654. Project management
  655. </li>
  656. <li>
  657. note taking, task management, document creation, webpage publishing
  658. </li>
  659. <li>
  660. task management, notes about work and home projects, regular
  661. journaling &ndash; the list of things is expanding as I spend more and
  662. more time in emacs/org.
  663. </li>
  664. <li>
  665. Project planning, scheduling. Information
  666. gathering. Wishlists. Outlines. Todo lists (checkboxes). Data
  667. munging (tables) Review planning (outline w/ links)
  668. </li>
  669. <li>
  670. For GTD and basic word processing
  671. </li>
  672. <li>
  673. Projects, Notes, Memorial days etc.
  674. </li>
  675. <li>
  676. single file for everything
  677. </li>
  678. <li>
  679. Amassing and sorting to-dos and reference information. (Recovering
  680. from mild brain injury in 2005 that affected ability to categorize
  681. and prioritize, need mechanical aids!)
  682. </li>
  683. <li>
  684. Handling notes. Displaying the calendar. Use the agenda view to
  685. display notes.
  686. </li>
  687. <li>
  688. Outlining and providing group TODO lists with explanations.
  689. </li>
  690. <li>
  691. To Do List and Project Tracking Writing articles for export to HTML
  692. </li>
  693. <li>
  694. Note taking, task management
  695. </li>
  696. </ul></div>
  697. <div class="outline-2">
  698. <h2 id="sec-6">5. New features and product maturity?</h2>
  699. <p>
  700. Original question:
  701. </p>
  702. <p>
  703. What new features (if any) would you like to see in org-mode or do you
  704. think the product has reached maturity?
  705. </p>
  706. <ul>
  707. <li>
  708. case sensitive search in tag completition - multilingual day name
  709. input product has reached maturity in my opinion
  710. </li>
  711. <li>
  712. nothing (for now)
  713. </li>
  714. <li>
  715. A way to make it more Gnome friendly would be nice. In the case that
  716. you don't have emacs started, you lose your ideas until you can note
  717. them down.
  718. </li>
  719. <li>
  720. I still haven't learnt enough to fully customize my environment.
  721. </li>
  722. <li>
  723. Nothing specific, but I love the current state of development.
  724. </li>
  725. <li>
  726. Syncing todos to other devices such as cellphones and palms, I know
  727. it would not be very easy to do but would be extremely useful
  728. </li>
  729. <li>
  730. No idea, sorry. I think it has enough features at present that seems
  731. a bit intimidating, really. (Minor quibble &ndash; I changed some of the
  732. keybindings. I prefer M-left/right to hide/show subtrees, rather
  733. than cycling with tab, and use # instead of * for outline
  734. levels. This is mostly habits from a "todo-mode" used on emacs
  735. in-house where I work.)
  736. </li>
  737. <li>
  738. I'm on the lookout for a cell phone that runs Emacs, but&hellip; I haven't
  739. found any mechanisms for remotely adding/editing timestamps,
  740. changing the state of TODO items, etc. Neither have I found a way to
  741. trigger reminder sounds, e-mails, phone calls, or IM messages. I'm
  742. not sure about the best way to approach "mobile org-mode"&hellip; A
  743. web-interface like Webjimbo? More robust import/export/sync to iCal
  744. or GData? If we can find a way to usefully sync org-mode with mobile
  745. devices, it'll be just about perfect.
  746. </li>
  747. <li>
  748. Current features are enough for me.
  749. </li>
  750. <li>
  751. It is certainly mature. However I would also like to be able to use
  752. it as a wiki and general-purpose document authoring/publishing
  753. tool. In an ideal (and possibly unrealistic) world I would love to
  754. see unification with muse-mode. To what extent is this possible?
  755. </li>
  756. <li>
  757. I am still too new to it to comment on this.
  758. </li>
  759. <li>
  760. It's quite mature and I surely don't master it. What I'd like to see
  761. is easier manipulation of the agenda export.
  762. </li>
  763. <li>
  764. Compatibility with other wiki syntax (importer or exporter)
  765. </li>
  766. <li>
  767. too soon to know
  768. </li>
  769. <li>
  770. Basically mature; I'd like to see refinement within the current
  771. feature set.
  772. </li>
  773. <li>
  774. You can always add new features! I would like to see an easy way to
  775. tell how old my entries are. I would like to be able to derive a
  776. task order based on importance and age (for tasks that don't have a
  777. deadline but must be completed eventually). Also I would like to see
  778. it integrated with other tools. I think a MindMap converter (for
  779. FreeMind) would be cool - although it probably could be an external
  780. script.
  781. </li>
  782. <li>
  783. Export to WordprocessingML would be perfect. Currently I export to
  784. HTML and read the reports into Word, saving them as *.doc. But you
  785. loose some features and details doing this.
  786. </li>
  787. <li>
  788. Integration out-of-the-box with remote calendar systems like Google
  789. Calendar
  790. </li>
  791. <li>
  792. Close to maturity. Some new features would be nice, but not terribly
  793. important: Keeping root to leaf tree structure when archiving part
  794. of a subtree. Simple dependent todos (i.e. dependent todo moves into
  795. "NEXT" state when previous todo is marked "DONE"). Exporting entries
  796. in HTML in monospaced font by default (i.e. without specially
  797. marking individual entries). Auto-sorting of entries within a single
  798. parent node (e.g. when a node is marked "DONE", move it lower in the
  799. parent's list of todos). Integration with project management
  800. software.
  801. </li>
  802. <li>
  803. Some kind of resolution to the line wrapping issue with headlines.
  804. </li>
  805. <li>
  806. Simpler ways of doing things (perhaps with mouse commands)
  807. </li>
  808. <li>
  809. I'd say it's pretty close to maturity. I haven't used most of the
  810. more recently-added advanced features.
  811. </li>
  812. <li>
  813. I'd like easier customization of "workflow" steps that would make it
  814. easier to update states and record notes related to state changes
  815. (and skip these notes when the state transitions are obvious in
  816. nature).
  817. </li>
  818. <li>
  819. No immediate demands. I do not think the project has reached
  820. maturity.
  821. </li>
  822. <li>
  823. This product has reached maturity since long! In my point of view
  824. this is. Excellent work!
  825. </li>
  826. <li>
  827. depending tasks - integrated pdf-generation (especially for
  828. windows) - visualisation for tasks (like gantt) - a minor mode for
  829. contacts like vcard.el
  830. </li>
  831. <li>
  832. I think it reached maturity. It would be nice to have some minor
  833. things, like a posibility to insert todo's right inside your project
  834. source code and then have them added in agenda automatically.
  835. </li>
  836. <li>
  837. Instead of new features, I'd much prefer keeping XEmacs
  838. compatibility
  839. </li>
  840. <li>
  841. Wishlist - Adding arbitrary (user specified) relations between nodes
  842. with a specific relation name. for example, x &lt;part of&gt; y; where x
  843. and y are two nodes. - Making the above functionality work between
  844. files - making the above work between nodes published on a
  845. distributed server In the GNU project GNOWSYS, we do this, where it
  846. is a web application. We are now exploring how org mode can be used
  847. as a client to manage the data published in GNOWSYS. Out team would
  848. be more than willing to collaborate, but our team members are all
  849. Python hackers, and use Emacs only for coding
  850. </li>
  851. <li>
  852. I am having trouble keeping up with the many new features of the
  853. last few months!
  854. </li>
  855. <li>
  856. I think it is mature enough for me
  857. </li>
  858. <li>
  859. automatic reminders in Emacs as pop ups?
  860. </li>
  861. <li>
  862. I'm quite content as it is. I guess I could probably think of one or
  863. two things, but I wouldn't want to spoil its power/simplicity
  864. balance.
  865. </li>
  866. <li>
  867. planing times for tasks and compare them to actuel used times (and
  868. also give out a warning if to many hours are planed for one day) -
  869. agenda export to latex - simple project management
  870. </li>
  871. <li>
  872. a gtd framework would be a killer feature!! more visual effects with
  873. overlays However, it's "d�éj�à" a very good work. Thanks.
  874. </li>
  875. <li>
  876. very mature
  877. </li>
  878. <li>
  879. Nearing maturity, but then again, maybe I'm just out of ideas.
  880. </li>
  881. <li>
  882. I would like org-mode (or other parts of it like orgtbl) to become a
  883. minor mode so I can turn it on/off in other buffers (mainly
  884. muse). For example I would love to use todo list editing features in
  885. emails.
  886. </li>
  887. <li>
  888. I don't understant all the features yet :)
  889. </li>
  890. <li>
  891. export facilitie
  892. </li>
  893. <li>
  894. New features, in order of importance to me: 1.) A way to select a
  895. chunk of text in firefox and paste it into org-mode, along with a
  896. nicely formatted URL link. I would use this many times a day. MS
  897. OneNote does this well. 2.) A way to link to email in an IMAP
  898. folder. Preferably, this link would point directly to the email on
  899. the IMAP server. The link should look like all the other links, and
  900. you should be able to just drag it from, say, Thunderbird, into
  901. org-mode, although a Thunderbird keyboard shortcut would be nice. I
  902. would use this every day. 3.) More flexible outline prefixes. You
  903. should be able to make headlines of this type: I. asdlfk i. asdfj
  904. ii. asdlfkj II. &hellip; Or 1. Introduction 1.1 asdfkj 1.2
  905. asdfkl 2. Background &hellip; Emacs hyperbole:
  906. <a href="http://directory.fsf.org/project/hyperbole/">http://directory.fsf.org/project/hyperbole/</a> did this
  907. beautifully. 4.) Internal links search in a way consistent with
  908. emacs search (Ctrl-s). When you click on a link, it should go
  909. towards the end of the buffer for the next match. When there's
  910. nothing towards the end, it should wrap to the top. 5.) Fix the
  911. underline/bold/italic stuff (if that is a new feature) 6.) Better
  912. formatted html table export
  913. </li>
  914. <li>
  915. Better support for working with others.
  916. </li>
  917. <li>
  918. I would like to see different way to view or summarize ageda. Like
  919. progress, next possible todo
  920. </li>
  921. <li>
  922. I think org-mode is quite mature now except there may be still some
  923. bugs in it and some features may need more polish
  924. </li>
  925. <li>
  926. Too novice a user yet to comment
  927. </li>
  928. <li>
  929. can't tell yet.
  930. </li>
  931. <li>
  932. I like to be surprised more than wishing
  933. </li>
  934. <li>
  935. I'd like better integration with calendar mode of
  936. emacs. Specifically, when using the calendar, the command 'i d' to
  937. insert an appointment, the diary file is used. I'd like to set a
  938. headline in my orgmode buffer for that insert, for consistency with
  939. the calendar entries I make by hand while processing my inbox Also,
  940. navigation from agenda to org-file is easy. navigating back is
  941. harder.
  942. </li>
  943. <li>
  944. possibly nested numbered lists: 1. head 1 1.1 sub-head 1 1.2
  945. sub-head 2 Also lettered lists: a. point a b. point b but I'm
  946. already quite satisfied
  947. </li>
  948. <li>
  949. implement all features of muse-mode. Ex: list of pages, backlinks,
  950. following links with Enter, &hellip; - consistent and clear syntax for
  951. formatting text, which doesn't require memorizing use cases or
  952. exceptions (ex: <b>a</b> isn't bold)
  953. </li>
  954. <li>
  955. syncing with my palm would be the greatest need. (syncing with
  956. outlook would do the job as outlook is snced with the palm)
  957. </li>
  958. <li>
  959. mostly small things like an isearch mode that only matches headlines
  960. (and doesn't auto expand), an allout-copy-exposed-to-buffer
  961. equivalent, hipster pda publishing
  962. </li>
  963. <li>
  964. I've too many ideas to write here. The only thing i can think of is
  965. not quite org related. A published bison or antlr grammar, so people
  966. can write org parsers/processors in other languages, and extend its
  967. integration into other systems.
  968. </li>
  969. <li>
  970. Org mode is fairly mature. Only the remaining inconsistencies should
  971. be straightened out.
  972. </li>
  973. <li>
  974. Hard to say, every so often I think of a feature that might be nice
  975. to have. I have a feeling that alternate views (like the agenda) to
  976. allow other ways of exploring your information would be handy, but I
  977. have no concrete ideas yet as to what they might be.
  978. </li>
  979. <li>
  980. Better exporting (for example better LaTeX export).
  981. </li>
  982. <li>
  983. The only thing I need is better integration with mh-e (I suspect it
  984. is already there - just need to find the time to sort it out). Other
  985. than that I am very content!
  986. </li>
  987. <li>
  988. I always wanted to be able to schedule a task for a specific week
  989. (as oposed to a date) - I would like to improve the hipsterPDA
  990. generation (export the agenda view as nice LaTeX, improve the
  991. cal-tex output, etc)
  992. </li>
  993. <li>
  994. Org grows faster than I can learn all those nice features. One
  995. feature I'd love to see was that the HTML export created docs that
  996. could be outlined like in an org buffer. I guess that's possible
  997. with some CSS.
  998. </li>
  999. <li>
  1000. Task dependency for project planing
  1001. </li>
  1002. <li>
  1003. At the moment, I'm still on the learning curve. Org-mode has
  1004. soooooooooo many features I have not even discovered yet. I almost
  1005. daily open the manual pages to see I there is something I can use.
  1006. </li>
  1007. <li>
  1008. Probably, customization of built-in agenda view. But I'd rather see
  1009. org-mode streamlined and cleaned of unnecessary
  1010. complications. Properties should be either integrated more tightly
  1011. to replace tags/priorities/etc, or removed.
  1012. </li>
  1013. <li>
  1014. Looking forward to some of the dependency ideas.
  1015. </li>
  1016. <li>
  1017. Import tasks from .ics files, include .ics files in agenda,
  1018. eventually include remote .ics files in agenda. Would like an
  1019. updated blogging tool that takes advantage of recent developments.
  1020. </li>
  1021. <li>
  1022. I'm working on integration with my email client and web browser --
  1023. it's a slow process because I'm not a programmer, but I'm learning
  1024. bits and pieces about bash shell scripts and grabbing what I can
  1025. from experts already using org.
  1026. </li>
  1027. <li>
  1028. I'd like a way to set project (outline item) dependencies and to
  1029. easily list those projects in dependency order. I could do it now
  1030. with properties, a dynamic block and some elisp. I'd use markup more
  1031. if it were more reliable in the emacs buffer. It might be nice to
  1032. have a mode where rigid outline style indenting is enforced while
  1033. editing outlines and lists. Perhaps as a buffer option or subtree
  1034. property. None of this is necessary or worth calling org-mode
  1035. immature.
  1036. </li>
  1037. <li>
  1038. Not new features. But perhaps splitting org.el into different
  1039. modules: one for outlining, one for doc format (Wiki engine), one
  1040. for GTD
  1041. </li>
  1042. <li>
  1043. block quote text support. like wiki {{{ This is quote text }}}
  1044. Currently only putting ':' at beginning of text or heading.
  1045. </li>
  1046. <li>
  1047. I hope a better archive mechanism using C-c C-x C-c, which could
  1048. keep the structure in my org file.
  1049. </li>
  1050. <li>
  1051. Seems mature; new features always interesting but can add a layer of
  1052. too-many-choices distraction. (See prioritizing problems above ;) )
  1053. </li>
  1054. <li>
  1055. New summary type {%} for progress status. Real comment syntax.
  1056. </li>
  1057. <li>
  1058. I use only a fraction of its features.
  1059. </li>
  1060. <li>
  1061. Mature
  1062. </li>
  1063. </ul></div>
  1064. <div class="outline-2">
  1065. <h2 id="sec-7">6. Additional tutorials, documentation and screencasts would you like?</h2>
  1066. <p>
  1067. Original question:
  1068. Which topics or "how-to" guides would you like to see in the
  1069. documentation or as a tutorial or screencast?
  1070. </p>
  1071. <ul>
  1072. <li>
  1073. none. documentation is excellent
  1074. </li>
  1075. <li>
  1076. how to prepare/export/print GTD file to A7(index cards hPDA (hipster
  1077. PDA) forms
  1078. </li>
  1079. <li>
  1080. Everything should be a screencast for new users.
  1081. </li>
  1082. <li>
  1083. I'd love to see more examples (with code) of how people use org,
  1084. especially for implementing GTD.
  1085. </li>
  1086. <li>
  1087. More detailed information about blogging would be great, especially
  1088. motivation for using org.
  1089. </li>
  1090. <li>
  1091. The manual and refcard usually have me covered. An in-depth
  1092. screencast on table/calc might be nice.
  1093. </li>
  1094. <li>
  1095. More stuff about methodology to use it.
  1096. </li>
  1097. <li>
  1098. Screencasts are most helpful to me. I would like to see material on
  1099. publishing and blogging in particular
  1100. </li>
  1101. <li>
  1102. Project lifecycle. Timesheet reports.
  1103. </li>
  1104. <li>
  1105. Exporting to other formats and customizing that
  1106. </li>
  1107. <li>
  1108. lot of screencast showing new features of org (such as one already
  1109. done)
  1110. </li>
  1111. <li>
  1112. The documentation is actually rather good as it is, haven't found
  1113. anything lacking yet.
  1114. </li>
  1115. <li>
  1116. Integration with remember
  1117. </li>
  1118. <li>
  1119. Integrating org-mode with pine/alpine mailer.
  1120. </li>
  1121. <li>
  1122. Not sure who you want to target. Advanced users are your bread and
  1123. butter and probably are OK. Beginners should get some screencasts
  1124. that describe a common problem and just focuses an how org mode can
  1125. help them. A good example is something like when someone's todo list
  1126. gets too long and complex and they want to split it, but maintain
  1127. connections between items on various lists, or perhaps view a
  1128. chronological list of all items in one location. Org mode is the
  1129. only program I know of the handles this kind of complexity
  1130. gracefully.
  1131. </li>
  1132. <li>
  1133. In depth explanation of using the agenda to its fullest
  1134. </li>
  1135. <li>
  1136. I'd love to see one on setting up column views. A tutorial on
  1137. publishing files would be great. And one about creating custom
  1138. agenda views.
  1139. </li>
  1140. <li>
  1141. Changing the keybindings to make specific state transitions easier
  1142. to enter
  1143. </li>
  1144. <li>
  1145. don't know as of yet &hellip;
  1146. </li>
  1147. <li>
  1148. using the spreadsheet with merged cells, calculation for rows and
  1149. columns - showing the true meaning of the properties stuff - over
  1150. all there should be examples - i really dislike the manual form
  1151. orgmode.org because it is technical oriented not for the simple
  1152. user - more howtos for gtd -&gt; learning from each other
  1153. </li>
  1154. <li>
  1155. Different usages of org-mode. From GTD to other ways &hellip;
  1156. </li>
  1157. <li>
  1158. I find the manual well written and sufficient.
  1159. </li>
  1160. <li>
  1161. Use of drawers and properties.
  1162. </li>
  1163. <li>
  1164. HOw to organize multiple projects; auto-archival.
  1165. </li>
  1166. <li>
  1167. org spreadsheet
  1168. </li>
  1169. <li>
  1170. Since Org-mode is (to me) a collection of "orthogonal" features, but
  1171. doesn't much impose structure, I'd be interested in seeing how
  1172. others organise their data and "bring it to life" with the Org-mode
  1173. features.
  1174. </li>
  1175. <li>
  1176. none
  1177. </li>
  1178. <li>
  1179. more documentation for org's lisp functions (in fact more examples
  1180. with org's lisp funtions!!)
  1181. </li>
  1182. <li>
  1183. remember mode integration
  1184. </li>
  1185. <li>
  1186. I prefer the documentation and experimentation. Need drives my
  1187. learning.
  1188. </li>
  1189. <li>
  1190. I don't have any preferences.
  1191. </li>
  1192. <li>
  1193. Can't think of any
  1194. </li>
  1195. <li>
  1196. I think a new user would benefit from a screencast showing basic
  1197. hierarchy creation and navigation
  1198. </li>
  1199. <li>
  1200. Remember Practical uses of properties
  1201. </li>
  1202. <li>
  1203. I would like to see more people to share their ways of using org
  1204. model
  1205. </li>
  1206. <li>
  1207. The documentation is already very good and it seems the manual is
  1208. never out of sync from the latest org-mode version. I found the
  1209. mailing list is the best source of "how-to" as people's individual
  1210. situations are so much different.
  1211. </li>
  1212. <li>
  1213. more of org for gtd
  1214. </li>
  1215. <li>
  1216. how to deal with the calendar and insert dates quickly - two-way
  1217. backends for groupware-like behavior - calender functionality for
  1218. scheduled events (receive popups or emails or sms or the like) -
  1219. probably more but it's too early to say
  1220. </li>
  1221. <li>
  1222. drawers + table calculations
  1223. </li>
  1224. <li>
  1225. Using org-mode as a calendar/planner. Perhaps a best practice around
  1226. where date- and time-stamps belong (in the headline? in a SCHEDULED:
  1227. property? DEADLINE: property?) Also, it would be helpful to be shown
  1228. the best practices around Categories (since they show up so
  1229. prominently in the agenda) I wanted them to be like David Allen's
  1230. "Contexts", but that's hard for me to manage.
  1231. </li>
  1232. <li>
  1233. All the variables that you must configure to be able to write and
  1234. export an article successfully and without unexpected results - How
  1235. to move from {muse,kwiki,reST,planner,&hellip;} to org-mode: how to adapt
  1236. the syntax, &hellip;
  1237. </li>
  1238. <li>
  1239. examples of how to columns view
  1240. </li>
  1241. <li>
  1242. real examples of different ways of using org-mode
  1243. </li>
  1244. <li>
  1245. Scope projects? integrate Org into a software development
  1246. process/project? Handle &lt;not at computer&gt; org interactions?
  1247. </li>
  1248. <li>
  1249. Daily use of agenda
  1250. </li>
  1251. <li>
  1252. I'm still not familiar with the more advanced features of org-mode,
  1253. so I'm keen to see these areas explored in tutorials and guides.
  1254. </li>
  1255. <li>
  1256. The spreadsheet.
  1257. </li>
  1258. <li>
  1259. None that I would be interested in, although I accept that new users
  1260. would benefit from them.
  1261. </li>
  1262. <li>
  1263. I think column-view is a great feature. Bastiens tutorial is good,
  1264. but I'm thinking a tutorial focused more on the use case as opposed
  1265. to the config option might be better. If I find time :-)
  1266. </li>
  1267. <li>
  1268. I don't know if it's just me, but currently I make no use of
  1269. tags. So any how-to or screencasts of how to use categories and tags
  1270. together in a senseful way would be nice. Most usages of tags I've
  1271. seen so far where tags like :phonecall: or :appoitment:, but when I
  1272. have a TODO "Call Jim" or "Meet Jim" those are superluous&hellip;
  1273. </li>
  1274. <li>
  1275. I would welcome such how-to's and offer to help. The drawback of
  1276. screencasts is they take a long time, and there is no way a viewer
  1277. can tell it will be usefull to sit it all out. A guide giving
  1278. examples (and using short screencasts, if necessary) gives the
  1279. reader an overview, he/she can skip sections and browse to a
  1280. chapter/paragraph deemed usefull. I would like to learn howto tweak
  1281. my custom built todo-lists so that some of the statuses show up in
  1282. the agenda, and others don't. Example WRITE should be on the agenda,
  1283. but INVOICE not really. But the intermediate VERIFY should.
  1284. </li>
  1285. <li>
  1286. More on GTD. Agenda customization.
  1287. </li>
  1288. <li>
  1289. More on column mode and new uses of properties.
  1290. </li>
  1291. <li>
  1292. I know there are books and howtos about lisp, but it would be great
  1293. to see some smaller howtos that are specific to org applications,
  1294. and code samples.
  1295. </li>
  1296. <li>
  1297. The remember mode stuff scares me. I need to take some time learn
  1298. it. I also know agenda can do a lot more than I do with it. I'd like
  1299. to see screen shots of of column mode to drool over since I'm not
  1300. running emacs 22 yet.
  1301. </li>
  1302. <li>
  1303. can't thing of any
  1304. </li>
  1305. <li>
  1306. Spreadsheet examples.
  1307. </li>
  1308. <li>
  1309. how-to setup a gtd style system is always my favorite.
  1310. </li>
  1311. <li>
  1312. Some experienced users' detailed explication of pros and cons of the
  1313. newer TMTOWTDI (There's More Than One Way To Do It) choices like
  1314. archiving methods, task states, etc. leading to &ndash; you
  1315. guessed it &ndash; prioritizing problems
  1316. </li>
  1317. <li>
  1318. Building complex agenda views.
  1319. </li>
  1320. <li>
  1321. Dunno.
  1322. </li>
  1323. <li>
  1324. Setting up a publishing/blog environment
  1325. </li>
  1326. </ul></div>
  1327. <div class="outline-2">
  1328. <h2 id="sec-8">7. Which features of org-mode do you use? (Spreadsheet, LaTeX, HTML, Remember, etc)</h2>
  1329. <ul>
  1330. <li>
  1331. Document Structure, Tables, Spreadsheet, Hyperlinks, TODO items,
  1332. Tags, Properties and Columns, Dates and Times, (Custom) Agenda Views
  1333. </li>
  1334. <li>
  1335. LaTeX, Remember
  1336. </li>
  1337. <li>
  1338. Use the agenda/tags views heavily. Tables, but not really
  1339. spreadsheets.
  1340. </li>
  1341. <li>
  1342. Rememeber
  1343. </li>
  1344. <li>
  1345. remember, agenda views.
  1346. </li>
  1347. <li>
  1348. I'm sure I will use everything at some point. I've finally started
  1349. using remember recently, about to start using HTML for blogging I
  1350. think, and can imaging using LaTeX to print index cards even.
  1351. </li>
  1352. <li>
  1353. Todo-list, agenda - remember
  1354. </li>
  1355. <li>
  1356. Remember, agenda, I learned to use the tags / priorities, but they
  1357. don't seem to fit my style of use.
  1358. </li>
  1359. <li>
  1360. Publish to HTML and LaTeX (although I'd prefer ConTeXt), dynamic
  1361. blocks, orgstruct minor mode, and hyperlinks. I'm not sure if they
  1362. count as a "feature", but I use deadlines, scheduling, and repeated
  1363. tasks <b>a lot</b>.
  1364. </li>
  1365. <li>
  1366. remember, clock summary.
  1367. </li>
  1368. <li>
  1369. TODO keywords, tags, timestamps (inc. deadlines/scheduling),
  1370. priorities, export to HTML/ics, tables, archiving, remember, custom
  1371. agenda commands
  1372. </li>
  1373. <li>
  1374. Still exploring.. starting out with fundamentals as described in
  1375. John Weigly's excellent write-up.
  1376. </li>
  1377. <li>
  1378. HTML, Remember
  1379. </li>
  1380. <li>
  1381. Basic planning, some html export, Wannt to use more features of org
  1382. but lack of time
  1383. </li>
  1384. <li>
  1385. Remember, html
  1386. </li>
  1387. <li>
  1388. Much use of Remember, agenda, agenda todo lists. Some use of HTML
  1389. and LaTeX. A little use of spreadsheet.
  1390. </li>
  1391. <li>
  1392. Starting to use spreadsheets and tables. I use the [/] feature to
  1393. keep track of task counts a lot. I like the "radio" links too. Don't
  1394. use the others much.
  1395. </li>
  1396. <li>
  1397. Export2HTML, Remember, Agenda
  1398. </li>
  1399. <li>
  1400. Remember, LaTex, ical export, Agenda and Diary integration
  1401. </li>
  1402. <li>
  1403. HTML. My usage is pretty basic.
  1404. </li>
  1405. <li>
  1406. LaTeX, HTML, Agenda, diary integration, Todo, outlining like crazy
  1407. </li>
  1408. <li>
  1409. Spreadsheet (for tables)
  1410. </li>
  1411. <li>
  1412. I use Remember, HTML, agenda views, hyperlinks, time-tracking,
  1413. timestamps, and tags. I occasionally use tables, and plan on using
  1414. the PROPERTIES drawer in the future. I don't currently use any
  1415. advanced table formulas or column view, but I'm glad they're there.
  1416. </li>
  1417. <li>
  1418. Remember, basic task lists, and mostly the Agenda views.
  1419. </li>
  1420. <li>
  1421. LaTex, HTML, Remember, Cal, diary
  1422. </li>
  1423. <li>
  1424. all
  1425. </li>
  1426. <li>
  1427. agenda - html - spreadsheet
  1428. </li>
  1429. <li>
  1430. Spreadsheet, remember, time logger and outlines.
  1431. </li>
  1432. <li>
  1433. Document structure + hyperlinks, agenda + remember, exporting and
  1434. publishing
  1435. </li>
  1436. <li>
  1437. writing documents, LaTeX, HTML.
  1438. </li>
  1439. <li>
  1440. Remember; tables.
  1441. </li>
  1442. <li>
  1443. Remember, and the todo features.
  1444. </li>
  1445. <li>
  1446. simple to do listing
  1447. </li>
  1448. <li>
  1449. A lot: Outlines, Tables, Spreadsheets, TODOs, Links, Tags,
  1450. Timestamps, Clocking Time. A little: Agenda views, Properties and
  1451. Columns Not at all: LaTeX, HTML, Remember I plan to increase my
  1452. usage of all the above, apart from LaTeX, which I'll probably never
  1453. use.
  1454. </li>
  1455. <li>
  1456. Remember
  1457. </li>
  1458. <li>
  1459. Remember, Latex, spreadsheet (with calc)
  1460. </li>
  1461. <li>
  1462. just to basic features
  1463. </li>
  1464. <li>
  1465. * TODO's, including ** Scheduling ** Deadlines ** Archiving (both
  1466. tag and function) * Remember * LaTeX * export/HTML * Tables *
  1467. org-publish * Agendas
  1468. </li>
  1469. <li>
  1470. spreadsheet, HTML
  1471. </li>
  1472. <li>
  1473. remember, agenda, priority
  1474. </li>
  1475. <li>
  1476. Remember
  1477. </li>
  1478. <li>
  1479. all
  1480. </li>
  1481. <li>
  1482. Basic outlining with tons of links of most types allowed. * Tables *
  1483. HTML export * TODO's
  1484. </li>
  1485. <li>
  1486. Tables, HTML, Remember
  1487. </li>
  1488. <li>
  1489. table, agenda, remember
  1490. </li>
  1491. <li>
  1492. Probably the question is bettered asked with "which features of
  1493. org-mode do you not use?" :-) It seems I have almost used everything
  1494. except properties and drawers. Although I did not go into depth of
  1495. many of them, like I never used a formula in the built in org-mode
  1496. table.
  1497. </li>
  1498. <li>
  1499. tags, todos, links, timestamps
  1500. </li>
  1501. <li>
  1502. remember, agenda
  1503. </li>
  1504. <li>
  1505. tables, HTML, ToDo stuff/agenda, column mode, clock features,
  1506. categories
  1507. </li>
  1508. <li>
  1509. Agenda, time tracking, HTML, latex, spreadsheet
  1510. agenda export to ics (iCalendar) file TODO proper- ty drawers
  1511. </li>
  1512. <li>
  1513. headings, tags, links, drawers &amp; properties, table (&amp; occasionally
  1514. spreadsheet), remember, todo's
  1515. </li>
  1516. <li>
  1517. outlining - basic spreadsheet - org-export-as-latex - HTML -
  1518. org-publish - marking TODO/DONE (or equivalents) - agenda
  1519. </li>
  1520. <li>
  1521. Remember HTML
  1522. </li>
  1523. <li>
  1524. HTML, Remember, custom agenda views, tags matches, custom keyword
  1525. states, diary integration, recurring tasks, scheduling and
  1526. deadlines, org-nnml, hyperlinks, categories
  1527. </li>
  1528. <li>
  1529. Agenda, Remember, Tags, Ascii Export, Tables, Outlining
  1530. </li>
  1531. <li>
  1532. Spreadsheet
  1533. </li>
  1534. <li>
  1535. sometimes Spreadsheet remember extensively LaTeX/Html export
  1536. </li>
  1537. <li>
  1538. Remember, Blorg, org-publish, Tables, Lists, Checkboxes, TODO
  1539. sequences.
  1540. </li>
  1541. <li>
  1542. LaTeX, html, remember, spreadsheet
  1543. </li>
  1544. <li>
  1545. Tags, Remember, Diary integration, Logging, sometimes spreadsheet
  1546. usage.
  1547. </li>
  1548. <li>
  1549. folding, TODOs, Agenda view, HTML generation, column-view
  1550. </li>
  1551. <li>
  1552. Spreadsheet, HTML, Remember, fast selection of TODO keywords, links
  1553. to everywhere, extended timestamps and intervals
  1554. </li>
  1555. <li>
  1556. Spreadsheet, HTML
  1557. </li>
  1558. <li>
  1559. I use remember very often. I have not really touched the
  1560. spreadsheet, don't need to. I use the deadline feature all the time
  1561. and the [/] todo list type. I have experimented with export to html,
  1562. in order to transport stuff to a very smart smart phone (iphone) but
  1563. that requires more tweaking on my side.
  1564. </li>
  1565. <li>
  1566. todo and logging state changes, tags, priorities, hyperlinks,
  1567. remember, timestamps, agenda, export to HTML.
  1568. </li>
  1569. <li>
  1570. Folding, spreadsheet, column mode, properties, schedule/agenda,
  1571. org-remember, html export, todo, tags
  1572. </li>
  1573. <li>
  1574. I use everything except radio stuff and dynamic blocks, and I think
  1575. I will use those soon. Don't use XOXO export either, I guess.
  1576. </li>
  1577. <li>
  1578. remember, tables, tasks, tags, archiving, calendar, html export, and
  1579. I'm learning a bit about LaTeX.
  1580. </li>
  1581. <li>
  1582. In no particular order: tables, plain list folding, checkboxes and
  1583. checkbox counting [/], multiple todo sequences, tags, properties,
  1584. inactive dates, elisp formulas, html export, text export, in-buffer
  1585. markups (*/_), subtree in indirect buffer, links
  1586. </li>
  1587. <li>
  1588. latex, html, remember
  1589. </li>
  1590. <li>
  1591. spreadsheet, remember, agenda, outline, property, column view
  1592. </li>
  1593. <li>
  1594. remember, archive, appointment, diary, timeclock
  1595. </li>
  1596. <li>
  1597. Remember for fast to-do adds; use tables occasionally but mostly use
  1598. dedicated spreadsheet s/w for such functions. Hope to learn LaTeX at
  1599. some point.
  1600. </li>
  1601. <li>
  1602. Agenda views Table editing Properties drawers HTML export LaTeX
  1603. export
  1604. </li>
  1605. <li>
  1606. HTML. Remember. Tables.
  1607. </li>
  1608. <li>
  1609. Mainly time stamps, agendas and HTML export
  1610. </li>
  1611. <li>
  1612. LaTeX, Spreadsheet, Remember
  1613. </li>
  1614. </ul></div>
  1615. <div class="outline-2">
  1616. <h2 id="sec-9">8. Your age</h2>
  1617. <table border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="groups" frame="hsides">
  1618. <col align="left"></col><col align="right"></col><col align="left"></col>
  1619. <thead>
  1620. <tr><th>Age range</th><th>N</th><th>bar</th></tr>
  1621. </thead>
  1622. <tbody>
  1623. <tr><td>16 - 20</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr>
  1624. <tr><td>21 - 25</td><td>5</td><td>*****</td></tr>
  1625. <tr><td>26 - 30</td><td>15</td><td>***************</td></tr>
  1626. <tr><td>31 - 35</td><td>21</td><td>*********************</td></tr>
  1627. <tr><td>36 - 40</td><td>11</td><td>***********</td></tr>
  1628. <tr><td>41 - 45</td><td>13</td><td>*************</td></tr>
  1629. <tr><td>46 - 50</td><td>3</td><td>***</td></tr>
  1630. <tr><td>51 - 55</td><td>3</td><td>***</td></tr>
  1631. <tr><td>56 - 60</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr>
  1632. </tbody>
  1633. </table>
  1634. </div>
  1635. <div class="outline-2">
  1636. <h2 id="sec-10">9. Which country do you live in?</h2>
  1637. <table border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="groups" frame="hsides">
  1638. <col align="left"></col><col align="right"></col><col align="left"></col>
  1639. <thead>
  1640. <tr><th>Country</th><th>N</th><th>bar</th></tr>
  1641. </thead>
  1642. <tbody>
  1643. <tr><td>Australia</td><td>3</td><td>***</td></tr>
  1644. <tr><td>Canada</td><td>2</td><td>**</td></tr>
  1645. <tr><td>China</td><td>2</td><td>**</td></tr>
  1646. <tr><td>Croatia</td><td>2</td><td>*</td></tr>
  1647. <tr><td>France</td><td>5</td><td>*****</td></tr>
  1648. <tr><td>Germany</td><td>17</td><td>*****************</td></tr>
  1649. <tr><td>Hungary</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  1650. <tr><td>Iceland</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  1651. <tr><td>India</td><td>4</td><td>****</td></tr>
  1652. <tr><td>Italy</td><td>2</td><td>**</td></tr>
  1653. <tr><td>Netherlands</td><td>3</td><td>***</td></tr>
  1654. <tr><td>New Zealand</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  1655. <tr><td>Norway</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  1656. <tr><td>Pakistan</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  1657. <tr><td>Romania</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  1658. <tr><td>Russia</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  1659. <tr><td>Scotland</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  1660. <tr><td>Slovenia</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  1661. <tr><td>Spain</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  1662. <tr><td>Sweden</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  1663. <tr><td>Switzerland</td><td>1</td><td>*</td></tr>
  1664. <tr><td>UK</td><td>7</td><td>*******</td></tr>
  1665. <tr><td>USA</td><td>23</td><td>***********************</td></tr>
  1666. </tbody>
  1667. </table>
  1668. </div>
  1669. <div class="outline-2">
  1670. <h2 id="sec-11">10. Are there any other comments you would like to make about org-mode?</h2>
  1671. <ul>
  1672. <li>
  1673. Thanks for this great software, I've waited for years for such a
  1674. tool. I've wrote some tools around org in Perl, hopefully I'll find
  1675. some time to contribute. Thanx a lot
  1676. </li>
  1677. <li>
  1678. Great tool to stay even longer in emacs OS :-)
  1679. </li>
  1680. <li>
  1681. Thanks!
  1682. </li>
  1683. <li>
  1684. Great App, Great Support, Great Community
  1685. </li>
  1686. <li>
  1687. org-mode is all-the-way cool.
  1688. </li>
  1689. <li>
  1690. With the possible exception of Emacs itself, org-mode is my very
  1691. favorite bit of software. It has inspired me to learn LISP, so I'm
  1692. looking forward to contributing in the near future.
  1693. </li>
  1694. <li>
  1695. It's fantastic and the maintainership and community are both second
  1696. to none!
  1697. </li>
  1698. <li>
  1699. Later. :)
  1700. </li>
  1701. <li>
  1702. Great mode and very useful. Thanks a lot for your effort and time!
  1703. </li>
  1704. <li>
  1705. Great Work ! Felicitation to its author
  1706. </li>
  1707. <li>
  1708. It's indispensable for my current work and lifestyle.
  1709. </li>
  1710. <li>
  1711. It is a great package, thanks for making it available and keeping
  1712. it alive!
  1713. </li>
  1714. <li>
  1715. Thanks for the org-mode. I just love it! Do all my personal and job
  1716. planning with it!
  1717. </li>
  1718. <li>
  1719. Great tool, thanks thanks thanks :)
  1720. </li>
  1721. <li>
  1722. It's fantastic &ndash; thanks for the great tool. I'm getting older and
  1723. it's the only way I can "remember" everything. It's not just a great
  1724. todo list manager, but I use it to document almost everything about
  1725. my job (e.g. my original intentions about a
  1726. project/implementation). I can bury a TODO right down in the place
  1727. where I have most of the surrounding documentation.
  1728. </li>
  1729. <li>
  1730. I cannot overstate how valuable this mode is. It single handedly has
  1731. the potential to make laypeople aware of Emacs. Thanks so much for
  1732. working on it!
  1733. </li>
  1734. <li>
  1735. Love it. Love it. Love it. Carsten is awesome.
  1736. </li>
  1737. <li>
  1738. It's changing very fast, and I'm worried that my muscle memory will
  1739. start to fight against the changes. Still, it's good to see an Emacs
  1740. package with such active interest and support.
  1741. </li>
  1742. <li>
  1743. I'm a happy user. Thanks to Carten and all contributors
  1744. </li>
  1745. <li>
  1746. great guys on the mailinglist, great spirit, excellent product :-)
  1747. </li>
  1748. <li>
  1749. Carsten, many thanks for this great piece of software! Keep it
  1750. simple and usuable - not everybody follows the power user discussion
  1751. in gmane
  1752. </li>
  1753. <li>
  1754. Keep up the great work! :)
  1755. </li>
  1756. <li>
  1757. Thanks to Carsten and to people on emacs-orgmode !!
  1758. </li>
  1759. <li>
  1760. Been a user of GNU Emacs for the last 18years, never seen such a
  1761. fascinating major mode. I like this kind of apps since I work in
  1762. knowledge organization, and would like to contribute in some
  1763. way. Our lab gnowledge.org would like to develop a java applet that
  1764. provides org mode kind of editing. The buffer thus produced will be
  1765. converted into html when the page is being served in the
  1766. background. This will encourage the community to do structured
  1767. documentation. Our lab is now engaged in developing
  1768. beta.selfplatform.eu, where in we would like to provide this
  1769. feature. Do you think, orgmode developers would like to help us or
  1770. contribute in this endeavor. Orgmode can be very useful for
  1771. furthering semantic computing.
  1772. </li>
  1773. <li>
  1774. It is a great product. I does not need to grow. It might risk
  1775. feature creep.
  1776. </li>
  1777. <li>
  1778. Excellent package
  1779. </li>
  1780. <li>
  1781. Thank you, Carsten!
  1782. </li>
  1783. <li>
  1784. Has increased my productivity a lot!
  1785. </li>
  1786. <li>
  1787. Really a great thank to the author "Carsten Dominik", "chapeau" as
  1788. they say in France!!!!
  1789. </li>
  1790. <li>
  1791. Org-mode was relatively immature when I started using it, and I have
  1792. kept with it for 2 simple reasons: 1. The maintainer (Carsten) is
  1793. friendly, fast, accurate, and thorough 2. It works &ndash; it does what
  1794. it claims to do, and does it well
  1795. </li>
  1796. <li>
  1797. Org mode keeps me organized, it's outstanding!
  1798. </li>
  1799. <li>
  1800. hmmh, org-mode is the first thing I start in the morning and the
  1801. last I close in the evening, I guess this tells it all.
  1802. </li>
  1803. <li>
  1804. Org mode has been an incredibly useful tool that is fun to use. I
  1805. think a main reason for its utility is that basic use requires
  1806. little thought. When I'm using it for brainstorming, it's almost
  1807. like I'm not aware that I'm using any program &ndash; I'm just
  1808. thinking. Any changes to org-mode should preserve this
  1809. simplicity. Thanks a ton to Carsten and all the others who have
  1810. contributed to this great project!
  1811. </li>
  1812. <li>
  1813. Thank you Carsten!
  1814. </li>
  1815. <li>
  1816. Maybe we should consider a separate package or maintainer for
  1817. xemacs&hellip;.
  1818. </li>
  1819. <li>
  1820. Thanks, thanks and thanks.
  1821. </li>
  1822. <li>
  1823. Good stuff. thanks
  1824. </li>
  1825. <li>
  1826. It's Fun. ASCII is usually the only interface I can get used to,
  1827. because it's so fast.
  1828. </li>
  1829. <li>
  1830. org-mode makes me look organised (though a bit quirky). That's
  1831. enough reason to use it.
  1832. </li>
  1833. <li>
  1834. Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
  1835. </li>
  1836. <li>
  1837. Even if org-mode stands right where it is, it has been enormously
  1838. helpful. Thank you very, very much.
  1839. </li>
  1840. <li>
  1841. Well done
  1842. </li>
  1843. <li>
  1844. Yes: org-mode progresses very well and improves with each version
  1845. </li>
  1846. <li>
  1847. for me its the greatest found treasure since I "dicovered" Emacs.
  1848. </li>
  1849. <li>
  1850. Great work! Wish I had time to contribute more.
  1851. </li>
  1852. <li>
  1853. Keep up the good work :)
  1854. </li>
  1855. <li>
  1856. It's a great software project and community. Thanks again to
  1857. everyone involved!
  1858. </li>
  1859. <li>
  1860. Excellent piece of software!
  1861. </li>
  1862. <li>
  1863. I'm very very happy with it.
  1864. </li>
  1865. <li>
  1866. org-mode is fantastic :-)
  1867. </li>
  1868. <li>
  1869. The best feature of Org are its two maintainers Carsten and Bastien
  1870. and its helpful community.
  1871. </li>
  1872. <li>
  1873. Great mode for emacs. I wish I was using it more
  1874. </li>
  1875. <li>
  1876. It is great tool. Uncluttered. Thanks to Carsten et al.
  1877. </li>
  1878. <li>
  1879. Rock on!
  1880. </li>
  1881. <li>
  1882. favorite piece of software I use.
  1883. </li>
  1884. <li>
  1885. I'm continually amazed by what org can do, and also by how intuitive
  1886. it is. It's not at all unusual that I find myself thinking that it
  1887. would be great if org/emacs did "x", trying what seems to me to be
  1888. the way that it would do "x" if it could, and discovering that it
  1889. functions just as I expect. And when it doesn't, there are ways to
  1890. figure it out. (And Carsten is a great developer who shines at
  1891. hearing what his users are doing, responding to expressed needs, and
  1892. even being clear if/when he decides not to do what someone would
  1893. like him to do. Other heavy users and scripters are great as well.
  1894. </li>
  1895. <li>
  1896. I started using Org-mode as an outliner. It is the best outliner
  1897. I've used an much more. The community is valuable but Carsten's
  1898. skill and judgment has made org-mode what it is.
  1899. </li>
  1900. <li>
  1901. It's a killer tool that I could not live without.
  1902. </li>
  1903. <li>
  1904. org-mode is great, I hope it can keep clean text file when adding
  1905. functions.
  1906. </li>
  1907. <li>
  1908. I forced myself to learn emacs after 25+ years in the vi camp in
  1909. order to use org-mode. Loving it. Carsten's enthusiasm and support
  1910. are a joy, and the mailing list is always refreshing.
  1911. </li>
  1912. <li>
  1913. I plan to run a website where users could share Org files and edit
  1914. them together. I plan to write a better exporter (and more formats!)
  1915. I think the Org syntax is mature enough to get more programs
  1916. interacting with it outside Emacs. Org is <b>great</b> :)
  1917. </li>
  1918. <li>
  1919. It's wonderful. Thanks!
  1920. </li>
  1921. <li>
  1922. org-mode is a fantastic program, supported by a lively helpful email
  1923. list. Carsten is very responsive to feature requests and helping.
  1924. </li>
  1925. </ul>
  1926. <p>-end-
  1927. </p>
  1928. </div>
  1929. <div class="outline-2">
  1930. <h2 id="sec-12">Appendix: Raw data for some questions:</h2>
  1931. <div class="outline-3">
  1932. <h3 id="sec-13"><span class="target">Raw Emacs versions</span> </h3>
  1933. <p>Here are the detailed responses, for reference.
  1934. </p>
  1935. <p>
  1936. <pre>
  1937. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.13) of 2007-07-08 on malo, modified by Debian 2. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
  1938. 21.3.1 and 22.1.1
  1939. 22.0.96.1 on Windows CVS from the unicode2 branch on Linux
  1940. Emacs 22.1 GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.11) of 2007-09-16 on zen
  1941. Emacs 22.1. Where I happen to be sitting, M-x version says: GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, X toolkit) of 2007-06-15 on sa
  1942. Emacs 23
  1943. Emacs from CVS GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of 2007-10-31 on samarium
  1944. Emacs22
  1945. GNU 22.0.98.1
  1946. GNU Emacs 21.3.1
  1947. GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2006-03-21 on YAMALOK
  1948. GNU Emacs 22.0.91.1
  1949. GNU Emacs 22.0.95.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2007-03-02 on pacem, modified by Debian
  1950. GNU Emacs 22.0.96.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-03-24 on NEUTRINO
  1951. GNU Emacs 22.0.990.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-05-23 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched)
  1952. GNU Emacs 22.1
  1953. GNU Emacs 22.1
  1954. GNU Emacs 22.1.1
  1955. GNU Emacs 22.1.1
  1956. GNU Emacs 22.1.1
  1957. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-apple-darwin9, Carbon Version 1.6.0)
  1958. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.0.0, X toolkit) of 2007-11-05 on selenium. dmg
  1959. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
  1960. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
  1961. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
  1962. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
  1963. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20) of 2007-07-22 on nautilus, modified by Debian"
  1964. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2007-08-22 on raven, modified by Debian
  1965. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2007-11-03 on pacem, modified by Debian
  1966. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2007-11-03 on pacem, modified by Debian - Gnu Emacs 22.1 windows version
  1967. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i586-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of 2007-11-06 on balada
  1968. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) of 2007-09-27
  1969. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.4)
  1970. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.6) of 2007-09-14, in an Eterm
  1971. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2007-07-22 on applecore.inf.ed.ac.uk - Aquamacs Distribution 1.
  1972. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.10.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2007-10-04 on malibu.local
  1973. GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of 2007-11-06 on king, modified by Ubuntu
  1974. GNU Emacs 22.1.2 (i386-unknown-openbsd4.1, X toolkit) of 2007-06-10 on lucien.my.domain
  1975. GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1
  1976. GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin8.10.1, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2007-10-02 on plume.sr.unh.edu - Aquamacs Distribution 1.2a
  1977. GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-07-07 on NEUTRINO
  1978. GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2007-06-18 on ...
  1979. GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-07-10 on BREP
  1980. GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-08-18 on TPAD
  1981. GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20) of 2007-03-18
  1982. GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2007-08-13 on cera" (emacs-unicode2), Emacs 22.1 under Windows.
  1983. GNU Emacs 23.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-11-13 (via CVS, compiled with GnuWin32 native tools rather than cygwin)
  1984. GNU Emacs 23.0.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.1) of 2007-11-11 on elegiac, modified by Debian
  1985. GNU Emacs 23.0.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20) of 2007-10-14 on elegiac, modified by Debian"
  1986. GNU Emacs 23.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.1) of 2007-11-15 on baldur
  1987. GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1
  1988. GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of 2007-10-31 on samarium
  1989. GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.14) of 2007-10-29
  1990. GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i686-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
  1991. GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i686-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
  1992. GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.1)
  1993. GNU Emacs CVS (~23.0.50.1)
  1994. GNU Emacs CVS 20071101
  1995. GNU Emacs CVS 23.0.0
  1996. GNU Emacs On Windows XP: GNU Emacs 22.0.990.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-05-23 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched) On Linux: GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (armv5tel-unknown-linux-gnu) of 2007-06-22 on homehub
  1997. GNU Emacs and Carbon Emacs, both 22.1
  1998. GNU. On Debian: GNU Emacs 23.0.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.1) of 2007-11-11 on elegiac, modified by Debian The other isn't available right now.
  1999. Gnu Emacs 22.1.1 and 21.4 (patch 20) "Double Solitaire" XEmacs Lucid
  2000. Gnu Emacs v22.1.50.1
  2001. Gnu/Emacs GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of 2007-11-11
  2002. Carbon Emacs, an OS X distro of GNU Emacs 22.1.50
  2003. XEmacs 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" [Lucid] (i486-linux-gnu, Mule) of Fri Nov 3 2006 on penell
  2004. XEmacs 21.4 (patch 20) "Double Solitaire" [Lucid] (i486-linux-gnu) of Fri Oct 19 2007 on penell
  2005. XEmacs 21.4 (patch 20) "Double Solitaire" [Lucid] (i686-pc-cygwin, Mule) of Fri Dec 15 2006 on vzell-de
  2006. XEmacs 21.4 (patch 20) \"Double Solitaire\" [Lucid] (i686-pc-cygwin, Mule) of Fri Dec 15 2006 on vzell-d
  2007. XEmacs 21.4.20 (distributed with Cygwin)
  2008. XEmacs 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" [Lucid] (i686-pc-linux, Mule) of Wed Jun 13 2007 on n2
  2009. XEmacs Lucid 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" - on Windows, Similar on linux (not at machine)
  2010. Emacs
  2011. Emacs 21.4.1 emacs 21.?.? (at work, I'm not certain)
  2012. GNU
  2013. GNU 22.1.1
  2014. GNU emacs
  2015. GNU emacs 22.1.50.1 (snapshot)
  2016. GNU emacs GNU Emacs 22.0.97.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.4.13)
  2017. </pre>
  2018. </p>
  2019. </div>
  2020. <div class="outline-3">
  2021. <h3 id="sec-14"><span class="target">Raw ages</span> </h3>
  2022. <p>
  2023. <pre>
  2024. 22 Sun, 11/25/07 6:38 PM
  2025. 22 Thu, 11/15/07 11:55 PM
  2026. 24 Fri, 11/16/07 4:15 AM
  2027. 25 Sun, 11/18/07 10:05 PM
  2028. 25 Sun, 11/25/07 12:04 PM
  2029. 26 Mon, 11/19/07 10:29 AM
  2030. 26 Sat, 11/24/07 4:38 AM
  2031. 26 Thu, 11/15/07 2:45 PM
  2032. 26 Thu, 11/15/07 7:22 PM
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  2035. 28 Sun, 12/2/07 5:32 AM
  2036. 28 Thu, 11/15/07 10:06 PM
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  2043. 30 Thu, 11/15/07 3:01 PM
  2044. 31 Fri, 11/16/07 2:30 AM
  2045. 31 Sun, 11/18/07 3:14 PM
  2046. 31 yrs. Fri, 11/23/07 7:04 PM
  2047. 32 Fri, 11/23/07 10:11 PM
  2048. 32 Thu, 11/15/07 12:02 PM
  2049. 33 Fri, 11/16/07 12:54 PM
  2050. 33 Sat, 11/17/07 4:41 AM
  2051. 33 Sat, 11/24/07 2:28 AM
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  2053. 33 Thu, 11/15/07 11:34 PM
  2054. 33 Thu, 11/15/07 12:27 PM
  2055. 33 Wed, 11/21/07 11:57 PM
  2056. 34 Fri, 11/16/07 1:24 AM
  2057. 34 Mon, 11/19/07 7:31 PM
  2058. 34 Thu, 11/22/07 6:59 AM
  2059. 35 Fri, 11/16/07 3:23 AM
  2060. 35 Fri, 11/16/07 7:53 AM
  2061. 35 Mon, 11/19/07 10:03 AM
  2062. 35 Sun, 12/9/07 2:40 AM
  2063. 35 Thu, 11/22/07 6:47 PM
  2064. 35 Tue, 11/27/07 11:04 AM
  2065. 36 Fri, 11/16/07 3:19 AM
  2066. 37 Fri, 11/16/07 12:11 PM
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  2068. 37 Fri, 11/23/07 1:13 AM
  2069. 37 Thu, 11/15/07 9:09 PM
  2070. 37 Thu, 11/22/07 3:39 AM
  2071. 37 Tue, 11/20/07 10:55 PM
  2072. 38 Sun, 12/23/07 1:43 AM
  2073. 39 Sun, 11/18/07 9:52 PM
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  2076. 41 Fri, 11/16/07 7:36 AM
  2077. 41 Sat, 11/17/07 9:27 AM
  2078. 42 Fri, 11/23/07 7:58 AM
  2079. 42 Mon, 11/19/07 9:18 AM
  2080. 42 Sat, 11/17/07 2:31 AM
  2081. 42 Sat, 11/17/07 4:32 AM
  2082. 42 Thu, 11/15/07 11:45 PM
  2083. 42 Thu, 11/15/07 8:23 PM
  2084. 43 Mon, 12/10/07 12:58 AM
  2085. 45 Fri, 11/16/07 3:21 AM
  2086. 45 Fri, 11/16/07 4:40 AM
  2087. 45 Fri, 11/16/07 4:40 AM
  2088. 45 Sun, 11/18/07 7:39 PM
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  2091. 49 Thu, 11/15/07 11:15 AM
  2092. </pre>
  2093. </p>
  2094. <p>
  2095. 52 Mon, 11/19/07 12:40 AM
  2096. 54 Thu, 11/15/07 11:38 AM
  2097. 54 Thu, 11/15/07 12:27 PM
  2098. </p>
  2099. </div>
  2100. </div>
  2101. <div id="postamble"><p class="author"> Author: Charles Cave
  2102. <a href="mailto:charles.cave@gmail.com">&lt;charles.cave@gmail.com&gt;</a>
  2103. </p>
  2104. <p class="date"> Date: 2008/02/05 20:14:53</p>
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