Wow. I guess I was wrong when I said that we have well and truly enough #Obsidian how-to tutorials out there. Either that or this person doesn’t have the faintest idea how to google properly.
@dhry The reason why some of us use #orgmode for #pkm stuff is that it can be configured to do whatever we want and work exactly the way we want.
Especially if you use it via #emacs, in which case either someone has already made a package that does exactly what you want or it can be written as elisp code by yourself.
Out of the box default experience may not be very shiny, but under the hood it's probably the most powerful tool there is.
Neat, could you tell me how Things handles task or note creation directly from emails, rss feeds? Or flipcards like Anki for learning purposes? Because my orgmode setup handles both of those with a breeze.
The power of orgmode is just that, I can make it work exactly the way I want to the smallest nitty gritty detail and combine it with other services. Have some cool feature in some other app? Great, if I like it I can replicate it in org.
@harish I don't use mobile devices in that manner so I don't have working example. I use Syncthing to sync my files between all my computers and mobile devices.
I have heard there is OrgNote? app for Android while some use emacs on their Android phones which definitely solves the issue.
I don't have any problem with others using whatever tools they want. I'm simply trying to explain reasoning behind my (and many others) decision to rather use single point of entry aka orgmode for everything.
I've made it through another term at the coalface, and I'm so, so tired. I have a heap of marking that I should have done but haven't, as always. I just think, fundamentally, in teaching - we need more prep time and less contact time. 10% is not enough. I feel that statement needs those obnoxious clapping hands, but I'll resist. What is it in other countries...? #Education#Teaching#Teachers#UKSchools#SecondarySchools#edutooter@edutooters
In Finland upper secondary school this depends on your subject. Finnish language teachers have 16 hours per week teaching while I have 20 as a math/chemistry teacher. Prep and assesment time is not accounted for. It takes what it takes and it's our job as professionals to keep it at sane levels.
Our pay is solely defined by the number of contact hours we teach. The above numbers corresponding to full time job & full salary in both subjects. Rarely less, often much more.
@writeblankspace I write all my presentations and documents in plain text (with Emacs org-mode), export them into properly formatted .tex files and compile to beautiful pdf documents.
I too refuse to use Microsoft products as long as I possibly can. But then again, I'm a teacher so I can do that rather long 😂
@freemo@cark I don't think there is any reason to move away from LaTeX if you are already using it proficiently. However, there are definitely areas where Typst would be better to begin with if you are new to typesetting.
That said, I would still recommend LaTeX to most math/science/engineering students because of the ecosystem and the longevity of it.
Some coding tasks this weekend for university course. Easy to write the code and notes for the assignment with #emacs in a single #orgmode file with code blocks and then set those blocks to tangle the source code into separate file I can then submit for grading.
No matter if I need to submit 1 file or 10 files for the assignment, the code can live inside the single org file with my personal notes that I don't want to submit. Wish I had known this for my first master's.
@rml never been a contest mate. #emacs was, is and will be far superior because it's so much more than just a text editor.
Though as a pure text editor, especially if writing code, I find #vim better and that's why I use evil-mode with emacs. That might be just because I never learned the default emacs keybindings properly.
I know of and have tried out org-present and org-tree-slide. However, neither really gives me everything I want. I almost always need lots of nice math type-setting, which is why beamer has been my go to since forever. Plus, I don't see an easy way to get step-by-step showing of content a la overlay in beamer or fragment in reveal.js. That's something I must have as it is central to my presentation style.
However, I do agree that for extremely simple, quick and dirty presentations, nothing can come close to org-present/org-tree-slide, at least for #emacs folks.
Wrt executing source blocks, there are options like pweave (and an r equivalent) for beamer/latex. For reveal.js I think klipse plugin allows execution (albeit of a small selection of languages, with others needing custom work).
Most of the time, I don't need to execute code live, at most I want to be able to show relevant output based on parameters set earlier in the presentation (for which weaving/klipse are sufficient). Also, editing typos is not an important enough feature for me to switch.
Thanks for the discussion though. It is important to know use cases where one tool is superior to another. If I ever teach a programming heavy course, I'll probably use org-tree-slide.
Just a quick note that org-latex-preview works like a charm with org-tree-slide. I use the combo while solving example problems live in class and write the LaTeX on the go. I found and borrowed a custom function that runs the command everytime I'm in org mode and write ") " to close the math environment.
For "normal" lecture slides I also export from org to beamer for similar reasons you mention.
