Tuesday, August 14, 2012

emacs org-mode

emacs org-mode is the most powerful tool for daily planner, (as far as I known). Depend on personal taste, the emacs could be the real daemon or the absolutely life saver.

In case of beginners, I would recommend people first follow the tutorial: 


On the other hand, based on the configuration file (.emacs file) from the tutorial before, 
I have build a simple cheating sheet for daily common usage:  ( This cheating sheet itself is built by using org-mode)

* Org-Mode
** C-Meta-r t
   create new TODO by using remember
** C-c C-x C-s
   archive old tasks
** C-c C-c  :Tags:
   create tags
** C-c \ (followed by the tag string)       :Tags:
   with exact word
   searching for Tags in the whole file

** C-c C-t
   Switch status for TODOs(After switch status, logging will be possible)
** C-c C-s
   schedule the TODO
** C-c a
   Going into the weekly schedule mode
*** ,
    Set the priorities
*** d
    Showing today's schedule only
*** c
    Showing all Done, Deferred and cancelled tasks
*** m         :Tags: 
    a list of all todo items in all files matching a tag 
** insert url command:
[[www.neu.edu] Northeastern Univeristy]
*** go over that link and C-c C-o to open the link

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