[School] What a mess

My written notes and draft pages for my thesis are a mess.  Now that I'm compiling everything into a final copy, I wish I'd kept better care of it.  I'm spending part of today learning how to use org-mode in Emacs.  Emacs is my favourite text editor.  I've had some qualms about relying on something so text- and short-cut-heavy.  My concern about things that rely on shortcuts is discoverability of features.  I feel as though good software's features should be easily discoverable, and should be intuitive, so you don't have to spend a lot of time learning and practising how to use it.  I actually like Bloggers' Compose view more than writing in HTML now (which wasn't always the case) (though I'd really appreciate more keyboard shortcuts).

Basically, I wanted something that was hyperlinked and efficient and didn't require a web-browser and let me write in LaTeX.  Annoyingly, org-mode has its own lightweight markup language (yet another...) but it's thankfully intuitive and pretty conventional (e.g. *bold*).

If you're interested, here's the elementary tutorial I'm using to introduce myself to it.

Some notes from me:

• working with Todos, it says to use C-c C-v to just show a list of them
• Instead, I have to use C-c / t,  (that is, typing '/' after C-c, then t).  This folds in all the other headers.  To unfold them, just use tab, or shift-tab for the whole document.
• (Discovered by checking the ref card)
• for the Agenda to work properly, follow the Activation section of the guide.  Elsewise, I get "C-c a is undefined"
• http://orgmode.org/guide/Activation.html#Activation
• (Solution found here)