Why not use Obsidian and/or Logseq instead of OrgRoam?

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  • org-kanban

    Kanban table for org-mode

  • It definetly can. It just represents tables and kanban boards as text. And you manipulate them with keyboard. This also makes it really productive. Check out https://github.com/gizmomogwai/org-kanban and this video about basics of org-mode https://youtu.be/34zODp_lhqg

  • org-web-tools

    View, capture, and archive Web pages in Org-mode

  • I use `org-babel` a lot. How much? Well, I guess I can use org-babel to help me find out. `SPC i s sh` triggers yasnippet to lay down a `src` block template for shell commands. How do I grep? exec 2>&1 # Piped through head to abbreviate the outptu because i just plan to paste this into reddit grep --help | head : And so … exec 2>&1 # No need to flood the post with every single result grep --no-filename --recursive --count "#+begin_src" ~/org | head : 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 It's very easy to iterate and keep a full history of what I am doing. I fold the src block with that, I `yy` to copy it, i move down below the results exec 2>&1 grep --no-filename --recursive --count "#+begin_src" ~/org | numsum : That block when executed outputs: 2388 and press `p` to paste it and then edit it some more exec 2>&1 echo I found $(grep --no-filename --recursive --count "#+begin_src" ~/org | numsum) src blocks across $(grep --only-matching --no-filename --recursive --count "#+begin_src" ~/org | wc -l) files : Which outputs: I found 2388 src blocks across 4037 files And now I have a pretty nice log of exactly what I did, and I can easily export this with nice formatting for ascii, html, pdf, markdown, odt, jira, slack, Multipart Email (gpg signed). I am always coming across new things to try. Like just now, `embark-export`, never heard of it before but I just stumbled across it and it shows me line numbers and heading in a file in a separate buffer that I can easily use to jump to different spots in the document. Kind of like a navigable toc off to the side. I can use `org-transclusion` to stitch a document together from multiple files. I can do tables, im not fluent, but I can find examples and hack them to my needs for which I simply copy and paste when I need them again. tables of stuff       different plugins make tables and `org-mode` look differently, `org-modern`, `valign` … [org-web-tools](https://github.com/alphapapa/org-web-tools) lets me grab web pages and convert them to `org-mode` syntax (there is an effort underway to popularize the term Orgdown) as subtree within my document with `org-web-tools-insert-web-page-as-entry`. I seamlessly read email and copy and email into org-mode where I can write a response much as I have here leaving a nice history for myself with links between all the points. so my future self has a lot of bread crumbs that can be followed if I am doing archaeology. I have tried many different ways of organizing things and I still use a mix of many things though OrgRoam is my current primary capturing mechanism. I have clusters of my various previous attempts, a few large files from when I was doing everything in one place, some project specific directory trees, a cluster of notes from when I was primarily using deft. I use sparkleshare and syncthing and git on various different shards of my `~/org` directory tree. So, I guess my why boils down to Org-mode in Emacs is just so feature rich and the fact that I spend most of the time at my workstation so while mobile apps are nice, it's just a very small portion of my workflow.

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  • melpa

    Recipes and build machinery for the biggest Emacs package repo

  • Or https://melpa.org/

  • emacs-zettelkasten

    Simple zettelkasten mode for emacs. Mirror of https://sr.ht/~ymherklotz/emacs-zettelkasten/

  • What functionality are you looking for? “Knowledge Management” is extremely broad. Org and/or orgroam is probably what most people use for knowledge management. There’s also https://github.com/ymherklotz/emacs-zettelkasten or https://github.com/EFLS/zetteldeft

  • zetteldeft

    A Zettelkasten system! Or rather, some functions on top of the emacs deft package.

  • What functionality are you looking for? “Knowledge Management” is extremely broad. Org and/or orgroam is probably what most people use for knowledge management. There’s also https://github.com/ymherklotz/emacs-zettelkasten or https://github.com/EFLS/zetteldeft

  • awesome-emacs

    A community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and other items.

  • You can find packages here https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs

  • svg-lib

    Emacs SVG libraries for creatings tags, icons and bars

  • Oh, I understood now what you mean. I think Emacs is definitely capable of doing this (https://github.com/rougier/svg-lib), but I don't think there's a plugin which has already done it :/.

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