¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

I’ve just fallen in love with the amazing orgmode. What the hell is this? I talked about it before: it is a super add-on (mode) for Emacs, where you can organize, note and plan just every thing and aspect of your life. I’m not describing it here in more details; if you want to peek through its features, just access this page. I’d just like to share some of my (current) usages of it:

1. Once I published in this blog that “Favoritos são o terror” (something like ‘bookmarks/links are the worst’). Well, not anymore! Now I feel so much comfortable organizing my bookmarks with orgmode + version control (git). Before: I used to throw every bookmark in a different folder in my browser (that was both with Firefox and Chromium). My conclusion: this is so bad. Please just don’t do that. It is better to save nothing than to save everything. Now, storing my bookmarks in plain text and with version control, I have complete control of them. There is also a bonus: focus. By design (of orgmode), these bookmarks will not get into my way when they are not needed.
2. I use orgmode to publish posts in this blog (this one is an example!), thanks to org2blog. Believe me, this is much faster than logging into wordpress and trying to format everything there. Of course, sometimes I still use the wordpress web interface. But org2blog is (by far) more comfortable, and faster.
3. I’m beginning to convert every TODO list that I have scattered through everywhere into a few .org files. By adding these files to the org agenda I can easily keep track of every goal and things I have to do. This is boosting (for now , just a little, since I’m migrating my workflow) my productivity and fighting with my stress.
4. Finally, my main motivation: I’m organizing and tracking my progress with a list of things to study using orgmode.

Once I asked myself if learning Emacs would be a wise choice. Today I can look back and say: yes, it was. Just for orgmode. Do not underestimate the powers of the unicorn.