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[Orgmode] Re: Simple wiki system like VIMWiki


From: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Subject: [Orgmode] Re: Simple wiki system like VIMWiki
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:22:03 -0600

Forgot to add the link to VIMWiki:

http://code.google.com/p/vimwiki/

Regards,

Marcelo.

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I've started using vim lately for my programming needs and I love it,
> mostly because the motion and shortcuts are much more efficient. That
> aside, I still think emacs is a great platform and text-editor and I
> still use it for other stuff, mainly organizing myself (thanks to
> orgmode).
>
> Most of the todo/GTD stuff is well handled by org, but I do find that
> for reference and brainstorming, a real-time (and straightforward)
> wiki is the best solution. I have been managing to keep things simple
> by keeping all my reference org files under a (/wiki) folder and
> setting peepopen (an OSX cocoa fuzzy-finder
> (http://peepcode.com/products/peepopen)) to index specifically this
> folder and bound this to Command-w, and it works great for getting a
> quick index of the wiki and quickly open a file from it.
>
> However, linking and creating new files is far from optimal. Org-mode
> still tries to keep things at the headline-level, instead of at file
> level. This works, but for me,  not so well. Why? The simple fact that
> org asks me if I want to create a target in the current file or in a
> another file already gets me out of the zone. I prefer some convetion
> over configuration.
>
> It'd be nice if org had, for example, a more org-like wiki (like
> wikinodes) and a more traditional one (like VIMwiki). Not sure if
> there's another mode I could combo with org that would give the
> functionality I want, I'm open to suggestions :)
>
> Marcelo.
>



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