However I didn’t have much fondness for it from the very beginning. So when I switched to Mac as many programmers would, OneNote was just out of the picture.Įvernote was all the rage at that time. However at that time Microsoft was known to be stubborn to not offer their products outside of Windows. It was an integral part of my life when I first learnt English and prepared for university application. I gladly wrote a whole lot of notes on books/movies/interesting stuffs I would find on the web. It was great - it had multiple layers of organization comprising of Notebook, Section, Page, and even Subpage. I’ve seen many people using Emacs and Org mode for their scientific research, creative writing, personal journal, or whatever purpose out there.

I’m amazed by how my daily efficiency massively improved upon using Org mode, how other note-taking apps are just kind of reinventing the wheel, and how I didn’t get to know it earlier. However, the process was unexpectedly fraught with setbacks and angst, until I finally met Emacs Org mode, which is everything a programmer(or possibly any serious note-taker) could ever dream of. Thus it’s only natural that I immediately set out to find the perfect note-taking app for me after getting into the world of programming. And back when I was into reading newspapers, I would spend hours each night, carefully cutting and pasting newspaper articles into notebooks, accompanied with my comments I easily accumulated hundred of pages of paperclips in this fashion. I’ve lost count of the number of diary books I wrote as a kid.

(Note: This post is more a kind of rambling personal recount/opinion, so if you’re already an Org mode user and are just interested in some Org mode customizations you might want to see this.)

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