Beginning to see the light with org-mode

Posted by Lucas
Sep 9, 2015 at 05:26 PM

I have dabbled in org-mode and see the potential, but here’s my take, for what it’s worth: I see potential in any of the following 3 scenarios:

1. A user-friendly GUI front-end for org-mode
2. More sophisticated plug-ins for text editors like Sublime Text or Atom that could achieve similar functionality
3. Totally new programs that achieve the same ends but maintain files in plain text.

With any of these three options, what I would want to see would be, for instance, the ability to have “smart folders” or “saved searches” or “filters”, whereby clicking on the smart folder shows all lines of text for a given set of criteria. A great model of what I have in mind is the Mac program The Hit List. I would love to see something approaching The Hit List in terms of functionality but based on plain text. It just seems so much more efficient to have permanent smart folders than to have to scroll around or re-type search strings all the time. I realize, of course, that it’s not entirely straightforward how such smart folders get saved in plain text, but there is currently a good filters plun-in for Sublime Text, so I’m sure this could be done.