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Re: [Orgmode] Org-mode and taskpaper
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Clint Laskowski |
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Re: [Orgmode] Org-mode and taskpaper |
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Tue, 1 Apr 2008 06:20:15 -0500 |
My thoughtful suggestion has become the brunt of an April Fool's Joke?
I have half a mind to report you all to the Productivity Police! Fine!
I'm going back to paper and pencil for to-do lists, and mail, too!
We'll see how you like that!
:-)
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> the recent discussion about Taskpaper in the thread started
> by Clint Laskowski has made me realize how much we have lost
> out way with Org-mode. Org-mode was once a compact and
> easy tool just like taskpaper. In fact, looking at the
> features of taskpaper, one might think that they had an older
> version of Org-mode as model and goal of their development.
>
> But in the meantime, mostly due to a mountain of demands
> from this group, it has become so bloated with mostly
> useless features, that all but the most geeky users are
> totally confused by this.
>
> Reading this thread has really cost me a lot of sleep, but
> I have now come to the conclusion that we need to turn
> the tide and downscope Org-mode significantly. Luckily
> I have recently put much effort into splitting org.el
> into a number of separate files with separate features.
> This allows us a very simple and straight-forward path
> for this down-scoping effort. I can simply try to remove
> one of these separate files after the other and then see
> how much complaining I will get for this. In this way,
> we can make this process community-based, but I will
> need you to frequently update org-mode and to give me
> feedback during the process.
>
> Those of you who actively follow the git repository
> might have noticed that this morning I have started
> by removing org-table.el, the file containing the
> table editor. Unfortunately this also means that the
> clocktable support no longer works, but I have always
> considered this as a sickening feature anyway, which
> tries to streamline our life, but in fact only leads to
> more work, and to more time taken away from spending with
> partners, kids and friends.
>
> I hope that you can all agree with my conclusion. If not,
> than I am confident that with time you will realize
> just how important today's decision was.
>
> - Carsten
>
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-- Clint
Clint Laskowski, CISSP
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