Re: IM dev discussions?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Mark Barton <mbarton98@gmail.com> writes:

>> You will likely find more young people
>> who use Emacs and org will also use email more, but I don't know if that
>> is because the types of people attracted to Emacs and org mode are also
>> the types of people more attracted to email for comms.
>
>
> My trend has been moving from GUI to the benefit that text based solutions 
> provide: reproducibility, version control, and documentation. 
> In my case, email is much easier to extract into my task management system 
> than most IM type solutions. IM is good for short conversations, but really 
> has a problem with organizing more historic data that may be needed for much 
> tougher topics that cannot be answered in a single session. Slack threads 
> really drive me crazy, because I have a hard time finding them again after a 
> day or so. This is where I use DEVONthink to associate different forms of 
> data into the related projects and use DEVONthink links in org mode for my 
> notes and task management.

Come on. We are talking about Org mode and Emacs.
Just load ol-irc.el and enjoy links to past conversations ;)
Matrix client for Org will likely have Org link support in future as
well.

And yes, you can bridge Slack to IRC/Matrix.

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