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From: "Clint Laskowski" <clint.laskowski@gmail.com>
To: Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch>
Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org-mode versus Taskpaper - now for real
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:54:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <de5213a50804011954j98e012en9cab32c44a156023@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hcelch1b.fsf@kamaloka.dhatu>

You got me! April Fools!

-- Clint (aka Carsten)

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
>  Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>
>  > The important point I would like to make here is that for all
>  > intents and purposes, Org-mode *is* taskpaper!
>
>  Here is what I think: Carsten *is* Clint!
>
>  This was a very well planned, long prepared, identity-shifting and,
>  indeed, very nasty April's joke.
>
>  I'm reminded on the philosopher Paul Riccoer, who stated that words
>  cease to be controlled by the speaker as soon as he writes them down
>  and, thereby, makes them subject to interpretation. I think I was the
>  first one to bring up the issue of complexity in the org/taskpaper
>  thread. I never wanted to complain about this. In fact, I like it that
>  way, because coping with complexity creates new ideas from time to
>  time, even for a simple user. Since I use Org-mode (for more than a
>  year now) I have learned many new features that I would miss very
>  much, the table editor being one of them. I deem it an absolutely
>  meaningful feature within a task management system, since it allows
>  one to store a certain type of "reference material" (as David Allen
>  would term it) directly in connection with associated projects. Great!
>
>  I didn't take a look at the new ++ schedules and, so far, have no idea
>  what they are for. But sooner or later I will come across a posting in
>  this list, that will produce a new idea how this feature could make my
>  life a little more easy. I'm sure about that. This is how a non-geek
>  like myself makes use of complexity: slowly growing into it. And this
>  is one of the main reasons why I read this list.
>
>  By the way, I don't think that many newcomers are terrified by the
>  complexity of Org-mode. Who -- as a non-geek newbee -- reads through
>  the code and notices its complexity at all? They hear of it by a short
>  howto on the web, download the package and start using it according to
>  the howto. Gradually, as they read more and more pages of the manual,
>  they become acquainted with the more subtle functions. Am I right?
>
>  Thanks a lot for creating Org-mode
>
>  Sven
>
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-- 

-- Clint

Clint Laskowski, CISSP
clint.laskowski@gmail.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-02  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-01 10:28 Org-mode versus Taskpaper - now for real Carsten Dominik
2008-04-01 11:39 ` Rainer Stengele
2008-04-01 14:30 ` Russell Adams
2008-04-01 15:52 ` Eddward DeVilla
2008-04-01 19:11   ` Carsten Dominik
2008-04-03  9:55   ` Rick Moynihan
2008-04-03 14:26     ` Manish
2008-04-03 15:14       ` Rick Moynihan
2008-04-03 16:59         ` Bastien
2008-04-03 17:27           ` Rick Moynihan
2008-04-04  9:26             ` Bastien
2008-04-04  9:12         ` Carsten Dominik
2008-04-04 12:20           ` Egli Christian (KIRO 433)
2008-04-04 12:38             ` Carsten Dominik
2008-04-07 15:14           ` Carsten Dominik
2008-04-03 16:26       ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-04-03 17:39         ` Rick Moynihan
2008-04-04  7:49       ` Carsten Dominik
2008-04-03 23:28     ` Jason F. McBrayer
2008-04-01 23:05 ` Sven Bretfeld
2008-04-02  2:54   ` Clint Laskowski [this message]
2008-04-03 16:22 ` Tim O'Callaghan

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