# Straw poll for emacs / org-mode workflow

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/straw-poll-for-emacs-org-mode-workflow/10369
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** editors, emacs
**Created:** [April 16, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/straw-poll-for-emacs-org-mode-workflow/10369 "2018-04-16T18:46:17Z")
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### Author: ![pasha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pasha/32/3319_2.png) [@pasha](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pasha)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/straw-poll-for-emacs-org-mode-workflow/10369/2 "2018-04-16T19:07:01Z")

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I use something similar - text is the way to go for sure. I’ve lost a lot of data to proprietary formats over the years, and nothing beats the power of text when you are in a familiar editor.

I use NeoVim, which is basically Vim, with a [taskpaper mode](https://github.com/davidoc/taskpaper.vim) that keeps the same kind of outline as org-mode. I would like to rewrite it into markdown so it would print nicely. Each project has its own list so I can pick up where I was pulled away. I tacked a bunch of macros and color schemes onto this ancient vim module.

To manage the lists, I wrote a Perl script to pull the done items down to an Archive group at the end, and move active items into their priority groupings. I just invoke it from a macro in Vim. My script and groupings have worked well for me this way since 2008, but they are idiosyncratic, based on GTD, and I wouldn’t assume they are useful to others.

The script is essential to keep the list sorted and uncrufted; I imagine the same could be done for org-mode. You can probably find a better language than Perl; Python would be good. Julia would be more fun, but would have a JIT wait everytime you ran it.

I really wish I’d had this when I was in grad school and starting companies; ironically it was available to me, but I was too busy with fancy things.

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