I've been bit by the gtd bug. At some point, any scheme to get organized is going to require an outliner of some sort. It could be MS Word. It could be Omni Outliner.
But geeks work best with simple formats like text files. And it's easy enough to construct an outline by successive levels of indentation in your favorite text editor. But how to edit an outline, where you want to expand and collapse whole levels, and promote or demote at will?
More importantly, how do you do that in vi? [*]
The answer is The Vim Outliner, courtesy of the indefatigable Ned Konz.
Thanks, Ned. ;-)
*: I'm sure there's some ESC-C-M-X-outliner-and-kitchen-sink major mode in emacs. Don't ask me what it is though....
FWIW:
ESC-x outline-mode
Usage:
* item one
item one body
** item two
item two body
...
Re:howto in emacs
mdxi on 2004-12-28T23:43:51
Actually, the above example shows one top-level item with a second-level item nested inside it. A simple two item list would look like:
*one
*two
And if you don't want to have to do a M-x ouTABoTAB every time you load your TODO list, just add this at the tail of the file:
### Local Variables: ###
### mode: Outline ###
### End: ###
...or define a mode hook for files named TODO (etc., etc., etc., TMTOWTDI) :D
