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+hello and welcome to my
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+Emacs conference lightning talk today
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+I'll be talking about
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+my journey into Emacs as a high schooler
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+and how it has changed my life
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+right so who am I I am a senior at
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+stanford online high school
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+and I am also a violinist
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+I started violin when I was two and a
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+half and I have been
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+keeping it up ever since violin is a
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+huge part of my life
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+and I am very much a musician at heart
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+I am also a somewhat capable programmer
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+I've done a lot of informal programming
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+in the past
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+and this year I'm taking my first ap
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+compsci course
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+in my high school and so
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+I've done a lot of side projects
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+mainly in python and some very short
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+scripts in e-lisp
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+and last but not least I am a tinker
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+I love to play around with things and
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+see what I can do better and just
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+have as much fun as possible
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+so how did I find Emacs
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+I discovered it actually through a talk
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+funnily enough
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+at a vim conference given by aaron
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+bieber
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+titled evil mode or how I learned to
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+stop worrying and love Emacs
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+I watched that talk a couple times over
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+just marveling at all the wonderful
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+things that he could do in Emacs
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+and being a previous vim user myself
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+I found it very enticing to be able to
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+have
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+the evil mode package and very quickly
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+switch to Emacs
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+at the time I was also in my sophomore
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+year and so
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+I had had sort of a note-taking system
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+in the past
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+but it was not good um and I needed a
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+more organized note-taking system
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+my parents had suggested paper for a
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+while and
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+there was the whole organization
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+part of that but that did not really
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+work out for me
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+and so I was trying to find this better
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+note-taking system
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+and it was very hard
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+I had two main criteria which I did not
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+define at the time
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+but I realized was really what I was
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+looking for
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+first of all it had to be flexible
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+enough and second of all it had
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+I had to have control over the data and
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+so
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+through this process I actually went
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+through a bunch of note-taking softwares
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+rather systematically I went through
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+google docs
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+which very much did not work out
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+I also went through evernote which also
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+was not
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+great for me and one note which I
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+settled on for a little while
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+but it did not meet these criteria
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+particularly the second one I had taken
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+some notes
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+and I wanted to export it and onenote
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+did not let me do that
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+it was pdf horribly organized pdf
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+and that's when I knew I needed some
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+change
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+so I discovered Emacs through this talk
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+and through the wonderful features of
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+org mode
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+this is my first journal entry in Emacs
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+I had been playing with it for one day
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+and I was on the org agenda and I
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+happened to press I
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+which for the Emacs combined is the
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+default for
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+diary entry and so I was very excited
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+um and I shouldn't stay on the slide too
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+long unless you read it
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+um so let's move on to the next one
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+um so the learning curve for me I think
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+particularly being an xbm user
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+evil mode made it very easy to switch
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+thankfully I there was the emax
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+reference sheet
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+and having evil mode to
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+switch between um
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+texts and whether it be editing a text
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+file
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+or going to other parts of just Emacs in
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+general
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+I think vim really helped with making me
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+feel comfortable within this new
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+environment
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+and so having that experience I also
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+wasn't
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+new to the keybind-based world I have
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+been very comfortable with computer
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+and the keyboard for most of my life
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+and so it was not a totally new
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+environment for me
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+I also spent a lot of time looking at
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+the Emacs reference sheet
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+just thinking about trying to find
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+all of the different functions if I
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+didn't know what something was
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+then I queried it in Emacs and then I
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+figured out what it was
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+and that was one of the best ways for me
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+to discover
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+all of the capabilities of Emacs
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+thirdly of course the self-documenting
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+feature
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+or nature of Emacs and narrowing
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+frameworks such as helm
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+really helped find things especially for
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+mx
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+for a while I was just
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+I would go about my day and if I pressed
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+to keep mine that I didn't know what it
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+did
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+I would do the losses and
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+see the list of key binds that I had
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+pressed and
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+tried to find that one and query the
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+function
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+and what not so
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+yeah and now we jump to now so
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+there there is at least one moment in
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+each day when I think
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+how would I live without umax
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+particularly now during my senior year
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+in high school
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+things are very busy with school violin
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+and other side projects it's pretty
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+crazy
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+and so Emacs
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+and org mode has really helped me stay
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+on track with everything
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+and the flexibility of these software is
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+being able to have things in different
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+files notes within the tasks
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+all of that stuff has been truly a
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+lifesaver
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+and so I think I can confidently say
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+that I have found Emacs to be
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+the perfect software for me
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+over the past two years of using Emacs
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+now it is about two years and two months
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+I have built a fairly well organized
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+2000
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+plus line org literate config
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+and so I actually I started with an
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+e-lisp config
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+just the vanilla e-max with evil mode
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+and I built it up
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+from there eventually I switched to org
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+literate configs
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+and used that to organize the snippets
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+that I was putting in there and so
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+yeah this is really my workflow now
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+currently about 90 of everything I do on
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+my computer is in Emacs
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+the most notable things of course the
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+list is far
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+too long to put on one slide but I do a
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+lot of my programming in Emacs
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+mainly python and e-lisp
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+because of my ap comp sci class I have
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+to do java as well
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+and thank goodness Emacs has wonderful
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+support for that as well
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+also I do all of my school assignments
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+more or less in Emacs essay writing I do
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+an org mode and I have some template
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+files
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+template org files which I just include
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+at the top
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+and then I can export easily to latex
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+and a beautiful pdf
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+math physics same thing latex fragments
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+are a lifesaver
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+and also really pretty
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+and I take notes on basically everything
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+at first I had things separate and then
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+I started
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+sort of putting it all into onenotes.org
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+file or most of it into one
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+file and that has actually worked out
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+surprisingly well
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+especially with all the searching
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+features of agenda
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+and whatnot um and I also use mail
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+I recently made the switch probably
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+about one or two months ago
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+and it has been one of the best switches
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+I've
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+I've ever had especially given
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+connecting to tasks all of this
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+wonderful stuff
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+just putting even more in Emacs is
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+always a good thing I found
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+so reflecting back on my journey I think
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+one of the most important things was
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+just having a reason to use it
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+when I came to Emacs I had something
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+that I was looking for
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+and as soon as I found it I delved right
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+in
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+and I I started using it for that thing
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+and so I was sort of forced to
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+take the time to read the docs and
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+figure out what functions I needed
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+to function and how
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+I was going to put my workflow
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+and also of course the desire to tinker
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+and yeah so really what's next for me
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+is just wanting to become a more active
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+member of the Emacs community
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+I want to give back and I think this
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+talk is sort of the first step to that
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+being a more active part of this
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+community that has
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+indirectly perhaps um but just like
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+really helped me become a better and
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+more organized human being
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+um I have some package ideas that I'm
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+slowly working on and yeah I just hope
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+to spread the word
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+so thank you very much for listening to
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+my lightning talk
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+if you'd like to contact me here are
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+three modes of
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+or two modes of communication I will be
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+on irc more
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+soon and you can always email me if you
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+have
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+any questions you can also search me on
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+youtube
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+pierce wong violin thank you very much
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+and
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+I hope you enjoy the rest of the
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+conference