-I'm hoping to keep this talk in the 15 -
-minutes and I'll take five minutes of -
-question at the end -
-so hello again I suppose you're starting -
-to get pretty familiar with me and my -
-start right now so -
-right now we're getting into the nitty -
-gritty we started today -
-I told you about how I'd ventured from -
-being a user -
-to being a maintainer and right now I'm -
-going to get the chance to -
-actually tell you more about the project -
-that I'm maintaining -
-which is called org rome -
-so even if I it would have had a better -
-impact if I'd -
-didn't scroll the page but you know -
-sadly I'm out of tea -
-it's getting late in europe and I'm -
-starting to get tired -
-so what I'm gonna do during this talk -
-is just to do real survey for people who -
-do not know what orgrom is about -
-some of you might might have you know -
-whilst browsing reddit -
-found a topic about orgrom and thought -
-to yourself oh that looks interesting -
-but -
-you know I have my own workflow and I -
-get it don't need to change anything -
-about it you know I'm completely fine -
-using my very very large file or I'm -
-completely fine having my -
-database of notes which is I've been -
-accruing for like 10 20 30 years or so -
-so what I want to do during this talk -
-is both to present to you what orgrom is -
-about -
-if you are in this group of people who -
-do not -
-know what algorithm is about but would -
-like to know more but -
-also for people who have close to no -
-experience with Emacs and org mode and -
-was just found their way you know they -
-wanted to find the system to -
-write their notes basically and you know -
-they discovered this little tool which -
-is called orgrome -
-and they'd like to know more about this -
-so I've got 13 -
-minutes to convince you to use hologram -
-so if we go in a very broad strokes -
-what is orgram orgrom -
-is a way for you to manage backlinks -
-inside -
-old mode and the keyword -
-in what I've just said is links now -
-there is a principle behind orgrom -
-which is called the zettelgasten method -
-which you can see written right there -
-it's a german word -
-which means a slit box if you remember -
-in old libraries -
-you had actually I believe if I scroll I -
-should have an example of this -
-yes so this is a slip box basically in -
-all libraries you used to have all the -
-references to the books that the library -
-used to have -
-inside those boxes and they're called -
-slim boxes because you can -
-insert stuff into the boxes and you can -
-remove stuff out of the boxes -
-now basically if I try -
-to summarize as simply as I may what the -
-zettel cast method -
-is about it's about having a way -
-to work with your notes which considers -
-elements of knowledge as atoms -
-so as something that is individual like -
-a single file -
-and you consider that in order to build -
-knowledge -
-you have to combine atoms together so -
-that -
-when you have one atom another atom -
-if you link them together you have a -
-complex -
-thought or a complex molecule -
-okay don't quote me on the chemistry by -
-the way I shall remind you I'm an -
-english major I have no idea what I'm -
-talking about -
-so how does it work as far as a -
-note-taking -
-system is concerned and to do so -
-I'm just going to switch really quickly -
-to my Emacs if I -
-may so I'm just going to screenshot -
-onto my mac just give me a second to get -
-the windows all right -
-okay it's loading up oh no -
-I think firefox has crashed again okay -
-so you're gonna have to give me a second -
-I need to figure this out -
-okay so everything is frozen right now -
-just to tell you so you're gonna have to -
-deal with my lovely voice -
-uh I mean can you confirm that if I -
-switch to a new ttr you can still hear -
-me -
-so can you still hear me now -
-okay so I'm gonna have probably to kill -
-firefox and log in again -
-so I'm sorry it's gonna cost us two -
-minutes but I'm gonna try to be as fast -
-as I can okay -
-okay no problem thanks -
-all right -
-I guess no event is a good one without -
-one or two technical difficulties -
-so I guess this is our share of -
-technical difficulties this year -
-no problem -
-all right guess who's back it's not -
-britney it's just me sadly so you're -
-gonna have to make do with me -
-welcome back well thank you I'm just -
-gonna turn back on the camera if I may -
-all righty -
-and I'm going to make myself a presenter -
-and I'm going to -
-share my screen with you sleep box -
-testing -
-hello -
-so if my calculations are correct you -
-should be able to see my monitor right -
-now -
-um yep but not your webcam feed -
-not my webcam feed okay so I'm going to -
-stop it -
-sorry for the little delay folks you -
-know it's uh -
-the show must go on can you see it now -
-um not yet still not -
-damn it can I stop it okay so I'm gonna -
-yeah maybe try like sharing a webcam -
-first -
-all right I'm back now so I'm going to -
-share my webcam first -
-okay -
-[Music] -
-all righty so can you confirm whenever -
-you've got my webcam working -
-let's see I don't see it yet -
-unfortunately oh it's loading up yeah -
-it's coming up -
-yep I can see it awesome all right okay -
-we're back on track I've got still eight -
-minutes left to do so I might have to -
-have a couple of minutes to my talk if -
-you don't mind and shave off some -
-questions -
-okay do you want to share okay yeah -
-I'm on my way too all right all right so -
-please forget -
-whatever whichever technical -
-difficulties we might have have had for -
-the last -
-three four minutes but we're back on -
-track now so -
-uh orgrom what is it and how does it -
-work so I was telling you all about -
-atoms and I was telling you about links -
-but how does it work concretely -
-so right now what you're seeing on your -
-screens -
-is a slip box which is what we the fancy -
-word that we use to designate your -
-folder -
-where all your notes are going to be -
-living so you have here and I hope you -
-can see my -
-uh cursor yes you can so we have a file -
-which is called -
-index.org and the good thing is -
-as you might have garnered by the fact -
-that it finishes by -
-that org is that it is just an old mod -
-file -
-so I can create a heading -
-I can create another heading and -
-everything works as you would expect it -
-to -
-it is completely it's just an awkward -
-file at the end of the day -
-so now what can we do with this -
-now I've told you about links and you do -
-know that -
-org mode has links so what we're going -
-to do -
-is that we're going to create a new file -
-so we're going to go back -
-to our directory and what I'm going to -
-do is that we have a special commands -
-actually let me just -
-show you my command I might help you a -
-little bit -
-see what I'm doing uh wait which is the -
-buffer -
-uh log mode yes exlog so now on the -
-right side of the monitor you'll be able -
-to see the command that I'm using -
-if you don't mind in order to have as -
-much realistic as possible I'm going to -
-make it a little bit shorter -
-smaller I should say is it not too small -
-yeah I believe it's good -
-so what I'm going to do is I'm going to -
-run a command -
-in orgrome which allows me to create a -
-new note -
-so I'm going to use my keybinding which -
-is not this one definitely -
-and I'm going to create a new file which -
-is in a -
-great tradition of examples in -
-programming I'm going to call -
-foo right so at the bottom -
-in the bottom buffer I should say you -
-are seeing the file -
-foo which is as you can see here a -
-capture buffer -
-just like you would have in blog mode -
-now what I'm going to do -
-is that I'm going to validate this file -
-and now -
-you see that we are in the file foo -
-and the good thing is that I can start -
-writing without having to worry -
-about anything else and I was thinking I -
-was going to say to say that I'm -
-showing off about my typing skills but I -
-did make mistakes so -
-well nobody's perfect right so now we do -
-have this view file and we're going to -
-go back to the index so let's go back to -
-the directory -
-we're going to refresh the file as you -
-can see we have a file which is called -
-foo -
-and we have the index so now what I'm -
-going to do -
-is that I'm going to insert a link to -
-this file -
-so we're going to run another orgrim -
-command which you can see here -
-orgrim inset and I'm going to insert a -
-link to the file -
-foo and as you can see it has now -
-appeared now what I'm going to do -
-I'm going to save the file and now I'm -
-going to show you -
-the little thing I told you about -
-backlinks before so I'm afraid I'm going -
-to have to hide -
-the commands for now but don't worry -
-I'll be back -
-and I'm going to show you the side -
-buffer -
-so it is the buffer that you see on the -
-right side of your screen -
-and right now it's telling you that -
-index does not have any backlink -
-which is normal but if we follow the -
-link -
-fu now you see something different on -
-the right side so as you can see on the -
-left side we're back insta inside the -
-file foo -
-but on the right side we have something -
-showing up -
-one backlink in the file index -
-in under the heading heading you have -
-the file -
-sorry the link foo and you can just open -
-the link -
-and you will be brought exactly where it -
-is so -
-okay so that was one thing now just -
-to make sure that you've understood -
-properly I'm going to go back to the -
-index -
-I'm going to create a second file -
-so now I'm going to use a command that -
-is slightly different so let me just uh -
-show you the commands on the right -
-I'm going to run the command orgrim -
-insert and I'm going to -
-end to enter a file which is called bar -
-so again at the bottom you can see that -
-I have a new file bar -
-I'm going to validate this file -
-okay I'm going to save index.org -
-and now if we go in bar and if I show -
-you -
-the links on the side you can see that -
-exactly the same we have a link -
-now just to make the pictures complete -
-inside the file bar I'm going to insert -
-a link to foo I'm going to save I'm -
-going to go to the file foo and now on -
-the right side -
-you can see that we have two backlinks -
-now you're gonna tell me yeah thank you -
-leo but -
-what's the point well the thing is -
-it might sound it might seem very simple -
-but I've just shown you -
-but programmatically it's a little hard -
-to do like we have to -
-look into your files to make sure that -
-every time you link your file -
-somewhere else we need to track -
-everything down -
-and now as simple as orgrum might be -
-looking to you -
-the thing is what we try to do with -
-orgrum -
-is to make sure that your collection of -
-notes -
-remains consistent whatever we do -
-an example for instance like right now -
-I've told you about a file named foo and -
-the file name -
-bar let's say that for whatever reason -
-you decide to rename your file foo to -
-something -
-very original let's just say bar -
-so we actually have a way in Emacs in -
-orgrim I should say -
-when you modify the title at the top of -
-the file -
-so we get foo I've modified it with baz -
-you can see at the bottom that right now -
-we haven't saved and we are still in the -
-file -
-fu.org I'm going to save -
-and now what you see is -
-a new name for the file but you may ask -
-wait a second in the other file we had a -
-link to this file -
-does it mean that it's broken does it -
-means does it mean sorry -
-that we cannot access the file anymore -
-but -
-when we go there beginning to go in the -
-index -
-so obviously the actual description of -
-the link hasn't been updated -
-but if I show you what goes on under the -
-hood by showing you -
-what is fontify what is behind the -
-content of the link -
-actually it didn't work and that's why -
-you never present live folks because -
-otherwise you're -
-just going to show problems with the -
-software and that's not good -
-so something must have gone on obviously -
-but generally speaking the file should -
-have been updated -
-damn I'm showing you bugging my software -
-that's not very professional now is it -
-basically to come back to the main id -
-what we try to do with orgrom is to make -
-sure that -
-everything remains consistent we -
-really much love the system of -
-organization that is behind this little -
-castle method -
-now I was going at this point of the -
-presentation basically I wanted to go -
-back to firefox -
-and show you more stuff but it's likely -
-that it's going to crash again -
-so I'm not going to tempt the devil and -
-I'm just going to continue talking to -
-you like that -
-so the zettelkasten method -
-is a very organic way -
-to write notes and if you think -
-I I believe as all mode users -
-we share quite a lot of features and I'm -
-out of time I'm just going to take one -
-more minute to answer this question -
-that I'm asking myself anyway but if -
-you're anything like me -
-you've you've been through many -
-iterations of your workflow inside of -
-mode -
-do I keep all my professional stuff -
-under one heading or do I create a -
-separate file for this -
-you know those types of questions on -
-which you could ponder for -
-many many hours at night generally when -
-you have a -
-tight deadline to be following but -
-what I've discovered by using orgrim for -
-taking notes about -
-my academic projects or by taking notes -
-on -
-you know anything worth writing about -
-is that not having to worry about the -
-structure if you files -
-just having to worry about atoms -
-and links it does wonder -
-for the way you think about problems it -
-does wonder about your creativity -
-and it does wonder about your ability to -
-take your thoughts put them on a paper -
-and generally you know during this -
-process you realize oh maybe I do not -
-know this concept as well as I should -
-but I've never had a system which -
-brought me -
-as much serendipity as this system -
-and for those who don't know serendipity -
-the ability to come up with novel ideas -
-on the spot contextually so -
-this was just a little primer on what -
-orgrom and the zettelkasten is about in -
-about -
-20 minutes I'll be giving you a talk -
-about the technical aspects of orgrim -
-which I'm certain -
-some of you will be very interested in -
-and -
-otherwise I do have a youtube channel -
-where I try to -
-record videos where I explain to you -
-what the org -
-what organ is about what the method is -
-about and -
-and I'll just finish on this I'm two -
-minutes extra time sorry -
-but um we do know that a lot of people -
-are interested into orgrim I mentioned -
-at the very beginning of the -
-presentation -
-that a lot of people discovered Emacs -
-and orgrom -
-and old mode even through orgrom -
-and we feel that we have a duty to -
-introduce those people this new pool of -
-people most of whom are -
-academics into the world of Emacs and -
-into the water free software -
-and right now the thing is we're not -
-doing a particularly good job at writing -
-manuals I'm just going to try -
-to stop sharing my screen because I'm -
-nearly to the end -
-and just try sharing my firefox windows -
-if it allows me no it doesn't allow me -
-which is very good that's why I won't -
-have to -
-to screw things up but -
-uh we know that our manual is not fully -
-up to date -
-but believe me one of the key focus -
-right now -
-is making sure that within two to three -
-months -
-we have a good tutorial for people to -
-join and we have good videos for people -
-to get introduced to the topics we're -
-covering -
-and that's me done so thank you so much -
-for listening and now I'll be taking -
-some questions -
-thank you very much leo oh thank you -
-cheers we have I think about two minutes -
-four questions and I see a lot of them -
-on the pad -
-would you take them sure so yep I'm -
-scrolling I'm scrolling -
-uh getting things done that's aldrich uh -
-still scrolling okay olgram oh wow okay -
-so we do have quite a lot of questions -
-so please excuse me if I'm answering -
-your questions really fast but I just -
-want to make sure that I cover -
-as much ground as possible so what is -
-the functionality of all chrome unlinked -
-references -
-so basically when you have a file that -
-is not linked anywhere -
-this function allows you to see uh let's -
-say we have a file Emacs -
-and we've talked about Emacs in another -
-note but we haven't created a link -
-what this command do is that it -
-looks into your folder for every mention -
-of Emacs that is not -
-linked to the note Emacs and it prints -
-all the results in the buffer so that -
-you know okay I've talked about Emacs -
-here but I didn't create a link -
-do I want to create a link that's it so -
-is it possible to use the backlinks -
-features -
-in regular old buffers right now no it -
-is not possible we are -
-having a very controlled environment -
-which is I told you about this clipbox -
-folder before -
-this is where we keep all the nodes and -
-the reason why we do this will be more -
-evident when I go through the technical -
-presentation -
-but uh it's because of optimization -
-so I'll get back to you on that -
-afterwards um -
-do you make all group database -
-accessible across computers -
-uh no I do not because I'm only using my -
-laptop but plenty of people have had -
-a lot of success doing so either by -
-sharing the files via a sync thing or by -
-any other -
-method we have a section in a manual -
-specifying how to do this uh how do you -
-discover the tags links to add to your -
-new algorithm note -
-there is something that I didn't tell -
-you about which is called orgrim server -
-which is a -
-magnificent way to uh access -
-visually the nodes that you have in your -
-in your system -
-you'll have to go to the orgrom.com -
-website -
-and please go on our github page and we -
-show everything and -
-um I hope what I've told you has excited -
-you so please go -
-uh maybe one more question two more -
-questions just to make sure uh is it -
-possible to seamlessly link to other -
-notes with syntax instead of a -
-keybinding -
-yes we are working on this this is a -
-huge project that we're doing with -
-orgrim which is called uh -
-link ux and we're trying to do something -
-which is very close to rome research -
-which is the software we're using for -
-inspiration for orgrom -
-and uh yes there's there are going to be -
-ways to do this in the future I'm going -
-to give you a window of -
-maybe three to four months and one last -
-question -
-uh good on you thank you well thank you -
-for for this -
-is there an easy way to export several -
-selected nodes to say a lattice file -
-latex yes uh I mean it's old mode -
-at the very core it is org mode so you -
-know you don't -
-if you want to export to latex file you -
-can you just use the -
-aux latex library which you can access -
-by pressing ctrl c ctrl -
-e for export all right is it uh I -
-believe I'm -
-it's all the time I had I mean can you -
-confirm this -
-okay so if you have more questions don't -
-worry I'll be in chat -
-I'll be answering them uh I'm also on on -
-all the platforms we advertise on on -
-orgram if you want to reach me I'm -
-really easy to reach -
-our gita page is always open so thank -
-you all for -
-all your questions and all your energy -
-about orgrim it is very exciting for me -
-to to see all this -
-but right now I'll be ending off the -
-microphone I should say to nura who is -
-going to talk to you about the -
-academic way to use orgrom and I'll be -
-back afterwards with the technical talk -
-okay thank you thank you very much leo -
-see you later guys -- cgit v1.2.3