Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > Vikas Rawal <vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org> writes: > >>> One remedy, to this, and a thing I think would be nice in any case, >>> would be if keywords in the presenting sentence would link to (worg?) >>> feature pages. >> >> Another possibility would be to make the title just say "Org mode". >> >> And the first headline, before "Download and install", be something >> like the following: >> >> * Org mode is useful for >> ** Organising projects >> ** Maintaining TODO lists and calendars >> ** Keeping notes >> ** Creating high quality formatted documents >> ** Literate programming >> >> Each of the above could then be linked to relevant pages of the manual >> or worg. > > I like this -- it seems like the best crash-landing strategy for > new users is to give them a single comforting phrase to look at (I liked > the old "your life in plain text"), and then a concise list of things > that org does, like the above.
When description becomes boring what is needed is a catchy phrase that stirs up imagination. "Free/Libre Digital diary for DIY nuts/ Gen Z geeks/ nerds" Freemind can create nice looking Mindmaps. May be the above outline can be converted to a freemind which expands and shrinks magically. ps: I have org-e-freemind.el based on new exporter almost done. It just requires some tweaking before it lands. --