Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi everyone, > > today I looked at our tutorial page at > > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/index.html > > and came away with the feeling that that this page has become > somewhat useless for people who are really new to Org. I think > the page should start with a section of true recommendations > for beginners, a path we tell every new users to take in order to > learn about Org mode. > > Can we have a discussion here on how this path should look like? > When you came to Org-mode as a newby, what were the three resources > that really made an impression on by being accessible and > providing feel and promise for digging deeper? > > - Carsten
My feeling is, the tutorial structure might look like this: Start with the basics: outlining and structure editing, plus introductions to links and properties. Then four other tutorials, presented in no particular order: 1. TODOs/agendas/task management (plus clocking) 2. Exporting 3. Babel 4. Tables/spreadsheets Those four areas seem pretty distinct and independent to me (except there's special cross-over between exporting and babel blocks). Any given prospective org user will probably immediately gravitate to one or more areas, leaving the others for later. Personally, I immediately jumped into task management, then went to exporting, and I've only ever dabbled in babel and spreadsheets. I think it would be good to keep these areas fairly self-contained. 2 cents, Eric
