Deft -- easy note taking for Emacs

It's when I see gems like these that I feel like spending time to learn emacs. I've tried a couple of times.. but it is so damn hard. I feel like vim keybindings are burnt in my memory/fingers.. and it makes it so unproductive to relearn something totally different. Any vim power user successfully switched to Emacs? If so, did you switch back missing Vim or you're still using emacs and couldn't be happier? (I'm still interested in the reverse side.. where Emacs power users switched back to vim).

Available via Marmalade as well: <a href="http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/deft" rel="nofollow">http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/deft</a><p>Just spent a few minutes playing around with it. I like the simplicity, nice work. One thought I had is that you could enter Deft mode whenever you cd into a directory with a .deft configuration file. This file could have a title for the top of the Deft view and perhaps the ability to specify what columns you want displayed. In this way you can have different directories for notes about different topics.

If you are a vim user, I recommend vimwiki: <a href="http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2226" rel="nofollow">http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2226</a>

My notes have gotten pretty extensive and sprawling, so I have a cron job which every hour indexes all org-mode and python files with swish[1]. It's pretty hacky, but I've integrated this with emacs's dired-mode, so that I get a clickable list[2]. It's an absolute life saver, at times.<p><pre><code> [1] http://swish-e.org/docs/swish-search.html [2] http://pastebin.com/xeDbjKhA</code></pre>

Hmm. Deft, org-mode, Dropbox, and MobileOrg might just made the perfect desktop/mobile note system. Definitely setting this one up!

I use <a href="https://github.com/cefstat/simplenote.el" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cefstat/simplenote.el</a> to synchronize with simplenote service and on mobile device and Notational Velocity.<p>Deft seems little more refined, and simplenote.el has not been updated for a while, but would be nice if it synced with simplenote.

If you need a bit more, that is, todo lists, planning, etc. while keeping a way to easily edit text documents, you also have Org-Mode <a href="http://orgmode.org/" rel="nofollow">http://orgmode.org/</a><p>Do not try to setup Org-Mode if you are new to Emacs, you will feel a bit overwhelmed (at least I was), but once you get used to Emacs and Org-Mode, it is a pleasure to use it. I use it for GTD, day planner and notes taking like here: <a href="http://notes.ceondo.com" rel="nofollow">http://notes.ceondo.com</a>

Why are the rows hard-set to 80 columns? Is there a way to change this value, or better yet, have it auto-fill to the width of the window?

Thank you so much for this. This immediately replaced my usage of org-velocity. I used this function to convert my (10,000 line) velocity.org file into separate files for Deft:<p><pre><code> (defun generate-files-from-velocity (buffername) (save-excursion (switch-to-buffer buffername) (org-map-entries (lambda () (progn (org-mark-subtree) (if (and (= 1 (org-outline-level)) (org-export-get-title-from-subtree)) (let* ((title (downcase (org-export-get-title-from-subtree))) (filename (replace-regexp-in-string " " "-" (concat title ".org")))) (append-to-file (region-beginning) (region-end) (concat "~/Documents/Org/Notes/" filename))))))))) (generate-files-from-velocity "velocity.org")</code></pre>

no org-mode support?