Org Mode in Vim

So emacs has this awesome tool called orgmode that I recently saw in use. It really impressed me, especially the versatility of it. Problem is, its emacs and I'm already a vim fan boy.

So what's the next best option? Easy, look for a vim plugin, and oh boy did I get one... vim-orgmode.

It isn't perfect, heck I'd even suggest that you use the original orgmode if you really want it. But here's how I go about using orgmode:

First install it. When using vundle( I use vundle as my plugin manager), just place the line below in the .vimrc file.

Plugin 'jceb/vim-orgmode'

Then here are a few commands that will make life a breeze:

help vim-ormode "tutorial doc. You should really start here.
/hh "create a title
/cn "create a check list
/sa "create a date
/cc "mark check list as done
tab "unfold/ fold trees

So here's how I work: I create a daily document at ~/ that has the date of the current day. Something like plan_sun_05_01_2016.org Within that folder I create a tree of various plans I'd like to do Something like

* Plan for day 
** Morning tasks [/]
** Server setup [/]
** Research [/]
** Night tasks [/]

The [/] is just a way to keep a track of the subtasks on the major tasks. I then write out the subtasks. This is accomplished by \cn just below the subtask. The [/] will also be autofilled by vim. I can end up with a document that looks like this:

* Task for the day
** Morning Tasks [2/3]
   - [X] Exercise
   - [X] Eat breakfast
   - [ ] Read emails
** Server setup [0/3]
   - [ ] Buy account
   - [ ] Set up apache
   - [ ] Set up mysql
** Research [0/2]
   - [ ] How to use org mode
   - [ ] Wrtiing vim scripts
** Night tasks [0/2]
   - [ ] Read book
   - [ ] Write blog post

There are a couple of things happening above here.

The [2/3] is auto generated, and each time to add an item or mark an item with /cc it is updated.

Once I got the hang of it all, I read the docs a bit more. I got a means of adding orgmodes into the global something so that I can access their details wherever I want.

let g:org_agenda_files = ['~/org/index.org','~/org/projects.org']

Once that is set in my .vimrc, whenever I am in any org file, I can just type "\caa" to list all items for the current week and "\cat" to view all todos for the week. It just scans through the files in the list shown above.