Amish Computing (forked from:Question: What software is absolutely essential to you)

Posted by Zman
Aug 13, 2011 at 08:26 PM

>After a bit of
>research, I decided to try out Emacs Org-mode. Wow, you talk about power, it oozes
>power beyond all reality. The excitement grew, and next thing I know, I’m proudly
>showing off my org-mode usage to co-workers, who often asked “Are you writing code
>these days?”.
>

Real Amish mode for me is fountain pen and notebook.
In my thinking, Org-mode and tools like the mathmatica add-on (an interesting thing to play with BTW) are the antithesis of Amish computing. I think of Amish computing as Linux, some file folders, a basic text editor, and grep. Or DOS equivalents (used to be no equivalent to grep - there is now, you could use Powershell or any of several others).

Having grown up on punch cards and then DOS, I have no particular desire to go to text - I like playing with new toys - and I play and think in multidimensional networks of thoughts, so flat text files are uninteresting…

Now if we could combine connectedtext, Personalbrain, and zoot xt together into one product then all would be well…