Discovering Hyperbole
I'm hopelessly addicted to tinkering. I've spent many mornings doing exactly that. One of the things that I thinker with almost every day is my Emacs config. I go through phases of compulsively trying to find better ways of doing things. Finding interesting new packages to try is a big part of that.
It was no different yesterday. But yesterday is also the day I discovered Hyperbole1, and like many others before me, I don't fully understand it. I'm not sure how this has escaped my radar so far though.
I watched one of the introduction videos and I could see that it is very powerful, but I can't think of a way to embed this into my day to day workflow.
John Wiegley seems to have an answer to that 2
Hyperbole can seem hard to grasp at first, because it's not a traditional piece of software offering functionality you don't already have. Instead, it takes something you have a lot of -- information accessible from Emacs -- and simply makes it more useful. It also comes with a few other packages, such as an outliner and window manager, but these are orthogonal to the fundamental problem Hyperbole hopes to solve.
Seems like it is one of those things that I can only find out by trying it for myself. So I'll be doing that some time this week.