Monthly Archives: January 2017

A PSA from Sacha

Posted on 2017-01-11 by jcs

Here’s a useful public service announcement from Sacha Chua: Need to troubleshoot Org Mode publishing, such as broken links? Org 9 has org-lint. Handy! — Sacha Chua (@sachac) January 10, 2017

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Mobile Org on iOS

Posted on 2017-01-10 by jcs

If you live in the Apple world and are an Org mode user, here a bit of good news. The iOS MobileOrg maintainer has announced that he and others are resurrecting the iOS Mobile Org app. I keep seeing queries … Continue reading →

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Capturing Gcal for Display in Emacs

Posted on 2017-01-09 by jcs

Ben Maughan has a post that represents another way of integrating Gcal into Emacs. In my first two posts on this, we looked at how Rainer König and Mike Zamansky imported their Google Calendars into their Org agendas. Maughan has … Continue reading →

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Elisp Text Processing Idioms

Posted on 2017-01-08 by jcs

The hard part of learning Elisp is not the syntax. Being Lisp, the syntax is trivial and takes about 10 minutes to learn. The real problem is learning the library and, perhaps even more difficult, the proper idioms for getting … Continue reading →

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By the Way

Posted on 2017-01-07 by jcs

On Tuesday, I wrote about my discovery of org-next-link and how it quickly became my go to method of navigating to Org links. Today, my target link was before the point and it suddenly dawned on me that there was … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 26: Syncing with Gcal

Posted on 2017-01-06 by jcs

The other day I wrote about Rainer König’s video on syncing Gcal with Org agenda. Serendipitously, Mike Zamansky just posted a video on the same subject. Zamansky solves the problem in a different way so it’s definitely worth watching his … Continue reading →

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Indexing Org Files with a Database

Posted on 2017-01-05 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about how Karl Voit uses an Org file to index his other Org files. It’s a nice scheme that’s light weight and easy to understand and it fits in well with his Memacs system. John … Continue reading →

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Syncing GCal with Your Org Agenda

Posted on 2017-01-04 by jcs

Rainer König has the latest video in his OrgMode Tutorial series up. This time it’s about synching Google calendar to the Org agenda. Many folks, even those who otherwise live in Emacs, prefer to maintain a separate calendar. Most calendar … Continue reading →

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Fast Opening an Org Index File

Posted on 2017-01-03 by jcs

I’ve written before about Karl Voit’s Memacs system. It’s basically a set of programs that collects all his daily data—phone calls, emails, photographs, texts, bank statements, git commits, and so on—stores it in Org files and then makes it available … Continue reading →

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Terminal vs. GUI Emacs

Posted on 2017-01-02 by jcs

The Emacs subreddit has an excellent thread on terminal versus GUI for Emacs. It started when iamquah asked if there were any large disadvantages to running Emacs in a terminal rather than using the GUI version. He’s a recent convert … Continue reading →

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