John Kitchin, who in addition to being a professor with all the work that that entails, has been busy showing us how to leverage Emacs to ease our work flows. If you’re a helm user, Kitchin has some nice Elisp that makes it easy to go wherever he needs to go for his normal tasks.
That includes things like reading email, his elfeed feed, his calendar, and so on. He has shortcuts to all his frequently used files as well as his recently used files.
The amazing thing about the code is how simple it is. If you steal it, you’ll want to adjust it for your particular work flow but the simplicity of the code should make that easy for anyone with even modest Elisp skills.
I do a lot of this with bookmarks (which Kitchin also handles) and by just leaving my frequently used files in buffers. If I had helm installed, I’d have already stolen his code. It might be enough to get me to embrace helm. I hear nothing but good things about it but ido and smex are working well for me and seem natural by now. I’d be happy to hear from anyone who has some wisdom on the matter. Leave a comment. It’s free.