Tag Archives: Org-mode

Org Mode Summary

I recently saw this Org-mode summary from the Linux Journal mentioned in a tweet. It’s pretty old—from 2007—but still serves as a useful introduction to some of Org-mode’s power. If you’ve never used Org-mode, this article will give you a … Continue reading

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A Small But Nice Change to the Org-Mode Build Process

As regular readers know, I’m a great admirer of Org-mode; I use it everyday to, among other things, write these blog posts, maintain my todo list, manage projects, and keep several other files up to date. I generally track the … Continue reading

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Org Mode And Living Documents

Vsevolod Dyomkin over at Lisp, The Universe and Everything has another in his series of interviews with Lisp hackers. This time it’s with Christophe Rhodes, the principal maintainer of SBCL. It’s an interesting interview and well worth a read so … Continue reading

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Note Taking With Org

I written a few posts recently about how I use Org mode to organize my projects and life (1, 2) so of course I was interested to see Da Zhang’s post on how he uses org-mode as the ultimate note … Continue reading

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Sending Mail Semi-Programmatically In Emacs

I have an ongoing project that I manage with an Org mode file. The file has the structure * [2012-03-21 Wed] ** Second Level Headline Some information about the second level headline … where the level one headlines are the … Continue reading

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Org-Drill

When I was browsing Hacker News today, I stumbled upon a neat Org mode extension called org-drill. The idea is that it implements an electronic version of flash cards that are useful for learning vocabulary or other facts. Obviously, this … Continue reading

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Reproducible Science

Ars Technica has an interesting article up entitled Nature Editorial: If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source. I’ve written a couple of times about reproducible research and how Emacs and Org Mode make it particularly … Continue reading

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Multiple Editors And Markdown

I’ve written many, many times about how much I love writing in Org mode. I write a plain text file that I can then export to HTML, LaTeX, or several other formats. I can even, theoretically, write an Org mode … Continue reading

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More Org Header Searching

The little Org-mode header searching functions that I wrote about in Finding Org Headers And Links turned out to be pretty useful so I added another one. This function is like find-all-org-headers except that it limits the search to those … Continue reading

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A Short Coda To Yesterday’s Post

Yesterday I wrote about Finding Org Headers And Links and gave some Elisp functions to aid in searching for them. Today, my bank statement came and I entered information from the statement into my Org tax file. The tax file … Continue reading

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