Category Archives: General

Ten Tools for Academics

Posted on 2018-03-08 by jcs

Over at Academia Obscura they have a list of 10 essential tools for academics and PhD students. It’s a useful list but my immediate reaction upon reading it was that you can do all that with Emacs. Well, you can’t … Continue reading →

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The Smartphone as Part of Your Mind

Posted on 2018-03-07 by jcs

Karina Vold over at the Sigularity Hub has a thought provoking article on the extent to which your smartphone is part of your mind. At first, it seems like a silly idea except in a trivial sense. But as Vold … Continue reading →

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A Return to Emacs

Posted on 2018-03-06 by jcs

John Goerzen has returned to Emacs after a decade of being a Vim user. His reason for doing so is Org mode. If all you want from your editor is to edit, Vim is hard to beat: it’s fast, loads … Continue reading →

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A Sound Investment

Posted on 2018-03-05 by jcs

How much would you pay for Org mode? $10? $25? $100? More? Well fortunately you don’t have to pay anything at all because, of course, Org mode is free software in all senses of the word “free.” Still, free software … Continue reading →

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UPSide Project Update

Posted on 2018-03-04 by jcs

I’ve written a couple of times about Eric Raymond’s (esr) project to design and build an open source UPS power supply. Esr has posted an update on the project. The TL;DR is that they now have all the necessary engineers … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 44: A PDF-view Workflow

Posted on 2018-03-03 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video in his Using Emacs Series available for viewing. This video demonstrates the PDF-view workflow that he developed to help him deal with applications to an honors program at Hunter College. I really like this video … Continue reading →

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Reasons to Switch to Emacs

Posted on 2018-03-01 by jcs

The other day I came across this video by Luke Smith challenging the rest of the world to convince him to switch from Vim to Emacs. He was very specific: he wanted videos showing Emacs in action that offer cogent … Continue reading →

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A Reproducible Research Toolkit

Posted on 2018-02-28 by jcs

José A. Alonso’s tweet: Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for research writing in social sciences (A toolkit for writing reproducible research papers and monographs). ~ Vikas Rawal https://t.co/QaG4Ifq3Kh #Emacs #OrgMode #Rstats — José A. Alonso (@Jose_A_Alonso) February 26, 2018 led … Continue reading →

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A Nice Mu4e Configuration

Posted on 2018-02-27 by jcs

Steckerhalter tweets about configuring his mu4e configuration for multiple accounts. Whew, that took me a while to setup mu4e with multiple accounts correctly. But now it works like a pro. I even wrote a macro to create the contexts: https://t.co/CwPyEXYUO3 … Continue reading →

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Org Spreadsheet Cheat Sheet

Posted on 2018-02-26 by jcs

Yesterday, I pointed to Marcin Borkowski’s tip for easily entering formulae in Org mode tables. For most of us, Org tables provide all the spreadsheet functionality we need. I don’t remember the last time I fired up an actual spreadsheet. … Continue reading →

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