Tag Archives: Org-mode

The other day I wrote about Kaushal Modi’s post on Advice Combinators. Modi has another post that uses that information but the post is interesting in its own right. The problem is to fold (or collapse) headings having a certain … Continue reading →

Yesterday I saw this tweet: Org Mode is a GNU Emacs major mode for keeping notes, authoring documents, computational notebooks, literate programming, maintaining to-do lists, planning projects, and more — in a fast and effective plain text system. #Orgmode 9.5.4, … Continue reading →

If you’ve been around Irreal for a while you know that I love reading about how people are using Emacs for non-engineering/scientific purposes such as creative writing. It’s hardly a surprise that creative writers, for example, find Emacs a superb … Continue reading →

Tony Aldon has been busy posting informative articles to the Emacs reddit. One of his latest discusses org-open-at-point-global, a way of following a link formatted in Org syntax even if it’s not within an Org buffer. That’s something I didn’t … Continue reading →

As most of you know, I’m a big fan of the Zettelkasten idea and of its org-roam implementation in Emacs. There are several videos on org-roam, including the System Crafter series, that will help you get started. Matt Williams also … Continue reading →

Jack Baty has a post on how he logs the books he’s read. Logging books you read may be useful information to keep but it’s probably not all that interesting to others. What is interesting, though, is how he uses … Continue reading →

It’s a commonplace in the Emacs community that one of the big advantages of Emacs is that all your tools are connected and work with each other. Those of us at the extreme edge of that truism make it a … Continue reading →

I somehow missed this yesterday but Bastien has announced the release of Org-mode 9.5.3. It’s a bug release so it’s probably not urgent to install it unless you’re being bitten by one of the bugs. Bantien’s announcement notes that the … Continue reading →

Garjola Dindi has a very interesting post on using Calibre from within Emacs. Dindi already read his books from within Emacs using nov.el for Epubs and pdf-tools for PDFs but because he manages his library with Calibre, he had to … Continue reading →

Knowledge workers—which includes engineers, of course—often find they’re trying to hold too much information in their heads. When that happens, they frequently turn to what’s popularly known as a “second brain”. This can take many forms. There are dedicated applications, … Continue reading →