Tag Archives: Org-mode

Is Org Mode Better For Writers

Chris Maiorana has an interesting post that asks if Org mode is better for writers. He starts with the beginning of Ambrose Bierce’s story A Watcher By The Dead displayed in Libre Office and notes that LibreOffice will do everything … Continue reading →

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Noweb as glue

Álvaro Ramírez has a revealing post about using noweb with Org mode in an unusual way. Most of us think of noweb as a way of doing Literate Programming. It enables the insertion of previously named text in another place. … Continue reading →

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Org Mode Clock Checks

I’ve had this in my blog queue for sometime but before I could get to it, Sacha ran with it in her Emacs News post. I was going to forego mentioning it but after my Clocktables post, I decided that … Continue reading →

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Prot Video on Org Mode

After watching and writing about Protesilaos Stavrou’s video on searching and replacing in Emacs, I went back and watched his previous video on Org mode basics. Although I’m late to the party with this post, the video is interesting enough … Continue reading →

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Clocktables

Over at the Straightforward Emacs channel, Jake B. has an informative video on Org mode clocktables. Most Org mode users knows that you can clock in and out of Org headings giving you a way of tracking the time you … Continue reading →

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Org Remark

If you’re the type of person who likes to annotate files but keep your notes external to the file itself, you may be interested in nobiot’s org-remark. There are a couple of videos [1, 2] that show how it works … Continue reading →

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Org Blk URI

Just a quickie. I stumbled across a post from Andrea that describes his package Org Blk URI. It’s pretty simple: it’s just a way of extracting the content at a URL into an Org source block. That’s handy for capturing … Continue reading →

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Org Footnote Assistant

Andrea Lazzarini has an interesting, small package to help with footnote creation and editing in Org buffers. The package offers some amenities such as easily moving between footnotes but, to me, the major win is displaying or editing a footnote … Continue reading →

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Generating Documents Directly From Elisp

I’ve had this in my blog queue since April but it’s too good to let it fall into the bit bucket. Álvaro Ramírez has a problem with his chatgpt-shell package. He has some documentation in the form of tables, which … Continue reading →

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Converting an Excel Spreadsheet to an Org Table

I no longer use spreadsheets and haven’t for a long time. I don’t think there are any spreadsheet instances on any of my computers and if there are, they are relics from the mists of time. Any spreadsheet operations that … Continue reading →

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