Tag Archives: Org-mode

Attaching Files to an Org Tree from Dired

Daniel Gopar offers up this gem on attaching Dired files to an Org-mode tree: #orgtip: Found this little nugget that I didn’t know existed. You can attach files from a dired buffer to an #orgmode tree.https://t.co/iTfBLHBvVm#emacs — Daniel Gopar (@pygopar) … Continue reading

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Five Hacks for Org Roam

David Wilson of the System Crafters Channel has a new video in his Build a Second Brain playlist. The serious is about Org-roam, and is, as I’ve said before, the best introduction to and guide for setting up Org-roam that … Continue reading

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Orgdown

This is another post that discusses a talk from EmacsConf 2021. This one, by Karl Voit, is about the Org-mode markup language. Org markup is superior to its competitors—sorry Markdowners, you know it is—but suffers from the fact that it’s … Continue reading

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Org Executables

Over the weekend, the 2021 EmacsConf took place and presented a slue of great talks. Irreal will mention at least a couple of them starting with Tom Gillespie’s astounding talk on how to make Org files executable. The first question … Continue reading

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Plain Org

For us Emacers, one of the longstanding shortcomings of iOS and, to a lesser extent, the Android ecosystem is the lack of an Emacs app. There are several Org-mode centered apps that allow you to perform various Org functions on … Continue reading

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Taking Math Notes With LaTeX in Emacs

Two and a half years ago, I wrote about Gilles Castel’s astounding ability to take math notes at speed using LaTeX and Vim. As someone who once came perilously close to being lapped on a three panel blackboard by a … Continue reading

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The Scimax Channel

As I noted previously, John Kitchin has been busy making and posting videos about Scimax, his Emacs starter kit targeted at scientists and engineers involved in programming and publishing. There are so many videos that I can’t hope to comment … Continue reading

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Emacs as a Tool for Scientists

Recently, John Kitchin tweeted a pointer to the draft of a paper by Timonthy Johnson that makes the case for Emacs as the tool for scientists to organize and report their research. The paper, Emacs as a Tool for Modern … Continue reading

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Scimax Notebook

As I’ve said before, John Kitchin is producing so many videos that it’s hard to keep up. One of his recent videos is about Scimax Notebook, his implementation of digital notebooks based on Projectile, Bozhidar Batsov’s project interaction package. In … Continue reading

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Playing and Logging a Random Album

Garjola Dindi has a delightful blog entry on how he leverages Emacs to enjoy his music. Dindi was nostalgic for the days when listening to music meant putting a vinyl disk on the record player. Back then, the friction of … Continue reading

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