Tag Archives: Org-mode

Tracking Tax Documents With Org Mode

As I’ve written many times, I use Org mode to organize a ridiculous percentage of my life and can’t imagine living without it. It’s just so powerful that I keep finding new uses for it. The problem is, though, it’s … Continue reading

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Adding A Thesaurus To Emacs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has been doing more writing lately and has felt the need for a thesaurus. I very seldom use a thesaurus for reasons that I’ve written about previously but it’s sometimes convenient to have one. My typical use … Continue reading

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Org Novelist

As many of you know, I’m fascinated by those who use Emacs for projects that don’t involve science or engineering. One such aspect that I always enjoy reading about is using Emacs for creative writing, by which I mean novels, … Continue reading

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Web Scraping With Org Mode

Beetle_b has an interesting short post, about scraping a Web site, that outlines a technique that may be useful to some Irreal readers. The TL;DR was that he wanted to capture and print the content from a Web page that … Continue reading

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Using Org Mode

Aditya Athalye has a long(ish) and interesting post on how he uses org mode for writing and more. Like many of us, Athalye has used a lot of apps for keeping notes and publishing his blog and slides for his … Continue reading

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Org Pretty Table

Just a quickie today about something you may or may not care about. The reason you may not care about it is that it only affects the display of your local Org buffer—in particular, the display of tables. If you’re … Continue reading

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Pretty Org Reports

Torstein Krause Johansen has a short video up on how he makes his Org reports pretty. It’s really pretty simple and not at all mysterious: he writes his Org as usual but adds a bit of CSS. Of course, that … Continue reading

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Debugging With Org-babel

Wade Mealing has an interesting article on using org-babel for the analysis of Linux kernel bugs. Mealing is a Red Hat engineer and involved with tracking down problems in the Linux kernel. He has a more-or-less fixed procedure for doing … Continue reading

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Leaving Deft for Vanilla Emacs

The title almost doesn’t make sense. After all, if you’re using Deft, you’re ipso facto using Emacs. James Dyer explains it in a way that makes sense. The TL;DR is that although he has been using Deft, he’s decided to … Continue reading

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Org Mode For Project Breakdown and Estimation

Over at In a stream of Random Thoughts .. there’s an interesting post on using Emacs and Org mode for breaking down and estimating projects. The idea is that each new project is given an Org file that breaks down … Continue reading

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