Tag Archives: Org-mode

Just a quickie today courtesy of Mario Jason Braganza. Like most developers, Braganza is lazy in that good way that makes us search out ways to automate mundane tasks. Sometimes the automation doesn’t save much—or even any—time; it’s the principal … Continue reading →

Matus Goljer (Fuco1), whose work I’ve written about many times before, has an interesting post on his use of org-attach. The point of the post is a way of automating the finding of the Org headline that points to an … Continue reading →

If you do even a little writing in Org mode, you’ve almost certainly needed to occasionally typeset a word or sequence of words in a typewriter font. This, at least for me, comes up in two ways: I want to … Continue reading →

As long term Irreal readers know, I was trained as a mathematician and later became a computer software engineer so you’d think I’d be pretty good at generating plots: Nope. I’m terrible at it. My go to tool is Gnuplot, … Continue reading →

Over at (:doom discourse), Mediapathic has a very nice post on using (Doom) Emacs for prose writing. He’s a writer currently working on a book so he can offer firsthand experience. The unifying theme of his post is using the … Continue reading →

Dominik Honnef has a nifty post that describes his Org-roam based workflow for taking notes and writing articles. It’s a very thorough and complex system that captures notes, articles that he reads on the web, articles for his blog, and … Continue reading →

I have a longstanding fascination with document layout. It’s something I first learned from Rich Stevens. His books were always visually beautiful with a layout that showed an obsessive attention to detail. Fortunately, he wrote about his process extensively on … Continue reading →

Sacha Chua has a problem. From an Org file, she’d like to link to and possibly include a set of consecutive lines in another (or, I suppose, the same) file. The problem is that the target file may not be … Continue reading →

Nicolas Martyanoff has a (very) short post on some tips for dealing with Org mode headlines. There are three of them: Do not split lines when adding headlines This is a way to add another headline even if you are … Continue reading →