Tag Archives: Org-mode

Bastien writes to tell us that Org-mode 9.5 has been released. The big thing about the release is the new citation engine but there are lots of other changes too. You can see what’s in the new release by perusing … Continue reading →

The other day, I wrote about line drawing tools in Emacs. For those who like interactive systems, I mentioned ditaa, which takes an ASCII art diagram and turns it into a pretty PNG file. AKIYAMA Kouhei (misohena) has a project … Continue reading →

The other day, I saw this tweet from John Cook’s TeX Tips Twitter account: Spanish punctuation: Can use !` and ?` for inverted exclamation points and question marks. — TeX and Typography (@TeXtip) September 24, 2021 I was vaguely aware … Continue reading →

I’m Bmax has a post about his journey to find the perfect way to track his time. Like almost everyone else, he started with a spreadsheet but if you’ve ever done that you know what a pain it is and … Continue reading →

Peter Prevos has a nice post in his using Emacs to be more productive series. The post, Ricing Org Mode: A Beautiful Writing Environment, discusses how to make the org-mode buffer “prettier.” It’s very much like Abhinav Tushar’s post that … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about David Wilson’s video on getting started with Org-roam. That video provided the information you need to get Org-roam set up and to start taking notes. Now he has a follow on video … Continue reading →

Yesterday, we took a quick look at the new Org-cite functionality. It’s been merged into Master and will doubtless see its official release with Org 9.5. In the mean time, John Kitchin is busy reimagining his wonderful org-ref package to … Continue reading →

As I’ve said before, one of the worst parts of preparing a paper for publication is dealing with the bibliography. LaTeX has reasonably efficient ways of inserting and referencing citations but there’s been no effective way of using them from … Continue reading →

David Wilson over at the YouTube System Crafters channel has a new video up on getting started with Org-roam and building a second brain. It’s the best introductory video I’ve seen on Org-roam and, of course, Wilson is promising more. … Continue reading →

The other day, I wrote about Wouter Spekkink’s Org-mode setup for writing academic papers and promised to followup with Jonathan Bennett’s post on the same subject from a couple of years ago. As I started to prepare my post on … Continue reading →