Tag Archives: Org-mode

Useful Emacs and Org-mode Features

Karl Voit gave an excellent talk at Grazer Linuxtage 2021 on some Org Mode features that you may not know. The talk also covered some Emacs features that he uses to enhance his workflow. He has an outline of the … Continue reading

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Writing Technical Documents with Org Mode

alpha2phi has a nice post on writing documentation with Emacs and Org-mode. The post is reminiscent of Mike Hamrick’s video on keeping technical documents consistent and uses some of the same techniques. Alpha2phi starts with importing Fabrice Niessen’s excellent ReadTheOrg … Continue reading

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An Org Workflow

Luca Cambiaghi, a data scientist from Copenhagen, has a post on his Org-mode workflow. He’s got three problems to solve: He doesn’t know when a particular task needs to be worked on. He forgets to check on tasks that need … Continue reading

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Org Mode 9.4.5 Released

Bastien Guerry tweets that Org 9.4.5 is out: #emacs #orgmode 9.4.5, a bugfix release, is out. Enjoy! Also check announcements for 9.5 on https://t.co/CRNe0q0Kvv 👉 a new Org contrib package will be distributed via NonGNU ELPA and Org ELPA won’t … Continue reading

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How to Implement a Zettelkasten Link Type in Org

Christian Tietze is an author at the zettelkasten.de site and, of course, keeps his notes in a Zettelkasten. He has his own app, The Archive, for that but he’s also an Emacs user. He uses a timestamp as a key … Continue reading

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Customizing the Agenda

If you’re an Org-mode user you’ve probably seen some of the custom Agenda displays that enterprising users have created. They can be useful for those who like to organize their activities and use the Agenda as a portal into that … Continue reading

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Exporting Org to HTML

Jake B has a helpful video on exporting Org files to HTML. Irreal readers almost certainly knows how to do this so why am I writing about it? As you know, you can tweak your Org file to pull in … Continue reading

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An Example of Literate Programming

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m ambivalent about literate programming. I love the idea of it and absolutely agree with all its claimed strengths but I’ve never been able to embrace it in practice. The major problem, I think, is that … Continue reading

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Sending HTML Mail With Mu4e

Like all right thinking people, I abhor HTML emails but that’s a ship that sailed long ago and there’s not much choice other than grudging acceptance. The virtuous can, of course, continue to send plain text but sometimes your content … Continue reading

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Editing Anki Cards with Org Mode

I have a post in the queue that discusses spaced repetition and how to use Anki to realize it. Emacs, of course, has org-drill, which by all reports is an excellent implementation of spaced repetition but suffers from not being … Continue reading

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