Tag Archives: Org-mode

Alex Kladov has a post that discusses various markup languages and what makes a great one. He considers Markdown AsciiDoctor LaTeX reStructuredText HTML He finds them all lacking in various ways. He believes that any markup that’s tied to a … Continue reading →

Erik L. Arneson has a useful post that describes his method of converting an Org document to DOCX. His reason for doing that is the usual: his clients want a Word document but like all right thinking people, Arneson prefers … Continue reading →

Andrey Listopadov has (yet another) post on blogging with Hugo. His post is distinguished by his attempt to be comprehensive. He says that when he was trying to start blogging all the “how to” posts were too shallow to be … Continue reading →

Marcin Borkowski often watches long YouTube videos (frequently lectures) and sometimes can’t watch the whole thing in a single sitting. A couple of weeks ago, he wrote a post about capturing the elapsed play time where he left off and … Continue reading →

Karl Voit has reposted an article from 2018 on using Org-mode to organize your life. Voit, as many of you know, is very interested in personal information managers (PIMs) and curating information for later retrieval. He says that when he … Continue reading →

Gavin Freeborn posted a video in which he argues that Org-mode is easy. The reason it’s easy, he says, is the same as I’ve often written: You don’t have to learn it all or even large parts of it to … Continue reading →

If you’re like me and want to do all your writing from within Org-mode, one problem you need to solve is how to write letters—especially professional letters. I use a LaTeX template and write the letter in LaTeX but mostly … Continue reading →

Charanjit Singh has an interesting post on extending org-mode to handle youtube links. His goal was two-fold: Have an Org link type for Youtube videos that opened the video in mpv instead of the browwser When exporting to HTML the … Continue reading →

Matt Young over at Code Thrasher describes his bespoke notetaking workflow based on Org-mode. Rather than depend on packages like Org-roam for things such as backlinks, Young implemented his own version that worked just the way he wanted. For example, … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, YakumoYoukai wonders why he should use Org-mode. He’s not some clueless n00b whining that it’s all too hard and why should he bother anyway. YakumoYoukai is a 30 year, dedicated, user of Emacs who doesn’t … Continue reading →