Tag Archives: Org-mode

Adopting A New Emacs Workflow

Over at TAONAW, JTR has a short post post on how his changing work duties—that now include more technical writing—has caused him to evolve his Emacs workflow. A lot of his work involves writing Knowledge Base articles that get added … Continue reading

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Time Tracking With Org-mode

Jeremy Friesen over at Takes on Rules has an interesting post on using Org-mode for his workflow. The exact situation is a bit more complex but it’s best thought of a way of time tracking. Rather than use a packaged … Continue reading

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Using Emacs to Write the Perfect Sentence

Chris Maiorana has an interesting video on using Emacs to level up on your writing. He was inspired by Jordan Peterson’s writing application essay.app. Maiorana realized that essay was pretty much like Org-mode except that it has a feature missing … Continue reading

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John Cook on Literate Programming

John D. Cook has another post in his series of posts discussing the use of Org mode in his professional duties as a consulting mathematician. This time he discusses the pros and cons of literate programming. He recounts the story … Continue reading

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Refiling Org Headline Nodes

Mario Jason Braganza has a useful post that considers moving a headline node from one org file to another. His use case is moving items from his TODO file to his current task file as he acts on TODO items. … Continue reading

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Keeping Data and Code in the Same File

John D. Cook has another post in his series on coding in Org-mode. The latest emphasizes how you can keep data, code, and documentation in a single (Org) file. There’s nothing new in that idea for most Irreal readers, of … Continue reading

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A Graduate Student Research Workflow

Koustuv Sinha is a PhD student in machine learning and natural language processing. Because much of his time is devoted to reading research papers in his field, he’s devoted significant effort into optimizing his workflow. The TL;DR is that he’s … Continue reading

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Org-mode Versus Jupyter Notebook

John D. Cook, a consulting mathematician, who runs the TeX and Typography Twitter feed as well as several similar—mostly mathematically focused—feeds has two posts that consider using Org-mode instead of Jupyter Notebook. It’s interesting because it comes from someone who … Continue reading

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Inlining Images in Org-mode

Bytedude has a short, simple post on how to inline images in Org-mode files. An ankle biter could—and in the comments, did—make a couple of immediate observations: That’s really simple to do It’s covered in the manual Since Irreal doesn’t … Continue reading

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Presentations With Org-present

David Wilson over at System Crafters has an informative video on how he does the slides for his popular video series. The short answer is that he uses org-present. With org-present you can take an ordinary Org file and have … Continue reading

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