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Karl Voit’s Digital Workflow

Posted on 2015-04-20 by jcs

I am, I must admit, fascinated by Karl Voit’s work in capturing, storing, and indexing the digital files that record his life. I’ve covered some aspects of this before and will doubtless cover other aspects that I find interesting. Today, … Continue reading →

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Karl Voit on Digitizing Your Paper

Posted on 2015-04-16 by jcs

I’ve written before about Karl Voit (1, 2, 3) and his quest to record and digitize every aspect of his life. His Memacs system, which collects data from his email, phone, social media and other sources, is an excellent example … Continue reading →

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Sacha Chats with Karl Voit

Posted on 2014-12-08 by jcs

Sacha Chua has a new Emacs Chat up. This time it’s with Karl Voit. It’s a really interesting chat. Voit is concerned with managing personal information and uses Org Mode and some custom scripts to do that. One set of … Continue reading →

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Org For Writing And More

Posted on 2024-09-14 by jcs

Aditya Athalye has a nice post on how he uses Org-mode for writing and more. Like most Org users he started using it for a single task and discovered, as he went along, that he could also use it for … Continue reading →

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A Comparison Of Markdown Editors

Posted on 2024-04-15 by jcs

Although I find it hard to believe, the Minions assure me that there are still people who prefer writing in Markdown rather than Org-mode. I don’t want to relitigate that issue here. If you’re interested in why no right thinking … Continue reading →

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A Discussion of Markup Languages

Posted on 2022-11-02 by jcs

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 →

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Organizing Your Life With Org Mode

Posted on 2022-10-23 by jcs

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 →

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Having a Per Contact Email Address

Posted on 2022-06-25 by jcs

I recently had my own experience of the Baader-Meinhoff Phenomena. The other day I read Karl Voit’s post from 2015 on having a separate (from) email address for each correspondent. It seemed a little odd to me. Why would I … Continue reading →

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Pointers

Posted on 2022-05-05 by jcs

One of the hardest things to learn in C—indeed, many say it’s the acid test for a good C programmer—is pointers. Here’s an amusing cartoon (via Karl Voit) that explains it as well as any other explanation I’ve seen. Pointers … Continue reading →

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Book Logging

Posted on 2022-05-01 by jcs

Jack Baty has a post on how he logs the books he’s read. Logging books you read may be useful information to keep but it’s probably not all that interesting to others. What is interesting, though, is how he uses … Continue reading →

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