Tag Archives: Org-mode

Nicolas Rougier, whom I’ve written about before in regard to his beautiful Org documents, had a long post a couple of years ago that’s well worth a look and some serious studying. At the time, Rougier was just learning about … Continue reading →

Although it’s easy to forget, Org tables have another life besides their obvious textual representation. It’s obvious when you think about it because you can operate on those tables either through the built-in Org table operators or directly with Elisp. … Continue reading →

One of the most useful workflow enhancements I’ve made to Emacs is the ability to do initiate an Org capture whether or not I’m in Emacs. That’s important to me because virtually every note I take is stored in Org. … Continue reading →

The other day I wrote about Kaushal Modi’s post on Advice Combinators. Modi has another post that uses that information but the post is interesting in its own right. The problem is to fold (or collapse) headings having a certain … Continue reading →

Yesterday I saw this tweet: Org Mode is a GNU Emacs major mode for keeping notes, authoring documents, computational notebooks, literate programming, maintaining to-do lists, planning projects, and more — in a fast and effective plain text system. #Orgmode 9.5.4, … Continue reading →

If you’ve been around Irreal for a while you know that I love reading about how people are using Emacs for non-engineering/scientific purposes such as creative writing. It’s hardly a surprise that creative writers, for example, find Emacs a superb … Continue reading →

Tony Aldon has been busy posting informative articles to the Emacs reddit. One of his latest discusses org-open-at-point-global, a way of following a link formatted in Org syntax even if it’s not within an Org buffer. That’s something I didn’t … Continue reading →

As most of you know, I’m a big fan of the Zettelkasten idea and of its org-roam implementation in Emacs. There are several videos on org-roam, including the System Crafter series, that will help you get started. Matt Williams also … Continue reading →