Tag Archives: Org-mode

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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Additional Emphasis Markers in Org Mode

I really love the Org-mode markup language. It allows me to compose just about any document that I would actually want to write. That means that I can typeset bold, italics, underline, monofont, and even strikethrough. But some people have … Continue reading →

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Getting Things Done With Emacs and 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 →

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Handling Org Tables in Elisp

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 →

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Org Capture from Anywhere Within macOS

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 →

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