Tag Archives: Org-mode

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 →

It’s a commonplace in the Emacs community that one of the big advantages of Emacs is that all your tools are connected and work with each other. Those of us at the extreme edge of that truism make it a … Continue reading →

I somehow missed this yesterday but Bastien has announced the release of Org-mode 9.5.3. It’s a bug release so it’s probably not urgent to install it unless you’re being bitten by one of the bugs. Bantien’s announcement notes that the … Continue reading →

Garjola Dindi has a very interesting post on using Calibre from within Emacs. Dindi already read his books from within Emacs using nov.el for Epubs and pdf-tools for PDFs but because he manages his library with Calibre, he had to … Continue reading →

Knowledge workers—which includes engineers, of course—often find they’re trying to hold too much information in their heads. When that happens, they frequently turn to what’s popularly known as a “second brain”. This can take many forms. There are dedicated applications, … Continue reading →

Sam Wallace has an interesting post on how he takes research notes. He’s a Mathematics PhD student so he reads lots of papers that he has to take notes on as well as class notes and his own research projects. … Continue reading →

As regular readers know, I’m not much for bling and fancy formatting in my editor but that’s a personal choice without a moral dimension. Plenty of people like to have their Emacs buffers look as nice as possible. For those … Continue reading →

Tony Aldon has an interesting post on reddit that discusses the implementation of Org speed keys. That doesn’t seem like it would be all that interesting but it turns out to be more complex and involved than you might think, … Continue reading →

NOTE: Once again, WordPress is refusing to publish the embedded tweet. I don’t think this is Twitter’s fault because it renders perfectly on my local machine; it’s just when I try to push it to WordPress that it fails. I’ve … Continue reading →

Ravi Sagar has a quick video that shows you how to bulk-rename tags in an Org file. If you don’t use tags in your Org files, this probably seems like something you’d hardly ever want to do. Indeed, even Sabar … Continue reading →