Tag Archives: Org-mode

Org Mode 9.4 Released

Bastien Guerry writes that Org 9.4 has been released: 9 months after 9.3, #emacs #orgmode 9.4 is out, enjoy!https://t.co/W2c3ifoFtr This release deserves a few highlights 👇 — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) September 14, 2020 The changes are here and Guerry also … Continue reading

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Tracking Exercise with Org-mode

Polaris64 has a very interesting post about using org-mode to track his expercising. That doesn’t sound particularly interesting, I know, but read on to find out why I find it worth mentioning. If I wanted to track my exercising, the … Continue reading

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From SMS to an Org TODO

Many Org-mode users are looking for a way to add notes and TODOs when they aren’t at their computers. Most folks use one of the smart phone apps such as beorg or orgzly or perhaps even organice. Kevin Cunningham has … Continue reading

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Video: Emacs Tools for Writers

Derek Taylor has a nice video that talks about Emacs tools for writers. It’s a nice recapitulation of a post by Scott Nesbitt that I wrote about back in May of 2018. Taylor discusses pretty much the same tools as … Continue reading

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Screenshots in Emacs on macOS

Diego Zamboni has a post that describes how to add a screenshot to an Org buffer. The post considers the problem from the point of view of macOS but is easily adapted to other operating systems. He uses the org-download … Continue reading

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Super-links

This looks promising. Karl Voit has a post about org-super-links and their use in implementing a sort of poor man’s Zettelkasten. Super-links is still very preliminary but the idea is to provide an automatic way of implementing back links, something … Continue reading

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An Emacs/Org-mode Setup for Writing

Bhalla Kunal over at expLog has an interesting post on his writing setup. It’s Emacs and Org-mode based but, interestingly, he says that the thing that helped his workflow the most was rotating his monitor so that he had more … Continue reading

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Polyglot Documents in Org-mode

The University of Oxford Software Engineering Research group (OxRSE) has an interesting post on how they use Org-mode to publish tutorial material with the examples in different programming languages. The idea is to present the concepts, which are language agnostic, … Continue reading

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Magit: The Emacs Killer App

Over at DistroTube, Derek Taylor has posted a video that makes the case that for many people, Magit is the killer app for Emacs. He thinks that’s especially true if you’re primarily a developer. I use Magit everyday all day … Continue reading

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Organizing Workflow with Notion (and Org-mode)

Ali Abdaal, whom I’ve written about several times before, is a physician in the UK. Starting back when he was still in medical school, he’s been posting YouTube videos on how he studies and organizes his life. If you’re into … Continue reading

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