Tag Archives: Org-mode

Two and a half years ago, I wrote about Gilles Castel’s astounding ability to take math notes at speed using LaTeX and Vim. As someone who once came perilously close to being lapped on a three panel blackboard by a … Continue reading →

As I noted previously, John Kitchin has been busy making and posting videos about Scimax, his Emacs starter kit targeted at scientists and engineers involved in programming and publishing. There are so many videos that I can’t hope to comment … Continue reading →

Recently, John Kitchin tweeted a pointer to the draft of a paper by Timonthy Johnson that makes the case for Emacs as the tool for scientists to organize and report their research. The paper, Emacs as a Tool for Modern … Continue reading →

As I’ve said before, John Kitchin is producing so many videos that it’s hard to keep up. One of his recent videos is about Scimax Notebook, his implementation of digital notebooks based on Projectile, Bozhidar Batsov’s project interaction package. In … Continue reading →

Garjola Dindi has a delightful blog entry on how he leverages Emacs to enjoy his music. Dindi was nostalgic for the days when listening to music meant putting a vinyl disk on the record player. Back then, the friction of … Continue reading →

Bastien writes to tell us that Org-mode 9.5 has been released. The big thing about the release is the new citation engine but there are lots of other changes too. You can see what’s in the new release by perusing … Continue reading →

The other day, I wrote about line drawing tools in Emacs. For those who like interactive systems, I mentioned ditaa, which takes an ASCII art diagram and turns it into a pretty PNG file. AKIYAMA Kouhei (misohena) has a project … Continue reading →

The other day, I saw this tweet from John Cook’s TeX Tips Twitter account: Spanish punctuation: Can use !` and ?` for inverted exclamation points and question marks. — TeX and Typography (@TeXtip) September 24, 2021 I was vaguely aware … Continue reading →

I’m Bmax has a post about his journey to find the perfect way to track his time. Like almost everyone else, he started with a spreadsheet but if you’ve ever done that you know what a pain it is and … Continue reading →

Peter Prevos has a nice post in his using Emacs to be more productive series. The post, Ricing Org Mode: A Beautiful Writing Environment, discusses how to make the org-mode buffer “prettier.” It’s very much like Abhinav Tushar’s post that … Continue reading →