Tag Archives: Org-mode

The other day I was checking Ali Abdaal’s You Tube feed for new videos and I happened to see an older video that I’d watched earlier. It was about how Abdaal uses Notion as a resonance calendar. When I first … Continue reading →

In a perfect example of the Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon, a month ago I had never heard of the the term Zettelkasten and now it seems to be everywhere I look. Previously, I wrote about the idea and noted that it was … Continue reading →

Back in 2018, I wrote about a post by Daniel Gomez that describes how to use Org-mode for writing a thesis. At the time, Gomez was in the process of writing his own thesis and his post details his work … Continue reading →

If you’ve been following Irreal for a while, you know that I periodically try to get Org Protocol integrated into my workflow and end up writing a post on how I failed yet again. The last such post was just … Continue reading →

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) always has interesting posts that often give me good ideas. Recently, he posted on using Org-mode for SQL. I haven’t had to deal with SQL for a long time and I was never a heavy user so … Continue reading →

Mike Zamansky is back with another video in his Using Emacs Series. This video discusses maintaining a simple Web site with Emacs and Org-mode. Usually when I write about this sort of thing, it’s in the context of publishing to … Continue reading →

If you’re an Emacser and a blogger, you will, of course, want to write and publish your posts from within Emacs. If you’re using WordPress, org2blog provides an excellent solution. You write your posts in Emacs and Org-mode as usual … Continue reading →

I’m currently reading Sönke Ahrens’ How to Take Smart Notes, a book that describes Niklas Luhmann’s method of taking, storing, and retrieving notes about ideas he thought could be useful later. Luhmann kept his notes on what amounted to index … Continue reading →

Ali Abdaal, whom I’ve mentioned a couple of times before, is a physician and YouTuber from Britain. He’s a geek who at least once a week uploads a video usually about medicine, tech, or studying and learning. If you’re a … Continue reading →