Tag Archives: Org-mode

Markup Languages Compared

There are several popular light weight markup languages for producing printed or displayed typeset output. I use “light weight” to distinguish them from heavy duty markup languages such as TeX, LaTeX, or Troff. One thing they all have in common … Continue reading

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Org 9.4.6 Released

Bastien has announced that Org-mode 9.4.6 has been released. It’s a bug release and is planned to be the last release before version 9.5. The easiest way to get it is from Org ELPA.

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Nick Higham’s Blogging Workflow

Nick Higham is a working mathematician so his blog has a heavy mathematical content and that means that he’s very concerned with integrating LaTeX into his workflow. Fortunately, that’s pretty easy because he writes his posts in org-mode and publishes … Continue reading

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Using Org-capture With Org-drill

I saw a pointer to this New York Emacs Meetup talk from 2016. It’s about how Josh Moller-Mara uses org-drill and org-capture together to learn Chinese. Most of us don’t need to learn Chinese, of course, but we all do … Continue reading

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Bastien on Using TODO Lists Efficiently

Bastien Guerry, longtime maintainer and advocate for Org-mode, has a few thoughts on using TODO list efficiently. His thoughts are distilled from 15 years of using Org to keep his TODO list and schedule his tasks. The chief challenge, he … Continue reading

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Useful Emacs and Org-mode Features

Karl Voit gave an excellent talk at Grazer Linuxtage 2021 on some Org Mode features that you may not know. The talk also covered some Emacs features that he uses to enhance his workflow. He has an outline of the … Continue reading

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Writing Technical Documents with Org Mode

alpha2phi has a nice post on writing documentation with Emacs and Org-mode. The post is reminiscent of Mike Hamrick’s video on keeping technical documents consistent and uses some of the same techniques. Alpha2phi starts with importing Fabrice Niessen’s excellent ReadTheOrg … Continue reading

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An Org Workflow

Luca Cambiaghi, a data scientist from Copenhagen, has a post on his Org-mode workflow. He’s got three problems to solve: He doesn’t know when a particular task needs to be worked on. He forgets to check on tasks that need … Continue reading

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Org Mode 9.4.5 Released

Bastien Guerry tweets that Org 9.4.5 is out: #emacs #orgmode 9.4.5, a bugfix release, is out. Enjoy! Also check announcements for 9.5 on https://t.co/CRNe0q0Kvv 👉 a new Org contrib package will be distributed via NonGNU ELPA and Org ELPA won’t … Continue reading

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How to Implement a Zettelkasten Link Type in Org

Christian Tietze is an author at the zettelkasten.de site and, of course, keeps his notes in a Zettelkasten. He has his own app, The Archive, for that but he’s also an Emacs user. He uses a timestamp as a key … Continue reading

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