Tag Archives: Org-mode

Customizing the Agenda

Posted on 2021-02-24 by jcs

If you’re an Org-mode user you’ve probably seen some of the custom Agenda displays that enterprising users have created. They can be useful for those who like to organize their activities and use the Agenda as a portal into that … Continue reading →

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Exporting Org to HTML

Posted on 2021-02-17 by jcs

Jake B has a helpful video on exporting Org files to HTML. Irreal readers almost certainly knows how to do this so why am I writing about it? As you know, you can tweak your Org file to pull in … Continue reading →

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An Example of Literate Programming

Posted on 2021-02-04 by jcs

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m ambivalent about literate programming. I love the idea of it and absolutely agree with all its claimed strengths but I’ve never been able to embrace it in practice. The major problem, I think, is that … Continue reading →

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Sending HTML Mail With Mu4e

Posted on 2021-01-27 by jcs

Like all right thinking people, I abhor HTML emails but that’s a ship that sailed long ago and there’s not much choice other than grudging acceptance. The virtuous can, of course, continue to send plain text but sometimes your content … Continue reading →

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Editing Anki Cards with Org Mode

Posted on 2021-01-25 by jcs

I have a post in the queue that discusses spaced repetition and how to use Anki to realize it. Emacs, of course, has org-drill, which by all reports is an excellent implementation of spaced repetition but suffers from not being … Continue reading →

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Using Emacs & Org in College (Programming) Assignments

Posted on 2021-01-24 by jcs

If you’re an experienced Emacser, the idea of using Emacs everywhere—including for school assignments—is second nature. Of course, not everyone is an experienced user. Some, like Seshal Jain, discover Emacs in the course of their studies and evolve their workflows … Continue reading →

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Org To Beamer

Posted on 2021-01-21 by jcs

One of the easiest and most popular methods of making presentation slides is reveal.js, which exports your slides as HTML so that you can display them with any browser. Sometimes, though, you want to produce your slides as PDFs and … Continue reading →

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Knuth’s Literate Programming Paper

Posted on 2021-01-14 by jcs

Literate Programming. Back in 1984 when Knuth published his paper proposing Literate Programming, he believed that the concept would take over the programming world. I remember him saying that companies that failed to adopt Literate Programming would soon fall behind … Continue reading →

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Group Tags in Org-mode

Posted on 2021-01-09 by jcs

I know about Org’s group tags but like any things in Emacs, I wasn’t using them so they slipped out of my mind. Until today. Today, I saw this Tweet: #orgtip: This one blew my mind, org mode allows you … Continue reading →

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Abo-abo on Org-Roam

Posted on 2021-01-01 by jcs

Regular readers know that I’m very taken with the Zettelkasten idea and have implemented my own (sort of) Zettelkasten with Org-mode. My homegrown solution is not very featureful or convenient so I installed org-roam (a FOSS alternative to the popular … Continue reading →

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