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Good and Bad Tags

Posted on 2022-03-13 by jcs

In response to my post How To Use Tags describing Karl Voit’s perspective on the use of tags, Christian Tietze pointed me to a post by Sascha Fast on The Difference Between Good and Bad Tags. Fast makes a good … Continue reading →

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How To Use Tags

Posted on 2022-03-02 by jcs

In response to my post Renaming Tags, Karl Voit pointed me to his recent post on How To Use Tags. He said that his system could solve many of the problems I experience with using tags. It’s a long post … Continue reading →

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Emacs Markdown Mode

Posted on 2021-12-28 by jcs

Timothy Unkert is an Emacs user but prefers to use Markdown over Org-mode. He’s posted a video that describes using Markdown in Emacs. I’m very much a “different strokes for different folks” type of guy as the Hippies used to … Continue reading →

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Orgdown

Posted on 2021-11-30 by jcs

This is another post that discusses a talk from EmacsConf 2021. This one, by Karl Voit, is about the Org-mode markup language. Org markup is superior to its competitors—sorry Markdowners, you know it is—but suffers from the fact that it’s … Continue reading →

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Another Reason Elfeed Is The Best RSS Reader

Posted on 2021-06-29 by jcs

As you all know, I’m a big fan of Chris Wellons’ Elfeed package for reading my RSS feed. There’s a lot to like. Wellons reimagined what an RSS reader should be and organized it around search. Most of the time, … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: How Not To Design Signs

Posted on 2021-04-30 by jcs

As promised, no journalists were harmed in the posting of this Red Meat Friday. Instead, via Karl Voit, I present this example of really atrocious design. How To Irritate People: pic.twitter.com/Tbrz4myYhy — Bruno Kassel (@BrunoKassel) April 28, 2021 The perpetrators … Continue reading →

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Useful Emacs and Org-mode Features

Posted on 2021-04-19 by jcs

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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The Danger of Web Forums

Posted on 2020-10-25 by jcs

Karl Voit has an interesting diatribe on his Web site that really resonated with me. The TL;DR is that you shouldn’t commit anything relevant to Web forums like Reddit, Hacker News, or Facebook. What Voit terms as “relevant,” I would … Continue reading →

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Super-links

Posted on 2020-07-29 by jcs

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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Red Meat Friday: Word as a Random Number Generator

Posted on 2020-07-17 by jcs

As you all know, Word is one of my favorite whipping boys. I often say it’s the worst piece of software ever foisted on an unsuspecting public. Doubtless that’s hyperbolic but Word is something I try never to use. Karl … Continue reading →

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