Tag Archives: Org-mode

Starting A Journal

Posted on 2026-01-26 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago I read a lovely story in The New Yorker by Calvin Tompkins about starting a journal in his hundredth year. Tompkins was born the same year that The New Yorker was founded and, ironically, spent … Continue reading →

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When Should You Use Visual-line-mode?

Posted on 2026-01-22 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, floofcode complains that he doesn’t like the way visual-line-mode handles moving from line to line. He found that everything worked fine without visual-line-mode so he wondered when is visual-line-mode useful. If you read his post, … Continue reading →

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The Success of Markdown

Posted on 2026-01-19 by jcs

Anil Dash has a long post on How Markdown Took Over The World. We Org mode users may have a few problems with that depiction but it is fair to say that Markdown usage has become ubiquitous. We see it … Continue reading →

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Making Agenda Items Into Appointments

Posted on 2026-01-15 by jcs

Every Org mode user knows that you can add tasks to your Org agenda with a SCHEDULED or DEADLINE keyword. That will cause your agenda to warn you ahead of time of upcoming tasks requiring your attention. Emacs also has … Continue reading →

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Journelly 1.3

Posted on 2025-12-23 by jcs

Good news for Journelly users. Álvaro Ramírez has just released version 1.3 of Journelly. If you’ve been around Irreal for anytime at all, you know that I am a huge fan of Journelly. It’s one of my most used iOS … Continue reading →

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Converting Org Mode Text To Markdown In The Clipboard

Posted on 2025-12-19 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Charles Choi’s post on converting Markdown in the clipboard to Org mode. Now Choi is back with the inverse operation: converting Org mode text to Markdown in the clipboard. This time the … Continue reading →

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Converting Markdown Text In The Clipboard To An Org File

Posted on 2025-12-06 by jcs

As I’ve said many times before, I don’t understand why someone would prefer to use Markdown over Org mode but there are such people. At the very least you may be working with outlanders who don’t use Emacs and therefore … Continue reading →

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Presentations With Org

Posted on 2025-12-03 by jcs

Ankit Gadiya has a very nice post that explains and demonstrates how he uses Org for presentations. It’s a nice workflow that uses Org, Logos, Olivetti, and Pikchr to create and display his presentation. Gadiya starts his presentations with an … Continue reading →

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Some Nice Examples Of Org Babel Use

Posted on 2025-11-28 by jcs

Donald Hunter over at donaldh.wtf has an interesting post about Org Babel’s many powers and uses. Hunter thinks of it as a “polyglot Jupyter Notebook ” and uses it extensively for both professional and personal projects. His post consists of … Continue reading →

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Is Markdown Really Holding You Back?

Posted on 2025-11-23 by jcs

Brian Hogan has a post that I, at least, find provocative. His thesis is that Markdown—and by extension, Org-mode—are holding you back because they’re not semantic. That’s true, in a way, I guess, but both Markdown and Org-mode are Markup … Continue reading →

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