Tag Archives: Org-mode

A Handwriting Font

Sacha Chua has perpetrated a truly wonderful hack. She’s built a font based on her handwriting. She’s using it for blog post titles and a few other places on her website, so take a look there to see what it … Continue reading

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Summarizing Class Notes

Matheus Augusto da Silva has an interesting video that details how he uses Emacs and Org-mode to write summaries of his class notes. After a class, he likes to write a half page summary of his notes. He finds that … Continue reading

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An Org Refile Workflow

Yiming Chen has an interesting post on his org-refile workflow. Before you read his post, though, you should (re)read Aaron Bieber’s Organizing Notes With Refile that I wrote about back in 2018. Bieber’s post gives you the background you need … Continue reading

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Advanced Usage of the Org Agenda

A great deal of my Emacs tube time is spent displaying the Org agenda. My use of the agenda is probably not standard: I use it mainly as a portal into my log type entries. There are some TODO entries … Continue reading

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Roam Research

Those of you who have been paying attention know that I’m embarking on a project to implement a Zettelkasten to organize my notes and ideas. My current plan is to base this on Jethro Kuan’s org-roam. Org-roam is an Emacs … Continue reading

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Zetteldeft

This is another entry in my series of posts on the idea of a Zettelkasten. Although I’ve mostly written about and am planning to use org-roam, that’s not the only possibility. Elias Storms built his own Zettelkasten by leveraging the … Continue reading

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Zettelkasten Explained

I’ve finished reading Sönke Ahrens’ How to Take Smart Notes and, as promised, I’ve started exploring Jethro Kuan’s Org-roam as a way of implementing my own Zettelkasten. I’ve downloaded and installed Org-roam and am currently going over the documentation. In … Continue reading

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The Org Code Edit Buffer

I use the Org-mode code editing buffer all the time either for adding some code to a post or for embedding a tweet or video. When I’m writing a blog post, I always have two windows displayed. On the left … Continue reading

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Fifteen Reasons to Prefer Emacs

Dominik Tarnowski gives us 15 reasons to use Emacs and says that VS Code has nothing on Emacs. He’s a Doom Emacs user but everything he says other than the particular keystrokes apply to any flavor. Another possible title for … Continue reading

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A Workflow For Writing A Book

Vladimir Keleshev has an interesting post that details his book writing process. It is, in a sense, low tech in that it uses very basic tools: Pandoc, Make, and Vim. He writes in Markdown and uses Pandoc to covert that … Continue reading

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