Tag Archives: Org-mode

Blogging With (Only) Emacs

If you’re an Emacser and a blogger, you will, of course, want to write and publish your posts from within Emacs. If you’re using WordPress, org2blog provides an excellent solution. You write your posts in Emacs and Org-mode as usual … Continue reading

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Smart Notes

I’m currently reading Sönke Ahrens’ How to Take Smart Notes, a book that describes Niklas Luhmann’s method of taking, storing, and retrieving notes about ideas he thought could be useful later. Luhmann kept his notes on what amounted to index … Continue reading

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Notion and Org Mode

Ali Abdaal, whom I’ve mentioned a couple of times before, is a physician and YouTuber from Britain. He’s a geek who at least once a week uploads a video usually about medicine, tech, or studying and learning. If you’re a … Continue reading

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File Hierarchies

A nice post from Karl Voit has been languishing in my blog queue since January and I realized that it was time to write about it. In the post, Voit argues that complex file hierarchies are the wrong answer. If … Continue reading

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An Introduction to Org Capture

One of the most powerful and useful functions provided by Org Mode is the capture facility. With it, you can easily capture data and context and store it in an Org file of like items in any of a number … Continue reading

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Using Org Capture Globally

After my recent disaster with my old MacBook Pro, one of the functionalities that I still haven’t restored is the ability to call Org capture from outside Emacs. I used to have a bit of Apple Script that I could … Continue reading

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An Org Mode Workflow for Spacemacs

Over at OutOfCheeseError there’s a useful discussion of an Org-mode workflow for Spacemacs. If you’re a member of the Spacemacs sect, you should take a look. Interestingly, the post is part of his .spacemacs file so it’s pretty much always … Continue reading

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Org 9.3.6

Bastien lets us know that Org 9.3.6 has been released: #emacs #orgmode 9.3.6, a bugfix release, is out. Enjoy! The next release will be 9.4, with new features. Coming soon. — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) February 13, 2020 It’s another bug … Continue reading

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Bastien’s Org-mode Tricks

If you follow the Emacs scene, you’ve probably seen some references to Bastien Guerry’s post on Org-mode Features You May Not Know. There’s been several tweets about it and, of course, Sacha covered it in her Weekly Emacs News. If … Continue reading

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Keeping a Table Header Fixed While Scrolling

Bastien Guerry tweeted about a really awesome new Org-mode feature: The latest #emacs #orgmode (from the master branch) allows you to turn on M-x org-table-electric-header-mode RET to always keep the first row of your table in sight. pic.twitter.com/E3Bpw1G3a1 — Bastien … Continue reading

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