Tag Archives: Org-mode

Org List Repair

Tim Visher, who used to publish the much-missed VimGolf in Emacs videos, just tweeted a useful tip: OMG I have been looking for #emacs `org-list-repair` _forever!_ https://t.co/QMeulfO4KD (sorry if the link breaks, I can’t figure out to get a stable … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Using Org-mode to Make Beautiful Documents

Mats Tage Axelsson has a short introduction to making beautiful documents with Org-mode. None of this will be news to regular Irreal readers who are used to me (all too) frequently writing about it. Axelsson shows the basic format of … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Orgzly

In my Portable Operating System post and its comments, I bemoaned the lack of an Emacs port to iOS/ipadOS or at least to the iPad. If I had that, I’d probably still use my MacBook Pro at home but I’d, … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Org 9.2.4 Is Released

Bastien Guerry tweets that Org-mode has a new release. #emacs #orgmode 9.2.4, a bugfix release, is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) June 11, 2019 As usual, thanks to Bastien, Nicolas, and the others for all the work they do … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Correcting Org Tags

A couple of days ago, I was adding some item to my journal—which is really my engineering note book—and when my capture template prompted me for a tag and I started to type it in, I noticed that in the … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Revisiting Abrams’ Capture Techniques

A year ago, I wrote about Howard Abrams’ post on Capturing Content for Emacs. I just saw a current reference to the post and reread it. It’s a really great article and worth mentioning again in case you missed it. … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Writing Academic Papers

Jonathan Bennett has another post up in his Year of Emacs series. This one is about writing academic papers. Bennett is in the humanities but still uses Emacs and Org-mode to write his papers. I’m always interested in posts like … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Notion

Ali Abdaal is a Junior Doctor (sort of like a Resident in the US) practicing in Cambridge, UK. He’s also a YouTuber producing videos on productivity, efficient study habits, tech reviews, and life as a Junior Doctor. I’ve been following … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Hidden Gems #4: TODOs

Cheong Yiufung has another great post up in his Org-mode Hidden Gems series. The latest post takes a look at Org-mode TODO functionality. As usual, I learned some new things proving again that the “hidden gems” tag is appropriate, at … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Implementing the Eisenhower Matrix in Org-mode

The Eisenhower Matrix—so named because it was used by Dwight Eisenhower—is a technique of visualizing and prioritizing decisions by marking them urgent/non-urgent and important/non-important. If you mark each task with the two attributes, it will fall into one of four … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment