Tag Archives: Org-mode

A Long Form Writing Environment

Ryan Rix, who has the most well thought out and complete Emacs environment that I’ve seen has a post on the setup he uses for long form writing. By “long form” he means more than a paragraph or two on … Continue reading

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An Emacs Journey

Someone tweeted a link to a 6-month-old post by Murat Demirbas, a computer scientist at SUNY Buffalo. The post, My Emacs Journey, describes Demirbas’ use of Emacs and his embracing of Org mode. He’s been using Emacs for over 20 … Continue reading

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Markdown in Org-mode

Org-mode seems to be gobbling up everything having to do with text generation. Here’s the latest example: Using #markdown blocks in #emacs #orgmode to automatically generate pdf files :-) That’s a way to combine multiple documents in one orgmode file. … Continue reading

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More Org Gems: Tables

Just after I published yesterday’s post on Org-mode Gems, I discovered that Cheong Yiufung has another post up with some more Org gems. This time he considers Org Table Gems. In this post he demonstrates three things about working with … Continue reading

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Org-mode Gems

Every Org-mode user is aware that Org is a huge package stuffed with all sorts of useful functionality. For most of us, a lot of that functionality remains unknown and hidden. Most often the only way to find out about … Continue reading

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Another Org-mode with Spacemacs Tutorial

Nathan Lovato has a tutorial on using Org-mode with Spacemacs. It’s longer and more comprehensive than Jack of Some’s introductory video on Org with Spacemacs, but as with that video, Lovato’s looks at Org from the Spacemacs user’s point of … Continue reading

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Two Nice Org-mode Tutorials

Today I came across two Org-mode tutorials: one a blast from the past, the other new. If you enjoyed yesterday’s post on Jack of Some’s introductory Spacemacs video, you may also like his new video on the absolute minimum you … Continue reading

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Logging Money with Org-mode

Ilker Mutlu tweeted a pointer to an old post by Brian Wisti on how he uses Org-mode to log money. His technique uses only elementary features of Org-mode so, in a sense, it’s not worth recapitulating the post but if, … Continue reading

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Making Design Documents with Org-mode

Christian Blades over at the Beard Institute has a nice post on how he uses Org-mode to write and manage design documents. One interesting feature of his workflow is that the document starts as a TODO item in his agenda … Continue reading

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Orgmode-TV: How I Plan My Days

Rainer König is back with another video. A few days ago, he published a blog post on how he uses Org-mode for his daily plan. The basic idea is that every morning he brings up an Org template for what … Continue reading

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