Tag Archives: Org-mode

Literature Management with Emacs

I saw a query that had a link to a post from a couple of years ago that I missed at the time. It’s by Anand Iyer who is—or, perhaps, was—a graduate student and therefore is constantly reading papers. When … Continue reading

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A Short Org Table Tutorial

Someone tweeted a link to this very nice Org table tutorial from 2013. Even though it’s fairly old, the information is still up to date and useful. I learned a couple of tricks that I either didn’t know or had … Continue reading

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Refactoring Prose With Org Mode

Edmund Jorgensen over at Edmund’s technical ramblings has a really excellent post on leveraging Org mode in a nontrivial way for writing prose. Jorgensen is a software developer by day and a novelist by night. He’s published two novels and … Continue reading

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Org Mode 9.2.3 Has Been Released

Bastien writes that Org-mode 9.2.3 is out: #emacs #orgmode 9.2.3, a bugfix release, is out. Enjoy ! https://t.co/dK4uSFUjXb — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) April 2, 2019 It’s a bug fix release so if you’re having any issues with Org you should … Continue reading

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OrgMode Tutorial Plans

Rainer König is back, after 15 months, with news of some changes in his life and his plans for his video series. In the latest video, König explains that he’ll be changing jobs soon and is also considering starting his … Continue reading

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Numbering Org Table Rows

Álvaro Ramírez tweeted a handy tip that I used to know about but had forgotten: #emacs multiple cursors + org tables = magic `mc/insert-numbers’ is bound to # when multiple cursors are active: https://t.co/Okx9sZ2TQW pic.twitter.com/WhMmKwjLMV — Alvaro Ramirez (@xenodium) March … Continue reading

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EmacsCast #8: Writing

Rakhim Davletkaliyev is back with another episode of his Emacs podcast, EmacsCast. This time he presents part one of a two-part series on writing in Emacs and Org mode. My first thought as I started to listen to the podcast … Continue reading

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Another Org-based Writing Environment

John Borwick was looking for a writing environment that suited him. He’d tried Scrivener and some of the other tools but they didn’t work for him. Then he saw Jay Dixit’s video that I wrote about back in 2015 and … Continue reading

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Org-mode 9.2.2 is Out

Bastien tweets that the latest Org-mode is available: #emacs #orgmode 9.2.2 is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) March 4, 2019 After the recent problem with the agenda being broken, I decided to stop living on the bleeding edge and … Continue reading

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A Nice Linux Desktop Setup

Dennis Felsing over at HookRace Blog has an interesting post on his Linux desktop setup. He’s a Vim user so he doesn’t have the advantages that Emacs brings for integrating common tasks into a consistent framework. Still, he has built … Continue reading

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