Tag Archives: Org-mode

Running a Bakery with Org-mode and PostgreSQL

Piers Cawley used to be a programmer. Now he’s a baker. Following a longtime dream, Cawley opened a bakery and is now happily turning out bread instead of code. Running a small bakery doesn’t seem to offer a lot of … Continue reading

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Stephen Wolfram’s Personal Infrastructure

Over at his blog, Stephen Wolfram writes about his personal infrastructure and workflow. Wolfram, of course, is the CEO of Wolfram Research, the company behind Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha. He describes himself as a very hands-on CEO but what’s surprising … Continue reading

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Sharing Data Among Org-mode Blocks

John Kitchin has another excellent post on leveraging Emacs and Org-mode. This time, he considers sharing data between Org-mode code blocks. Most Org-mode users know about naming code blocks and using the results of the computation in another code block … Continue reading

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Org Capture and Refiling

Like me, Matus Goljer (fuco1) is a heavy user of Org-capture. I’ve got 11 templates that cover all sorts of events that I want to capture. Goljer has a similar number of templates but his taxonomy is much richer than … Continue reading

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Org 9.2.1

Bastien announces the arrival of a new Org-mode release: #emacs #orgmode 9.2.1, a bugfix release, is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) February 3, 2019 It’s a bug release so it’s probably worth upgrading even if you don’t track Org … Continue reading

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Howard Abrams’ GTD Workflow

Howard Abrams is rethinking his GTD workflow and has written a three part post that describes his evolving scheme. The first part is here; there are links to the next part in each post. The basic idea is that every … Continue reading

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Planning Your Life with Org Mode

Mats Tage Axelsson over at Linux Hint has the first in a series of posts about planning your life with Org Mode. This first post focuses on scheduling and capturing with Org-mode. There’s not anything new for those already using … Continue reading

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Parsing Org Files

Xah Lee has a new and useful tutorial out. It’s about the APIs available for parsing Org files. None of the information is new—it’s all documented somewhere—but it’s very useful to have everything in one place. As Lee discovered, it … Continue reading

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Detangle

For some reason I haven’t been following Yisrael Dov’s Emacs is Great series of videos on Emacs. That was definitely a mistake and I’m going to start paying more attention from now on. In the meantime I’d like to mention … Continue reading

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Zamansky 54: Org Tables

Mike Zamansky is back with another video in his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about Org tables and their spreadsheet capabilities. One of Zamansky’s duties as a Hunter professor is to evaluate Macaulay Honors College applications. Like many of … Continue reading

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