Tag Archives: Org-mode

Over at the Emacs subreddit, ValuableBuffalo is looking for a way of taking what he describes as “fleeting notes” on his iPhone and capturing them to an Org file in his Git repository. As soon as I saw that, I … Continue reading →

Over at the OrgRoam subreddit, thephatmaster asks for some help in using org-roam to organize and write his research. As of this writing, he hasn’t gotten much response but there is a comment that recommends he take a look at … Continue reading →

Sacha Chua has a very nice post on using Org links everywhere. Chua really likes the ability to insert links that Org mode provides and wishes she could use it everywhere. It’s Emacs so of course she can do that. … Continue reading →

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has an interesting post on entering dates in Calc mode. The short version is that he often enters dates in Calc but it’s a painful exercise. He’d much rather enter them the same way you do in … Continue reading →

If you were paying attention to my response to Watts Martin’s post on Markdown, you probably concluded that Karl Voit is not a fan of Markdown. I’ve been following Voit’s views on light weight markup languages and personal information management … Continue reading →

My old friend and ex colleague Watts Martin has weighed in on the Markdown issue. Martin is a technical writer and novelist who regularly uses Markdown in his work. Lately, he’s become a bit peevish about the periodic spasms of … Continue reading →

This post is about a posting by Marcin Borkowski (mbork) from a couple of weeks ago that I’ve had sitting in a browser tab since then. Sacha already covered it so I wasn’t going to replow that ground but I … Continue reading →

My recent post on Markdown Versus Org Mode engendered some limited but spirited engagement so I thought it would be nice to followup by writing about a post I’ve had sitting in a browser tab for sometime. Piotr Migdał writes … Continue reading →

I think it’s fair to say that virtually everyone with knowledge of and an opinion on the matter would agree that on the technical merits Org mode is clearly superior to Markdown. The differences in syntax are trivial and don’t … Continue reading →