Tag Archives: Org-mode

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has a new way of managing his Emacs configuration. As you can guess from the above title, it’s a literate document based on Org-mode code blocks. He has a video up explaining his new configuation and how … Continue reading →

Back in 2019, I wrote about Mike Hamrick’s excellent talk on using Emacs and Org mode for writing technical documents. I’ve mentioned it a couple times since and sometimes watch it again for some of the many great ideas embedded … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez has a very nice post on Building your own bookmark launcher. The idea is that you have certain Web sites that you visit all the time and you’d like a quick way of opening them in your browser. … Continue reading →

In response to my recent post on Making Ad Hoc SQL Tables From Org Tables, commenter Fritz Grabo points to another, more general system, for doing the same thing. As Grabo points out, the method depends on the external package … Continue reading →

This is the coolest thing. Charles Choi—who contributions I’ve written about several times—has a really surprising post on turning Org tables into ad hoc SQL tables. There are a couple of things that make this a worthwhile endeavor: It’s easy … Continue reading →

jouke hijlkema has published a nifty project that uses Org mode to draw flow charts. “Uses Org mode” means, in addition to the obvious, that the Org source tree reflects the diagram tree. The project is still new and development … Continue reading →

AbstProcDo, like me, is a terrible artist. Sometimes, though, we need to add a diagram to our documentation, report, or Blog post. I usually use Graphviz or, when I’m in Troff mode, Pic for this. But these aren’t the only … Continue reading →

Gavin Freeborn has a new video on 5 Reasons I Love Emacs Orgmode. Freeborn notes up front that Org is so big and has so much functionality that it can be intimidating. Rather than try to cover everything it does, … Continue reading →

Grant Rosson has an announcement on reddit about his new package org-side-tree. The idea is that you can have a sidebar that lists all the headings in an Org file. That doesn’t sound too exciting but you can use the … Continue reading →

James Dyer has an interesting post on using Gnuplot to plot data from Org tables. Gnuplot is my go to utility for plotting data but its syntax is, to put it mildly, convoluted and since I don’t use it all … Continue reading →