Tag Archives: Org-mode

Back in 2016, I wrote about Haoyang Xu’s idea of keeping all your dotfiles in a single Org-mode file that tangles the individual dotfiles to their proper place in your directory structure. This allows you to write the dotfiles in … Continue reading →

Antonin Januska has posted a video showing how he set up and uses an engineering notebook. I’m always interested in how people implement engineering/scientific notebooks and Januska’s video is especially interesting because he implemented his as an Org-mode file. His … Continue reading →

I laughed when I saw this tweet: omg you guys .org -> .tex -> .pdf is a great work-flow for sharing information. It’s like #inception though – first #emacs became my OS and now everything I create in Emacs is … Continue reading →

Niklas Carlsson has posted a rerecording of a talk he gave at work about the power of Org-mode for literate programming and exploratory programming in general. Although he is running Emacs with the Doom package, you should have no trouble … Continue reading →

Moritz Schäfer has posted the workflow he uses to capture photos of receipts into an Org file. His method is to capture receipts by taking a photo of them with his smart phone using an app—it sounds like JotNot Pro—that … Continue reading →

It is common in many academic fields to have “poster sessions” at their professional conferences where a quick synopsis of research results are presented in a poster. This is the case in Computer Science and, apparently, in medicine. Philipp Homan … Continue reading →

Recently, John Kitchin tweeted that he has added the org-ref video to his YouTube play list: I added a video to a @YouTube playlist https://t.co/8e7HJa0gwx Introduction to org-ref — John Kitchin (@johnkitchin) November 25, 2018 The video is three years … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez has a nice tip on how to run an Org-mode block as root. I’m pretty sure I saw this in one of Howard Abrams’ excellent videos but it’s useful enough to repeat. It’s really easy to do so … Continue reading →

If you enjoyed yesterday’s post about Daniel Gomez using Org-mode to write his thesis, perhaps you’ll also like his other offering, An Emacs Library for frictionless Blogging. Gomez publishes his blog on write.as, a publishing platform that allows you to … Continue reading →

I keep seeing statements from the uninformed to the effect that you can’t use Org-mode for “serious” writing. First it was, “you can’t use Org-mode for journal articles.” After John Kitchin put the lie to that story, the naysayers moved … Continue reading →