Tag Archives: Org-mode

Longform Writing With Org-mode

Regular readers know that I’m fascinated with how non-coders use Emacs and especially how (prose) writers leverage it to remove friction from the writing process. Phil Daniels over at The Copytist is a professional writer who’s working on a longish … Continue reading

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Refiling in Org Mode

Longtime Irreal readers may remember my post on Aaron Bieber’s talk on moving from Vim to Emacs that he gave to the Boston Vim Meetup back in 2015. Since then, I’ve mentioned him in a few other posts. The other … Continue reading

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Zamansky 53: Emailing Your Agenda

Mike Zamansky is back with another video in his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about mailing himself a copy of his current Org agenda. I found this video useful for a couple of reasons. First, he discusses the Org … Continue reading

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Using Emacs 51

Mike Zamansky had a few minutes free in his busy fall schedule so he recorded and posted another video in his Using Emacs series. This time he discusses how he uses Org Mode in his day-to-day work. If you’ve been … Continue reading

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An Org Mode Workflow

Ayrat Badykov has an interesting post on his Org-mode workflow. In it he shows how he leverages Org mode to be more productive. What I find interesting—other than that I always find workflow articles interesting—is how far he gets using … Continue reading

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Configuring Org Mode to Look Like a Word Processor

Last month, I wrote about clean screen writing where all the extraneous information is removed from the screen and the writer is presented with a “blank page.” In the same vein, Abhinav Tushar has an interesting post on making Org … Continue reading

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Another Take on Going Paperless

After I wrote the post on Aqeel Akber’s Perfect Email Setup, I browsed around his site a bit and found this other interesting post from 2016 on going paperless. I’ve written a bit on that subject in the last few … Continue reading

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Reproducible Research and Literate Programming in Econometrics

About a year and a half ago Rob Hicks wrote an interesting post on bringing literate programming and reproducible research methods to Econometrics. Hicks works mostly in Python and Matlab but also sometimes needs Strata and R. When he began … Continue reading

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Blogging with Org Mode

Ambrevar (Pierre Neidhardt) has an interesting post on why and how he uses Org mode to blog. His two main criteria are that He can write his blog posts in Org mode. He was complete control over how his blog … Continue reading

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Emacscast #5

Rakhim Davletkaliyev has posted the fifth episode of his excellent Emacs podcast, Emacscast. This time he talks mostly about blogging with Hugo but, as usual, he starts with a description of the changes he’s made to his configuration since the … Continue reading

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