Tag Archives: Org-mode

Over at Infin there’s a nice post on recording Org mode activity. What that means is logging all the little administrative steps you take with your agenda such as marking an item done, changing its state, adding a note, and … Continue reading →

I’ve seen some questions lately asking if it’s worthwhile to learn Org mode. Regular readers will have no doubt as to my answer but I stumbled across a nice post from Charles Cave on how he uses Org capture, templates, … Continue reading →

Over at Arcadian Visions there’s a nice post on using literate programming techniques for making programming notes. The specific problem the post addresses is how to effectively take notes on some piece of programming arcana that you will want to … Continue reading →

Kaushal Modi has a nice post on how to split an Org block. That comes up in the context of, say, writing a literate program and deciding you want to insert some commentary in the middle of the block. A … Continue reading →

It’s almost a cliche that “I came to Emacs for X but stayed for Org mode.” Org really is the killer app for n00bs, although I believe it’s more of a gateway drug. After you’ve been here for a while, … Continue reading →

I’ve never bought in to the GTD (Getting Things Done) movement although my own system of scheduling, tracking, and recording tasks probably has a lot in common with the methodology. One often sees the claim that Org mode makes an … Continue reading →

Thierry Banel and Michael Brand have a really nifty package, orgaggregate, for those who work with data and want to produce a summary or aggregate table from their primary table. Here’s a simple example from their GitHub repository: #+NAME: original … Continue reading →

Irreal readers can’t help but know that I’m a fanatical Org mode addict. I use it for almost everything that doesn’t involve coding and sometimes, via code blocks, even then. I’m an inveterate data gatherer and note taker and all … Continue reading →