Tag Archives: Org-mode

Wilfred Hughes serves up some useful advice for those just starting out with Org mode: It's too easy to get excited about time tracking, tags, and literate programming when starting out with org-mode. It has a huge featureset. I'd encourage … Continue reading →

As you all know, I’m fond of posts that show the versatility of Emacs by documenting its use by writers. At first glance, writing—a novel, say—seems to be the direct antithesis of what most of us use Emacs for. But … Continue reading →

Scott Nesbitt has an informative post on how to set up and use Reveal.js and Org-reveal for generating slide decks. There are several solutions for making slides that leverage Emacs and Org mode but Org-reveal is the simplest that I’ve … Continue reading →

Bastien tweets to let us know that there’s a new version of Org mode (a bug fix) available: #emacs #orgmode 9.1.13, a bugfix release, is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) May 6, 2018 If you’re tracking Org with ELPA, … Continue reading →

Writing in \(\mathrm{\LaTeX}\) produces beautiful documents but there’s a pretty steep learning curve. If you’re writing technical documents with lots of mathematics, it’s worth climbing that curve and if you’re an Emacs user, you’ll certainly want to become familiar and … Continue reading →

John Goerzen has another post in his coming back to Emacs series. This time he looks at writing documents and preparing presentations with Emacs and Org mode. It’s an elementary discussion but there’s plenty that will be useful to newcomers … Continue reading →

Bastien Guerry tweets that there’s a new version of Org available: #emacs #orgmode 9.1.12 is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) April 26, 2018 If you’re tracking the Org repository, the new version is already there.

In a post that serves as a nice complement to my recent musings on Open Source Tools, Karl Voit notes that Microsoft is discontinuing OneNote. Although he’s too polite to say so directly, if you’re a OneNote user, you have … Continue reading →

I find that one of the most useful features of the phenomenally useful Org mode is the Babel code block capability. You have to have facility with at least one programming language, of course, but this is Irreal so that’s … Continue reading →

Over at ZCL.SPACE there’s an informative post about blogging with Hugo and Org mode. The post serves as a reasonable go-by for setting up and using Hugo for an attractive, static blog. Although Hugo now supports Org markup natively, the … Continue reading →