Tag Archives: Org-mode

Jay Bosamiya has an excellent tip for adding an ‘s’, or some other character, to the end of text that has some Org mode emphasis markup added. How to ensure that you can emphasize/make verbatim/make as code/etc, even with an … Continue reading →

The other day, I saw this query on the reddit Emacs subreddit. I already have solutions for this type of problem but I’m always interested in the how people use Org mode to record and report data so I followed … Continue reading →

Bastien tweets that there’s a new Org mode release: #orgmode #emacs 9.1.8 is out, with important bugfixes for those using group tags (I know you are…) Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) March 22, 2018 It’s already available in Org ELPA … Continue reading →

If you like to visualize your projects and tasks with mind-mapping, like to work with an interactive GUI, and don’t mind proprietary software, you may like The Brain. You can see how it works in this video. It appears to … Continue reading →

Regular readers know that I am very enamored of Howard Abrams’ excellent post and video on literate devops. It’s not that my duties include devops; rather it’s that the methods he demonstrates are applicable to a wide range of problems … Continue reading →

Over at Academia Obscura they have a list of 10 essential tools for academics and PhD students. It’s a useful list but my immediate reaction upon reading it was that you can do all that with Emacs. Well, you can’t … Continue reading →

John Goerzen has returned to Emacs after a decade of being a Vim user. His reason for doing so is Org mode. If all you want from your editor is to edit, Vim is hard to beat: it’s fast, loads … Continue reading →

How much would you pay for Org mode? $10? $25? $100? More? Well fortunately you don’t have to pay anything at all because, of course, Org mode is free software in all senses of the word “free.” Still, free software … Continue reading →

José A. Alonso’s tweet: Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for research writing in social sciences (A toolkit for writing reproducible research papers and monographs). ~ Vikas Rawal https://t.co/QaG4Ifq3Kh #Emacs #OrgMode #Rstats — José A. Alonso (@Jose_A_Alonso) February 26, 2018 led … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I pointed to Marcin Borkowski’s tip for easily entering formulae in Org mode tables. For most of us, Org tables provide all the spreadsheet functionality we need. I don’t remember the last time I fired up an actual spreadsheet. … Continue reading →