Tag Archives: Org-mode

A Graphviz Go by

As I wrote the other day, the Graphviz dot language for drawing graphs is pretty simple and easy to learn but if, like me, you don’t use it very often, it’s easy to forget the details. There’s an excellent manual … Continue reading

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Karl Voit on the Superiority of Org Mode Markup

I’ve been following a tweet discussion between Karl Voit and several others over the relative merits of light weight markup languages. You can get a feel for the arguments by expanding the following: For #orgmode as a markup (w/o Emacs) … Continue reading

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Org Entities

Today I saw this tweet about Org entities: M-x org-entities-help is your #orgmode buddy — Olivier Berger (@olberger) September 21, 2017 I didn’t realize how much I needed org-entities-help. It’s pretty easy to enter many of the common Unicode characters … Continue reading

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Graphviz and Org Mode

Over at The Joy of Programming there’s a nice introductory post on using Graphviz’s dot command to draw graphs and how you can make the process almost interactive by calling dot from within an Org source block. The dot command … Continue reading

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Orgmode 9.1.1

Bastien sends word that there’s a new version of Org out: #emacs #orgmode 9.1.1 is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) September 17, 2017 If, like me, you’re OCD about keeping up to date with Org, it’s already in Melpa. … Continue reading

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Org Mind Map

I don’t use mind mapping so I never paid much attention to org-mind-map, thinking it was a way of organizing mind maps. It is that, I suppose, but what makes it interesting to me is that it’s a handy way … Continue reading

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Org Mode 9.1 Released

#Emacs #Orgmode 9.1 is out. A big thanks to every contributor for this major release! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) September 6, 2017 I’ve already updated, of course, but Phil tells me I may have a bit of OCD. In any … Continue reading

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Org Mode Folding

As every Org user knows, you can use Shift+Tab to cycle the folding of an Org file among OVERVIEW, CONTENTS, and ALL. That’s really handy and something I use all the time. Yesterday, I learned something new from this Emacs … Continue reading

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Note Taking with Org Mode

Heikki Lehväslaiho has a nice series of 4 blog posts on how he takes notes with Org mode. He lists the first three posts in each entry but not the fourth; it’s here. The last two posts are particularly interesting. … Continue reading

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Tabula

Back in early July, I wrote a rant disagreeing with Robert Zaremba about retiring the use of PDFs. Zaremba believes that PDFs are no longer a good fit for today’s devices and that we should stop using them. I strongly … Continue reading

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