Tag Archives: Org-mode

Karl Voit is an expert on organizing and storing information. One of his basic building blocks is Emacs and Org mode. It’s interesting, therefore, to see the history of how he’s organized his Emacs configuration. If you follow the link … Continue reading →

Charl Botha has a really interesting post on importing data from a RESTful Webservice into an Org table. He gives the example of downloading cryptocurrency trading values and updating a table showing the total value of a user’s holdings but … Continue reading →

I’ve been seeing a lot of tweets and posts asking about how to do Python development in Emacs. There are a bunch of good solutions, of course, but one of the best resources is John Kitchin. Kitchin is a Chemical … Continue reading →

John Kitchin answers an Emacs Stack Exchange question and provides a handy tip. The question was how to display a broken Org link in the Org-warning face. That turns out to be really simple. If you’re dealing with particularly volatile … Continue reading →

Matus Goljer (Fuco1) has another excellent suggestion in his latest blog posting. A recent project required a large list of tasks to be completed, which he tracked with Org mode checkboxes. The problem was that it was visually confusing and … Continue reading →

Marco Wahl has a nice Emacs literate configuration that’s worth taking a look at for some of his ideas. What I really like, though, is his trick for making the tangled init.el read-only to remind himself and others not to … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, willmhorne asks how people use Org’s outlining capabilities for essays, books, and other long-form writing. Most Org users have their own answers to this but it’s very interesting and useful to see what others have … Continue reading →

Ben Maughan over at Pragmatic Emacs has a nifty animation showing how easy it is to import data from a PDF by pasting it into a buffer and then using Emacs’ excellent tools to reformat it to the desired form.

Org mode has a bug fix out. I track Org on Melpa but if you don’t, now is a good time to update. If you do track Org on Melpa, the new version is there and ready for update. #emacs … Continue reading →

Last week I wrote about finding out about counsel-imenu from Arjen Wiersma’s Emacs configuration. Today, I discovered something new about it. Filipe Silva was looking for a way to jump to an Org mode heading using fuzzy completion. There were … Continue reading →