Tag Archives: Org-mode

One of the things that always causes confusion and that is hard to find in the documentation is making date calculations in Org. I was reminded of that when I saw a reddit question on making date calculations in an … Continue reading →

Grant Rettke, whom Irreal has mentioned from time to time, has a nice screencast on how he adds quotes to an Org document. Like many of us, Rettke takes notes on material he is watching or reading with Org mode. … Continue reading →

Munen Alain M. Lafon has a nice post on using an Org capture template to record a bit of source code. I like it because it’s completely self-contained. You just define the template and it works. The real value of … Continue reading →

David Zuber over at Storax has a useful post on enabling multiple inputs in an Org capture template. Templates are extraordinarily useful. I have several that I use several times a day. They do have a problem, though: you can … Continue reading →

Harry Schwartz, who appears to have moved to Boston from New York, gave a talk at the Boston Emacs Meetup on Getting Started with Org-mode. It’s not really a tutorial but a demonstration of many of Org’s features and how … Continue reading →

Chris Bonnell has a post up on how he blogs using Org and the Hugo engine. It’s another static page solution like the Jekyll and Nikola ones that I’ve written about before. This solution is a little trickier because Hugo … Continue reading →

John Louis Del Rosario offers another nice example of blogging with Org Mode. What makes Rosario’s solution unique is that he doesn’t use Jekyll, Nikola, or any other blogging engine. Rather, he serves static pages to his hosting provider via … Continue reading →

I just came across a tweet pointing to an old post by Urpo Lankinen about using Emacs for writing prose. I’m always interested in that topic so I followed the link and read the post. It seemed vaguely familiar—especially with … Continue reading →