Tag Archives: Org-mode

Howard Abrams recently gave a talk at the PDX Emacs Hangout in Portland. So far, there is no video of the talk but Abrams did write up his notes1. The talk was intended to be a workshop so you should … Continue reading →

Rohan Kshirsagar has a nice post on integrating Emacs Org Mode into the software engineering process. That’s a big subject area, of course, but Kshirsagar focuses on using Org to take notes as things occur to you and perhaps turn … Continue reading →

Ben Maughan over at Pragmatic Emacs has a really useful tip for rescheduling Org agenda items in bulk. Maughan’s use case is that when at the end of the day he has unfinished TODO items in his Org Agenda he … Continue reading →

This is a note to myself but you may find it useful too. Kara Woo asks how she can arrange to have an Org table rotated on the page when she exports it to PDF: Anyone know if I can … Continue reading →

As Irreal readers know, John Kitchin, a Chemical Engineering Professor at Carnegie Mellon, produces virtually all of his group’s journal articles in Org mode. Those articles typically contain a lot of figures and graphs. In his latest post, Kitchin shows … Continue reading →

Here’s a useful tip: 'C-c . fri RET' inserts a timestamp of next Friday in #Org #Emacs. — mega so no fun (@marcowahlsoft) January 19, 2016 It’s obvious, of course, but for me, at least, it’s a subtly different way … Continue reading →

As often happens in Emacs, I hit the wrong key and stumbled upon a functionality I didn’t know about. It turns out that if you press 【k】 while in an Org Agenda buffer you will bring up a capture buffer … Continue reading →

Rob Rohan, whose work I’ve mentioned before, has posted a nice video about a bit of presentation software that he built. The software, bestowed, takes a normal Org mode outline and turns it into an HTML-based presentation. It does this … Continue reading →

Sacha pointed me to this video by Mr. Swathe on logging the time spent on various tasks by clocking in and out with Org mode. The video is pretty elementary but it showed me enough to get going. I’ve tried … Continue reading →