Tag Archives: Org-mode

Embedding Youtube Videos in Org Files

Artur Malabarba has a nice post on embedding Youtube videos in Org files. I do that occasionally for blog posts by using the HTML embedding code that Youtube supplies with each video. It turns out, though, that you can do … Continue reading

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Project Planning with Org Mode

Charles Cave has a useful tutorial on how he uses Org mode to implement David Allen’s Natural Planning Model. Org mode is a natural way of performing the model’s five steps and Cave walks us through how that can be … Continue reading

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Org Mode: The Gateway Drug

Currently reading: https://t.co/uYuBvU8kml. Actually a little sad, thinking I might be missing out on using emacs just for orgmode. — Markus Barthlen (@MarkusBarthlen) May 31, 2015

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Org Mode Cookbook

I’ve written about this before but it bears repeating If you use #emacs or #orgmode and you write techincal documents check out: http://t.co/gcw0KMWRXy — David Bjergaard (@dbjergaard) June 10, 2015

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Org Returns

Org mode can be a sort of odd beast when you’re editing in one of its buffers. That’s because even though it’s plain text it’s also providing a way of structuring text. Grant Rettke takes note of this fact and … Continue reading

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Basic Org Tutorial

Over at the Worg site, David O’Toole has a nice tutorial on the basics of Org mode. It covers only the outlining and TODO features but there’s still some meat there for the more experienced Org user. For example, I … Continue reading

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Marking Up Quoted Org Strings

Artur Malabarba has a nice tip on how to markup strings in Org mode that begin with ” or ‘. I should have implemented it for this post.

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Emacs and Data Science

Robert Vesco has an interesting post on why he uses Emacs in his data science work. Vesco is a data scientist for Bloomberg so he’s a serious practitioner of the art. Working in data science means he uses a variety … Continue reading

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org-goto

I learned a really useful Org mode command from Artur Malabarba’s first anniversary post: org-goto. The idea is that you want to navigate to somewhere else in the current Org buffer. You could fold the buffer and navigate to the … Continue reading

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Making My Org Agenda More Useful

I’ve written before (1, 2, 3) about my efforts to implement a system like the one Karl Voit has for managing personal data. Voit uses his Memacs system to automatically collect data from a variety of sources and add them … Continue reading

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