Tag Archives: Org-mode

Writing With Emacs #1

Greg Newman has another episode of Emacs Carnival going this month. This time it’s about using Emacs for writing. That’s a subject I’m very interested in so I’ve been looking forward to this episode’s contributions. The first is from Erik … Continue reading →

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Undergrad Notes

Chris Maiorana has an interesting post on note taking with Emacs. He says that Emacs and, in particular Org mode, have all sorts of functions to make taking notes easier but that it’s easy to get bogged down in trying … Continue reading →

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Running All Code Blocks In An Org Subtree

If you’ve been around the Emacs technical community for a while, you know that Sacha Chua—despite being the mother of a young daughter—is an ever present and incredibly productive member of that community. One of the ways she manages that … Continue reading →

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Markdown Comes To Journelly

I’m sure you’ve all missed my Journelly posts. The thing is, it’s working so well for me that I don’t feel the need to comment about every little change but Álvaro Ramírez has just announced Markdown support. That’s nothing that … Continue reading →

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The Mechanics Of Interacting With Journelly On The Mac

As you all know by now, I’m all in on Journelly. I use it to implement my memo book in which I record virtually everything that happens in my day. For me, one of its major benefits is that it … Continue reading →

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Adding Timestamped Notes To The LOGBOOK Drawer

Jeff Bradberry has an excellent post on adding timestamped notes to the LOGBOOK drawer in Org files. Most of us are used to using this drawer to record state changes in TODO notes. You can arrange to have the times … Continue reading →

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GitHub As A Notebook

I like GitHub well enough; I link to it often and even have an account but I would never consider using it for anything but public files that I had replicated on my own machine. I’ve been over the reasons … Continue reading →

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Scrim Released

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Charles Choi’s Scrim beta. Scrim is an app that makes the Org Protocol work in macOS. The problem, as Choi explains is that Org Protocol depends on calling emacsclient to deliver the … Continue reading →

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The Zen Of Task Management

Bastien Guerry has a longish post on how he uses Org mode for task management. If you’ve been around Org mode for any amount of time, Guerry will be familiar to you. He took over the maintainership of Org mode … Continue reading →

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Scrim Beta

Charles Choi, someone whom Irreal often writes about, has a new app and is looking for beta testers. His app, scrim, is a way of making the org-protocol available to macOS users. The problem is that org-protocol depends on the … Continue reading →

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