Tag Archives: Org-mode

I’m pretty happy with the default bullets in Org-mode but you don’t have to settle. abo-abo points us to this package by Sabof that uses some nice UTF-8 symbols for the bullets. The package README has a screen shot of … Continue reading →

Obviously, Irreal is published with WordPress. Some folks complain about WordPress but I’m very happy with it. It’s provides a simple and easy to maintain blogging platform that, along with org2blog, allows me to concentrate on writing rather than continually … Continue reading →

Fabrice Niessen has a couple of beautiful Org mode HTML themes that lets you produce lovely and functional Web pages by exporting normal Org mode files to HTML. Currently there are two themes. The first, Bigblow, is a general theme … Continue reading →

I’ve mentioned Karl Voit’s Memacs project before. I’m really interested in its ideas and have been implementing various manual procedures to capture some of the same data. My end goal is to implement Memacs on my own machines but it … Continue reading →

Jonathan Magen recently gave a talk to the New York Emacs Meetup group on using Org capture. His setup is a little different from mine so it was interesting to see how he did things. If you’re an Emacs user … Continue reading →

Irreal regulars know that I use Org mode for almost all my writing. There are these blog posts, of course, written with Org mode and published with org2blog but also reports, letters, and pretty much everything else. Org mode is … Continue reading →

As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of reproducible research. It makes it possible for anyone—even yourself—to reproduce all the steps of your research exactly as you performed it. A related concept, termed Literate DevOps by Howard Abrams, does … Continue reading →

Sacha Chua has a nice post on the power of plain text. There are, she says, three main ways of storing text1: The Heavy Weight Methods This is mainly database systems. Chua says she uses these tools mainly when she’s … Continue reading →