Tag Archives: Org-mode

Running a Course Video

My New Year’s post was about how John Kitchin used Emacs and Org-mode to run a graduate course in Chemical Engineering. If you want to see it in action, he’s posted a short video that shows the system from both … Continue reading

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A Nice Org Mode Tip

#Emacs of the day: Daily status reports? Notes in org-mode? Grab the block with "M-h" then "C-c C-e h o" export as HTML & open in browser. — Robin Green (@fatlimey) January 19, 2015

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Sacha on Emacs Micro-Habits

Sacha Chua, as everyone here knows, is relentless about improving her work flow and procedures. Happily for us, she’s also diligent about sharing the results of her efforts with the rest of us. Her recent outstanding post on cultivating Emacs … Continue reading

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Another Convert

Picking them off one by one…

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Org Protocol

Abo-abo over at (or emacs has been blogging up a storm. So much so that it’s hard to keep up. In a couple of recent posts, he describes how he interfaces his browser to Org mode. The idea is that … Continue reading

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Org Mode for Research Papers

Vikas Rawal has an excellent introduction to using Org-mode for writing academic research papers. Rawal is mainly interested in statistical studies so his introduction emphasizes R but not in a way that excludes using his notes for other languages. Almost … Continue reading

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Sorting by IP Addresses 2

Yesterday, I told you about my difficulties in trying to sort an Org mode table. I came up with a solution that was, um, less than optimal but at least I got the table sorted. It bugged me that Org … Continue reading

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Markdown Gets Code Blocks

I don’t use Markdown because, as an Emacs user, I have access to the superior Org Mode. Still, if you’re not an Emacs user, Markdown provides a subset of Org Mode’s capabilities and is definitely an excellent piece of software … Continue reading

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Using Emacs and Org Mode for a Journal

Howard Abrams has an excellent post on journaling with Emacs and Org Mode. The post documents how his use of Org Mode evolved over time so you can see what (at least for him) worked and didn’t work. That’s very … Continue reading

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Org Mode and Reproducible Research

EmacsNYC has another great video up. This time, its Evan Misshula talking about Org-mode and reproducible research. Misshula is a graduate student in Criminal Justice at CUNY who does a lot of statistical research on Criminal Justice matters. Like me, … Continue reading

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