Tag Archives: Org-mode

Using Org Mode for Custom Workflows

jr0cket, aka John Stevenson, is working on a series of posts that discuss how to design a custom workflow with Org Mode. So far, he has a set of three posts but be sure to check his home page for … Continue reading

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Sacha Does Org

The ever-energetic Sacha Chua uses Org mode to organize her life. If you follow her at all you know that She has an extremely busy schedule. She documents everything. If Chua can run her life with Org Mode, just about … Continue reading

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Reproducible Research Redux

Longtime readers know that I’m a big fan of reproducible research and, specifically, the way that Emacs and Org mode help make it possible. Here’s a very nice video presentation from SciPy2013 by John Kitchin. He describes how he writes … Continue reading

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Sacha Chua Chats With Bastien Guerry

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Org Mode, here’s a bit of the back story. Carsten Dominik, an astronomer, originally wrote Org Mode as a small extension to outline-mode to help with his note taking and list management … Continue reading

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Org Mode Summary

I recently saw this Org-mode summary from the Linux Journal mentioned in a tweet. It’s pretty old—from 2007—but still serves as a useful introduction to some of Org-mode’s power. If you’ve never used Org-mode, this article will give you a … Continue reading

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A Small But Nice Change to the Org-Mode Build Process

As regular readers know, I’m a great admirer of Org-mode; I use it everyday to, among other things, write these blog posts, maintain my todo list, manage projects, and keep several other files up to date. I generally track the … Continue reading

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Org Mode And Living Documents

Vsevolod Dyomkin over at Lisp, The Universe and Everything has another in his series of interviews with Lisp hackers. This time it’s with Christophe Rhodes, the principal maintainer of SBCL. It’s an interesting interview and well worth a read so … Continue reading

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Note Taking With Org

I written a few posts recently about how I use Org mode to organize my projects and life (1, 2) so of course I was interested to see Da Zhang’s post on how he uses org-mode as the ultimate note … Continue reading

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Sending Mail Semi-Programmatically In Emacs

I have an ongoing project that I manage with an Org mode file. The file has the structure * [2012-03-21 Wed] ** Second Level Headline Some information about the second level headline … where the level one headlines are the … Continue reading

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Org-Drill

When I was browsing Hacker News today, I stumbled upon a neat Org mode extension called org-drill. The idea is that it implements an electronic version of flash cards that are useful for learning vocabulary or other facts. Obviously, this … Continue reading

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