Tag Archives: Org-mode

Blogging With Emacs

Xah Lee asked me to write about my blog publishing process and how an article gets from Emacs to my site. I’ve written about most of the parts of the process in various posts but it might be useful to … Continue reading

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Using Deft With Org Mode In Emacs

Earlier this week I wrote about the Deft package for Emacs. Deft is a note taking facility by Jason Blevens modeled on Notational Velocity. I opined at the time that while Deft provides a simple, lightweight note-taking mode, it doesn’t … Continue reading

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A Lightweight Alternative To Emacs Org Mode

As regular readers know, I am fanatical Org mode user. Almost everything I write in Emacs that isn’t programming code ends up in Org mode. Sometimes, even code does. Still, Org mode is a large system with lots of functionality … Continue reading

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Inhibiting Babel Evaluate Confirmation On The Mode Line

In Setting the Babel Evaluate Confirm Status, I wrote about Org-mode’s Babel asking for confirmation before executing a code block and why it’s sometimes convenient to turn that behavior off. In the post, I presented a simple Emacs Lisp function, … Continue reading

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Using Org Modes’s Date Routines In Any Buffer

I really like Org Mode’s method for inserting time/date stamps into an Org file. Org Mode has two types of dates, active and inactive, that differ in how Org Mode treats them but we needn’t worry about that here. In … Continue reading

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Literate Programming and GTD With Org Mode

Over at Eden Cardim’s Blog, there are a couple of nice posts about GTD (Getting Things Done) with Emacs Org Mode. One interesting thing about the posts is that Cardim uses the Literate Programming approach to his .emacs file but … Continue reading

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org2blog

Now that I’ve moved my blog to WordPress, I’m simplifying my work flow by using org2blog. It’s still early days—I’ve only published three posts and the about page with it—but so far I like it a lot. I write my … Continue reading

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