Tag Archives: Org-mode

Recognizing Repeated Tasks In The Org Agenda

Thanks to Alex Popescu for pointing me to this nice post from Wai Hon about marking repeated tasks in the agenda listing. Why would you want to do that? Han explains it in his post: if you mark a repeated … Continue reading

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Analog Vs. Digital Again

Every time I think I’m done with the subject of analog versus digital notes, JTR makes another interesting post on the subject. His latest offering says he’s capitulated to the inevitable and is writing his notes digitally. Still, he says, … Continue reading

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Shrinking And Widening Org Table Columns

Just a quickie today because I’m still recovering from the Thanksgiving festivities. The Irreal bunker sealed the doors and refused to venture outside on Black Friday, a day in which many stores have stupendous sales resulting in unhinged behavior on … Continue reading

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Casual Calendar

Charles Choi is back with another app in his great set of Casual packages. This time it’s to provide a menu interface to the calendar/diary functions in Emacs. I don’t use either of these functionalities directly because it’s hard to … Continue reading

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Digital Vs. Analog Notes Redux

My post on Digital Vs. Analog Notes got some excellent comments as well as a followup post from JTR on his site. JTR mostly agrees with what I wrote but I did get some pushback in the comments on Irreal. … Continue reading

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Digital Vs. Analog Notes

Over at The Art Of Not Asking Why, JTR has a couple of posts that explore his struggle with deciding between digital and analog note taking. None of you will be surprised where I come down on the issue—I’m all … Continue reading

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Writing A Book

Over at Parenthetically Speaking, there’s an interesting post on why you should write a book. It’s mainly aimed at academics but its lessons apply to anyone who has something to share. That’s actually a lower bar than you might think. … Continue reading

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Adding A Year Tag From A Capture Template

James Dyer has a good idea for organizing his org-based notes. It’s simple: add a year tag to each note. It helps to organize the notes and makes it easy to filter them by year. When he first implemented the … Continue reading

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Adding Org Image Links From Dired

Over at DyerDwelling there’s another great example of using a bit of Elisp to sand down the friction of a recurring task. The task in question is generating an Org link with attributes for an image file in Dired to … Continue reading

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Organizing A Book In Org Mode

Somehow, I missed this great reference to Ron Galloway’s outline for using Org mode to organize a book. Fortunately, Sacha had me covered with her excellent Emacs News. If you haven’t written a book before, it may be surprising how … Continue reading

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