Tag Archives: Org-mode

Dominik Honnef has a nifty post that describes his Org-roam based workflow for taking notes and writing articles. It’s a very thorough and complex system that captures notes, articles that he reads on the web, articles for his blog, and … Continue reading →

I have a longstanding fascination with document layout. It’s something I first learned from Rich Stevens. His books were always visually beautiful with a layout that showed an obsessive attention to detail. Fortunately, he wrote about his process extensively on … Continue reading →

Sacha Chua has a problem. From an Org file, she’d like to link to and possibly include a set of consecutive lines in another (or, I suppose, the same) file. The problem is that the target file may not be … Continue reading →

Nicolas Martyanoff has a (very) short post on some tips for dealing with Org mode headlines. There are three of them: Do not split lines when adding headlines This is a way to add another headline even if you are … Continue reading →

Chris Maiorana has a very nice video up on how he configured Org mode to export to standard manuscript format. The standard manuscript format is the format that’s used—or at least used to be used—for submitting manuscripts for novels and … Continue reading →

There’s a disadvantaged group of people in our industry that use Markdown to prepare their text for output to, say, PDF or HTML. I call these folks disadvantaged because Markdown, although fine for preparing simple documents for publication, has some … Continue reading →

Like many people, Simon Pugnet likes to keep a record of his exercising. His regime includes several types of exercise such as running, sit-ups, and pushups. Also like many of us, he maintains a daily journal so, of course, it … Continue reading →

Chris Mariana has an interesting video on how to prevent losing files when writing in Org mode. It’s a useful post but not really enough to write about. The TL;DR is that it explains how to locate files that were … Continue reading →

I recently came across this post by Chung-hong Chan on academic writing in Emacs that really annoyed me. It’s not anything that Chan said that put my back up but rather a common supposition that he mentioned that I and … Continue reading →