Tag Archives: Org-mode

Org For Writing And More

Aditya Athalye has a nice post on how he uses Org-mode for writing and more. Like most Org users he started using it for a single task and discovered, as he went along, that he could also use it for … Continue reading

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Babel and Python

This is a sort of Public Service Announcement. One of the great things about Org mode is the code block where you can run code in an Org buffer and have the results inserted into the Org document. I use … Continue reading

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WordStar

Those of us of a certain age will remember WordStar. It was the first hugely popular “word processor” and was used by almost everyone who wanted to write prose of any sort. It was the default word processor in the … Continue reading

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PSA: Emergency Emacs/Org Release

Stefan Kangas writes to tell us about an emergency Emacs release to version 29.4. This is the result of a recently discovered Org mode problem, that you can read about here. Both projects have offered updates. The Org mode announcement … Continue reading

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Org Internal Links

Emacs Elements is back with a useful video on Org mode internal links. If most of your Org documents are short—a blog post, say—you probably haven’t felt the need for internal links but if you, even occasionally, write longer form … Continue reading

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Porting From Obsidian To Org Mode

Lately, I’ve seen a lot of posts asking how to move Obsidian files to Org mode. Even though this is Irreal, I won’t weigh in on why you might want to do that because I’ve never used Obsidian and don’t … Continue reading

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Alphabetical Lists In Org Mode

The other day, I wrote that you never stop learning Emacs. There’s always something new to learn. I just saw a post that reminded me that—at least for me—you never stop relearning Emacs either. The post asked about why indentation … Continue reading

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Beautifying Org Mode

As you all know, I’m not much for editor bling even though I care immensely what my finished text looks like. Still, I did take to heart Charles Choi’s recommendation to use proportional fonts for prose. The idea is that … Continue reading

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A Comparison Of Markdown Editors

Although I find it hard to believe, the Minions assure me that there are still people who prefer writing in Markdown rather than Org-mode. I don’t want to relitigate that issue here. If you’re interested in why no right thinking … Continue reading

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Sparse Trees

Emacs Elements has a short video on sparse trees. The TL;DR is that sparse trees give you a method of filtering an Org file to show only the information that you’re interested in. The information can be random text, a … Continue reading

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