Tag Archives: Org-mode

Because I’m the way I am, I keep fairly detailed records of my day. My system is loosely based on the NYPD memo books in which officers record every event they respond to as well as other useful data. I … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Hungry-Accountant-99 has an interesting post about Peter Prevos’ Emacs Writing Studio (EWS). I’ve written about EWS before [1, 2, 3] and have always found it an interesting project. Prevos gave a talk at EmacsConf 2024 … Continue reading →

One of the things I’m always looking for is an easy way to take quick notes. Currently, I handle this with various Org capture buffers: one for temporary notes and another to capture notes for my journal when I want … Continue reading →

As you all know, we here at the Irreal bunker are all in on Org mode. We use it for everything from taking notes, keeping a journal, setting reminders for tasks, and writing this blog. Virtually all our writing is … Continue reading →

One of the goals of many Emacs users is to be able read and write Org entries on their phones or tablets. There are several solutions for this. On the Android platform, one of the most popular was Orgzly. Sadly, … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez has a nice post that expands on his theme of gluing Emacs functions together. It’s a nice example in part because it’s so out of the ordinary and seemingly impossible from within Emacs. It turns out that Ramírez … Continue reading →

A week ago, I wrote about Matt Magire’s use of Emacs and Org mode to prepare notes for the students in his mathematics classes. In his post, Magire mentioned that Org mode was especially useful for producing tables for export … Continue reading →

I’ve written in the past on my astonishment about people who are able to take mathematics class notes in LaTeX fast enough to keep up with the instructor: 1, 2, and 3. Some people who do this use Emacs, some … Continue reading →

Charles Choi has a handy tip on converting from Mardown to Org. My first thought was that I don’t care about this because I write everything in Org Mode and never use Markdown. But then it occurred to me that … Continue reading →

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 →