Tag Archives: Org-mode

Highest Org Priority

If you’re an Org user, you probably know that you can assign a priority to TODO items. By default, the priorities are A, B, and C but with a bit of trickery you can extend the ranges to 0–9 and … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Problems With Org Mode Code Blocks

Raymond Zeitler has an interesting post on an aspect of using Org Mode code blocks that I didn’t know about. Zeitler says that he prefers to write his code in separate code files rather than in Org mode code blocks … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Linking A Diary Event To An Org Heading

Ray Zeitler has a useful post that describes how to solve a niche problem involving Emacs diary and Org mode. The problem is you have an event scheduled in your diary and you want access to an Org heading for … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Correcting The Orientation of macOS Photos on Linux

JTR over at The Art Of Not Asking Why describes a problem—and its resolution—that I didn’t know existed. The TL;DR is that photographs taken with an iPhone are always captured in landscape mode but Apple’s software detects portrait photos and … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Fonts and Typesetters

John Gruber has a very interesting—at least for those of us who obsess about typography—post on the fonts used by the various federal courts of appeal. For those of you who don’t know, the courts are very strict about the … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Grove

Jonathan Chu is a software engineer and Emacs enthusiast who’s been looking for a note taking app that he can actually use. He’s tried all the usual suspects but found them too opinionated for his liking. He wanted to work … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Help Test Scrim v. 1.3.3

If you’re a macOS Emacs user and haven’t tried Scrim, you may want to give it a spin. The TL;DR is that it solves the Org Protocol problems on macOS. Along with Captee, it allows you to easily share links … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Orgy

Irreal, in both its incarnations, has always used a dynamic Web site: first on Blogger and now on WordPress. I like them both. They’re easy to use and, really, perfect for non-technical people who want to blog. At this point, … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Moving From Obsidian To Emacs

Curtis McHale runs an online book club where readers share their posts on the current book. He’s been using Longform in Obsidian but it kept corrupting his data organization so he decided to move to Emacs. His site requires Markdown … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

OrgFolio

Chris Maiorana takes a lot of notes. He’s a writer after all. Once he’s taken those notes, he wants an easy and convenient way of viewing them. These days that usually means viewing them as a Web page. Org mode, … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment