Tag Archives: Org-mode

Over at the Dead Parrot BBS, nickb has an excellent post extolling the power of plain text. It’s a notion that’s familiar to all us Emacs users and even more so to Org users. We Org users (or more generally … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, BBSnek writes about discovering remember mode. It’s been around for a long time. I remember using it before Org mode. Indeed, I still use Ctrl+c r to invoke org-capture because that was what I was … Continue reading →

Over at Emacs Dwelling, James Dyer has a nice post on capturing only the visible portion of a folded Org region. When you call kill-ring-save (Meta+w) on a folded region, it will capture everything to the kill ring—even the hidden … Continue reading →

You know how people have little “eternal quests” like searching for the perfect wallet, or the perfect t-shirt, or whatever? One of mine is the perfect app for making diagrams in Emacs and Org-mode. My go to solution is Graphviz, … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Low_Money_633 has a paean to Org mode. That’s nothing new, of course. Many of us are long time, devout Org mode fans. What struck me about Low_Money_633’s praise was his description of it as “the … Continue reading →

Randy Ridenour has an interesting post about previewing an Org file in your browser. If you’re like me your first thought is probably, “That’s easy. Just export the Org file to HTML and display it right from the Org export … Continue reading →

Ashish Panigrahi has an interesting post on customizing his agenda view. He’s a graduate student, apparently in the sciences, and has to keep track of his tasks and their statuses. The natural solution for us Emacsers is to use Org … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →