Tag Archives: Org-mode

Org Remark

If you’re the type of person who likes to annotate files but keep your notes external to the file itself, you may be interested in nobiot’s org-remark. There are a couple of videos [1, 2] that show how it works … Continue reading

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Org Blk URI

Just a quickie. I stumbled across a post from Andrea that describes his package Org Blk URI. It’s pretty simple: it’s just a way of extracting the content at a URL into an Org source block. That’s handy for capturing … Continue reading

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Org Footnote Assistant

Andrea Lazzarini has an interesting, small package to help with footnote creation and editing in Org buffers. The package offers some amenities such as easily moving between footnotes but, to me, the major win is displaying or editing a footnote … Continue reading

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Generating Documents Directly From Elisp

I’ve had this in my blog queue since April but it’s too good to let it fall into the bit bucket. Álvaro Ramírez has a problem with his chatgpt-shell package. He has some documentation in the form of tables, which … Continue reading

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Converting an Excel Spreadsheet to an Org Table

I no longer use spreadsheets and haven’t for a long time. I don’t think there are any spreadsheet instances on any of my computers and if there are, they are relics from the mists of time. Any spreadsheet operations that … Continue reading

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Using Table Data in a Shell Code Block

Just a quickie on a quickie from Grant Rettke. The quickie is an example from Rettke on how to import and use a table in an Org code block using shell. The secret is that the table entries get passed … Continue reading

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On Org Alternatives

There’s a phenomenon that I both understand and don’t understand. That phenomenon is happy Emacs or Org users feeling the need to try out every alternative that comes their way. Notice I said “happy” users. If Emacs or Org isn’t … Continue reading

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A Clean Writing Environment

Dhavan Vaidya has an interesting post on a clean writing environment. It’s his idea of the ideal writing milieu. What strikes me about his post is that his idea of the best writing setup is completely different from mine. About … Continue reading

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DALL-E in Org Mode

If you follow Alvaro Ramirez’s work, you’ll soon discover that his usual procedure with a project is to start with a good idea and then keep pushing it to improve it and add new features. A case in point is … Continue reading

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ChatGPT in Org Mode

There’s been a lot of excitement about ChatGPT lately so of course Emacs hackers have risen to the challenge with Emacs interfaces to it. The first I was aware of was Vivek Haldar’s contribution but there have been several others. … Continue reading

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