{"id":256,"date":"2011-09-16T14:58:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T18:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2011-12-26T18:03:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T23:03:47","slug":"using-deft-with-org-mode-in-emacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Using Deft With Org Mode In Emacs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earlier this week I wrote about the <a href=\"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=252\">Deft package for Emacs<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/jblevins.org\/projects\/deft\/\">Deft<\/a> is a note taking facility by <a href=\"http:\/\/jblevins.org\/\">Jason Blevens<\/a> modeled on <a href=\"http:\/\/notational.net\/\">Notational Velocity<\/a>. I opined at the time that while Deft provides a simple, lightweight note-taking mode, it doesn&#8217;t offer anything that can&#8217;t be done with <code>org-capture<\/code> and an Org file. <\/p>\n<p> It turns out that djcb over at <a href=\"http:\/\/emacs-fu.blogspot.com\/\">emacs-fu<\/a> disagrees. Although he, like me, is an avid Org mode user, he likes Deft for taking quick notes. I still don&#8217;t see the point and neither did some of his commenters, but djcb replies that although he uses <code>org-capture<\/code> for things like appointments and todo-items, he prefers to take longer, more free-form notes with Deft. He&#8217;s a man who obviously knows what he&#8217;s talking about so I agree when he says, &ldquo;For now, just give it a try (as I do), and see if it sticks&hellip;&rdquo;. <\/p>\n<p> For those of you that want to take that advice, be sure to read his post on <a href=\"http:\/\/emacs-fu.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/quick-note-taking-with-deft-and-org.html\">quick note-taking with deft and org-mode<\/a> for some pointers on setting up Deft to work seamlessly with Org. If you find that integrating Deft and Org mode brings definite benefits, be sure to leave a comment for the rest of us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week I wrote about the Deft package for Emacs. Deft is a note taking facility by Jason Blevens modeled on Notational Velocity. I opined at the time that while Deft provides a simple, lightweight note-taking mode, it doesn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=256\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,4],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs","tag-org-mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}