Adding an :ID: property to Org-mode files in directory
I wanted to add an :ID: property to several hundred files, but only if one didn't already exist. I cheated and asked ChatGPT for help. It helped.
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Emacs
A collection of 30 posts
A Doom Emacs status update after several days
Some quick notes on my move back to Doom Emacs after a few days.
After once again hitching my wagon to Doom Emacs, I have been both elated and frustrated. I’m elated because Doom adds so many nice little quality-of-life improvements that make using Emacs downright pleasant right out
Diving back into Org-roam
I’ve decided to dive back into Org-roam and see how it feels. I’ve done this before, but eventually moved back to Denote. I love Denote’s simplicity, but I have noticed that I don’t take advantage of many of its main advantages. For example, I always use
Tweaks to my Dired config in Emacs
At some point during my latest round of build-emacs-config-from-scratch, I must have missed part of my Dired settings.
I want Dired to only show the file name rather than all the file attributes, and I want folders displayed first. Instead, now I see all file details and folders are sorted
How many times am I going to fix RSS images for the first time?
OMG I never learn. Even when I write stuff down.
Every time I switch back to Hugo, I complain about the fact that when using relative image links in Hugo’s Page Bundles, they don’t work in the RSS feed. Then I spend time digging around old forum posts
Org-rainbow-tags
I don’t normally use tags in Org-mode files, so I hadn’t noticed that tags on DONE headings use the same face as the heading itself. This makes the tags difficult to spot. Every theme I tested failed to differentiate between heading text and tags on DONE headings.
Here’
Books.org redo
For a couple of years, I kept my reading list in an Org-mode file. I found it a bit tedious, and the only thing I did about that was to stop doing it. I mean, I always seem to be on the verge of abandoning Emacs anyway, right?
Well, I’
Asking ChatGPT to do things I used to think were fun
I’ve been testing a version of Johnny Decimal using folders and org-mode files. While doing this, I found myself frequently wanting to create a new .org file in the current (Dired) directory with the same name as the directory (long story).
In a past life, this would have been
Purged the things that want to take over for Emacs
As often happens, I started to waffle on where to keep my notes. I blame Obsidian for this. But also Bear and Evernote and Logseq and DEVONthink and and and.
Obsidian is insidious. Sometimes all I want is to write something down and Obsidian makes that easy. Then it shows
Into Doom and out again
Doom Emacs is pretty great, especially for former Vimmers. I lived in Doom for a long time because it makes so many little things nicer, without having to dedicate one’s life to customizing Emacs.
Toward the end of last year I wrote I’m Doomed again when I moved