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Emacs

A collection of 30 posts

The gravitational pull of Emacs

I want things to be simple and without distraction. I want to avoid futzing all the time. To this end, I often try to move away from using Emacs for everything. Emacs is not simple, no matter how hard I try to force it to be simple. So I pull

Howm reminds me of TiddlyWiki

Something I've always liked about TiddlyWiki is that I'm never forced to decide where something goes or what it's named. I can simply click on the new tiddler button, type something, and hit save. Links, tags, or other organization can be applied later, but

Software that sparks joy

I’m just coming off a week using Obsidian. Obsidian is really good and powerful and easy to use and extensible and probably the correct answer to the question, “Where should I keep my notes?”. I love Obsidian for a minute because of what it does and the fact that

Logseq is so close

I've spent some time this week toying with the idea of using Logseq for my daily logging. I prefer writing in outliners and Logseq's outline-based blocks are handy and easy to deal with. Linking is fast and easy. There are queries for when I need to

The care and feeding of my system

Yesterday, for some reason, the menu bar stopped showing when launching Emacs. Good grief. I had to add an explicit call to (menu-bar-mode) in my init.el. Why? Who knows. I'm sure I did something to cause it, but my commit logs don't point to anything

Formatting dates in org-capture templates

I track my weight in an Org-mode table. New entries are added using an Org-mode capture template. It was bugging me that the date format was a full-on Org-mode inactive timestamp like [2024-01-01 Mon]. I just wanted the YYYY-MM-DD portion, but Org's expansion templates don't have

More about Org-mode Island

Earlier, I wrote: Org-mode Island is beautiful, but lonely. Jeremy Friesen reacted to my post with his own thoughtful take on the isolation of using Org-mode: Amongst the Org-Mode Archipelago // Take on Rules Org-Mode is my home hearth. Here I prepare my food. And sometimes I bring that food, wrapped

Beyond the Infinite Denote

My Beyond the Infinite folder is now its own Denote silo. A Denote "silo" is just a folder that contains a .dir-locals.el file. The .dir-locals.el file sets the denote-directory variable, causing Denote commands to look only in that folder (and subfolders) rather than the default Denote

Sending Org-journal entries to Day One

I mentioned here that I should create a lisp function for sending my org-journal entries to Day One. Turns out I'd already done it. The only problem was that the original version assumed I was using a new org file every day. I'm now doing monthly

Spacious-Padding Emacs package

Protesilaos Stavrou updated his spacious-padding package. I’d ignored this earlier but installed it today and it’s a nice, subtle, quality-of-life improvement to Emacs. It increases the padding or spacing of frames and windows on demand. The idea with this package is to provide the means to easily toggle