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Emacs

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When a minor annoyance sparks an unreasonable change

This morning, I had trouble finding something that I was certain I'd written yesterday. I was pretty sure I'd written it in one org-mode file or another, but it seemed to be missing. Turns out it wasn't missing. I just couldn't see

Reason I love Org-mode No. 257: archiving TODOs

Just a quick appreciation of a common Org-mode feature. By default, archiving a TODO in Org-mode moves it to another file: "The default archive location is a file in the same directory as the current file, with the name derived by appending ‘_archive’ to the current file name."

I'm doomed...again

Emacs is less than friendly out of the box, so we customize things to suit our own personal tastes and preferences. When starting out, some people even enjoy that part. It's one of the best things about Emacs, but I hated it. I just wanted to do stuff,

Back to Org-roam (from Denote)

🚨Update: I think Org-roam is the right answer for most people, but I could not resist the simplicity and lack of dependencies of Denote, so I am back in Denote as of June, 2023. Using both Org-roam and Denote for my notes is not sustainable. I had to make a

Book logging in Emacs

Logging books I read using Emacs and Org mode

Searching Org-roam files

Org-roam is “A plain-text personal knowledge management system” using Emacs and Org-mode and I put nearly all my notes in there. While it’s easy to find notes in org-roam based on filename, there’s no obvious way to search the contents of notes. Weird, right? I could use the

Publishing portions of my Org-roam database

I’m trying something new. I’ve become a pretty heavy user of Org-roam for personal notes. I put nearly everything there now; technical notes, contact information, project notes, vendor info, etc. These notes are all nicely linked and backlinked and live in my main ~/org directory so I can

Aligning comments in Emacs

I want my per-line code comments to line up nicely, so I’ll often add a bunch of spaces by hand to make things just so. I realized that, being Emacs, there must be an easier way to handle this. Of course there is. Two minutes of searching revealed a

Configuring the org-download save directory

When I drag and drop an image into Emacs, I want the attached file to end up in ./img/YYYY/. This is how I tried configuring org-download in my setup (I use Doom Emacs): 1 2 3 4 (setq org-download-method 'directory org-download-image-dir (concat "img/" (format-time-string "%Y&

Doom Emacs from scratch

A week ago I decided to cancel Doom Emacs and go back to building Emacs from Scratch , and once again I was reminded what a terrible idea that is. Seriously, stock Emacs, even with a leg up from Nano Emacs , gets so many things “wrong” that I could spend the