I’d been happily using Doom Emacs until just over a month ago, when I decided to start from scratch again.Â
Tag: Emacs
I like the idea of building my own Emacs config, so I set Doom aside and (re)built my own configuration (mostly) from scratch.
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.
I’ve been back in Doom Emacs for a few days. This is how it’s going.
I am experimenting with using Org-roam again for my notes.
Listing directories first and hiding file details by default in Dired
Making tags readable in Org-mode DONE headings
I’ve updated my org-mode reading list using my fork of the org-books package
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 a fairly straightforward challenge. I’m not remotely fluent in (emacs) lisp, but I’ve always enjoyed learning, so I would have dug in and figured out how to write the function myself.
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.Â
Obsidian is insidious. Sometimes all I want is to write something down and Obsidian makes that easy. Then it shows you a nice Daily Notes page. Then it makes back/linking easy. Then it teases me with a million simple-to-install plugins.Â