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Getting Helm and org-refile to clock in or create tasks
I’ve been thinking about how to improve the way that I navigate to, clock in, and create tasks in Org Mode. If the task is one of the ones I’ve planned for today, I use my Org agenda. If I know that...
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Emacs Org Mode and the power of plain text
When I build a tool for other people to use and I want to store data, I usually have to think in terms of relational databases: tables, fields, and queries. There are other kinds of databases out...
View ArticleEmacs Hangout 2015-03-18 show notes
We chatted about Org coolness and workflows; learning Emacs and deliberate practice; speech recognition; alternate layouts. Event page: https://plus.google.com/events/cbj3rg26d8j9ifaiff5uq00ncr4 What’s...
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The balance between doing and improving – evaluating yak-shaving
A reader wrote: … I came to realize that many Emacs users seem to spend a great deal of time learning about Emacs, tweaking it, and writing new extensions, rather than getting non-Emacs-related work...
View ArticleJohn Wiegley on organizing your Emacs configuration with use-package
In this video, John Wiegley talks about use-package, how he uses it to get ridiculously fast Emacs bootup times, and how you can use it too. =) For more info about use-package, see...
View Article2015-04-08 Emacs Lisp Development Tips with John Wiegley
You can find John Wiegley on Twitter (@jwiegley) or at http://newartisans.com/. 0:00:00 Paredit mode. Start with it from day 1! Matching pairs of parentheses, won’t let you delete one without the...
View ArticleEmacs Hangout 2015-04-15 show notes
We chatted about packages, packaging, databases, and the upcoming Emacs conference. Event page: https://plus.google.com/events/c3igul0rj6cfc1qbcar91lrcj0s What’s this Emacs Hangout thing about? This is...
View Article2015-04-30 Emacs Hangout – hosted by Philip Stark
Thanks to Philip Stark for organizing an Emacs Hangout that’s more conducive to European timezones! Here’s the video and the notes. You can add more comments on the event page. For more about upcoming...
View Article2015-05-13 Emacs Hangout
Console Emacs vs GUI Emacs, keybindings, Org Mode, cooking, nyan, window management, calendars, SuperCollider Usual disclaimer: times are approximate, and the note-taker often gets distracted. =)...
View ArticleAdding calculations based on time to the Org Agenda clock report
Duplicating this answer on my blog in case StackOverflow goes away. =) Leo asked: I’m trying to make the Agenda Clockreport show how many pomodoros I’ve invested in a task. A Pomodoro is 25 minutes....
View ArticleUsing Emacs Org Mode tables to calculate doses to buy
I got tired of manually calculating how many I needed to buy based on a daily protocol and how many I had in stock, so I wrote a little bit of Emacs Lisp to figure it out. You can specify the type,...
View ArticleProviding values to functions in org-capture-templates
Over at the Emacs StackExchange, Raam Dev asked how to define functions for org-capture-templates that could take arguments. For example, it would be useful to have a function that creates a Ledger...
View ArticleUsing your own Emacs Lisp functions in Org Mode table calculations: easier...
I recently wrote about calculating how many doses you need to buy using an Org Mode table. On reflection, it’s easier and more flexible to do that calculation using an Emacs Lisp function instead of...
View ArticleEmacs Hangout June 2015
Times may be off by a little bit, sorry! 0:04:13 Vagrant 0:04:25 Org Mode, LaTeX, R 0:08:00 howdy – org-contacts, e-mail, chat, phone – link 0:14:38 big data 0:21:38 tramp, projectile 0:32:00 Emacs...
View ArticleJuly 2015 Emacs Hangout
We talked about Python, Org Mode, system administration, keybindings, Hydra, and other neat things. =) I’ll probably set up another hangout mid-August, or we’ll just do the one on the 29th. We’ll see!...
View ArticleOrg Mode date arithmetic
Whenever I need to get Emacs to prompt me for a date or time (even for non-Org things), I use org-read-date. I love its flexibility. It’s great to be able to say things like +3 for three days from now,...
View ArticleAugust 2015 Emacs Hangout
Thanks to Philip Stark for hosting this one! 00:07 reproducible research 00:13 windows 00:18 mail 00:30 config 00:34 spacemacs 00:40 keys 00:50 Emacs -nw 00:55 sessions, projectile 00:57 hydra 01:02...
View ArticleEmacs Conf video tech notes: jit.si, twitch.tv, livestreamer, ffmpeg
Last week’s Emacs Conf was fantastic. There were lots of people at the in-person event in San Francisco, and people could also watch the stream through twitch.tv and ask questions through IRC. There...
View ArticleUpdate on Emacs Conf 2015 videos; Org Mode tables and time calculations
I spent the day cutting up the rest of the videos from the Emacs Conference 2015 Twitch.tv stream into individual talks. I’d already cut the set of talks before lunch, but there were quite a few more...
View Article2015-10-14 Emacs Hangout
Another Emacs Hangout, hooray! Thanks to everyone who participated. Enjoy watching, and I hope to see you at the next one! Event page – Mailing list for notifications Partial list of fuzzy timestamps:...
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