Maggie Appleton: Daily Notes Pages – Describes a practice of having a daily page which serves as a collector of thoughts/ideas, which can then be refined and turned into more detailed notes, or left in the daily page to be found through tags or searches.
January 2024
Nick Anderson: How I Org in 2024 – “Org-mode is my exocortex, second brain, second mind, mind palace, pensive, and personal knowledge management system. It’s very flexible and the features I use as well as how I organize my files continues to change so I collected things here to document how I do things in 2024, I did this in 2023 as well.” Interesting descriptions of use of org-capture and how he retrieves information from his org files. (via Sacha Chua)
LWN.net: Notes on Emacs Org Mode by Jake Edge – Briefly talks about using Org Mode for lists and todos, and discusses the Babel and org-roam extensions.
Maryanne Wachter: How I Org – Examples of Emacs configuration and several examples of how the author uses Org/Emacs (via Sacha Chua)
Fedora Magazine: “This is an article about my journey to finding and configuring Emacs as a writer’s text editor and the results of my journey.” – A gentle introduction to how the author started using Emacs and an overview of features. (via Sacha Chua)
Github/James Gill: Writing with Emacs – “Emacs has a long history of being used for writing prose, blog posts, technical books, novels, and more. Here are some first-hand experiences you might find useful, whether you’re new to Emacs or just looking for ideas to customize your current Emacs configuration.” (via Sacha Chua)
Doomer Optimism: Episode 25 – Interview with John Michael Greer
Greg Wilson/The Third Bit: The First Six Questions – Greg Wilson continues to explore ways to teach the social sciences, interesting reading
Sacha Chua: Emacs tweaks: Choosing what to hack on – I liked this post a lot, showing Sacha’s process for working on her Emacs setup, and providing some insight on hacking in general.