I use Emacs on Windows, with generally ok performance. Today, it took several minutes for Emacs to start, and I could not use the mouse to position the cursor (had to use all keyboard commands). Lazyweb – anyone else seen this before?

Org Mode for Beginners is back!

Several years ago, I started a site (Org Mode for Beginners) to host videos to help people learn how to use Org Mode within the Emacs text editor. I have not made any new videos for several years, but I am ready to start making Org Mode videos again, and wanted to let my readers know. I also wanted to get some feedback on what topics people would like to see covered in my videos. I would really appreciate it if you could reply and tell me your number one question about using Org Mode, what would help you to be more productive, or make better use of Org Mode. That would help me to best target your needs! Thanks in advance for your reply, and be watching for a new video soon!

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)

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)

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.

Fugue: A CEO’s Guide to Emacs – An interesting “why Emacs?” tale, followed by some specific settings/enhancements – meaty, but not overwhelming – nice!

GNU.org: An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp (links to multiple formats, will look at this sometime)

My GTD Emacs Workflow (Getting Things Done)

This video shows using Emacs agenda mode and org-mode along with customized configuration to support a fairly detailed workflow for the Getting Things Done method.