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!

New York Times: “Here Is One Way to Steal the Presidential Election” by Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman – Gives an overview of how state legislators could direct electors on how to cast their electoral votes, and some ideas to stop this. I would say this could happen – let’s be careful out there!

Jeffrey Zeldman: Knowledge Management for the Win – gives some examples of online org/companies sharing handbooks/guides, makes the statement that the main areas of KM are accumulating, storing, and sharing knowledge. Brief, but has some good links. (My category on knowledge management)

James Gallagher: The what, why, how formula of technical writing – “These three questions allow me to evaluate the extent to which my writing and the writing of others follows through on its stated goals.”. The post gives examples of each question – nice!

Ark: Ark is a static website generator built in Python. It’s small, elegant, and simple to use. (via Greg Wilson) Greg Wilson uses this to create his blog and many of his books.

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.

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)