Posted on August 5, 2025 by chris in Emacs, Writing
One of the things I really like about Org Mode is the support for file includes. #+INCLUDE: /path/to/file This allows you to integrate contents from another file into whatever file…
We are in the thick of summer. That’s for sure. That means I’m spending afternoons strategically in the shade—and writing. As I’ve mentioned—probably—in other posts, most of the work of…
Posted on July 11, 2025 by chris in Emacs, Writing
Writing involves organizing a lot of information, sometimes spread across multiple files. You want to be able to wrangle all that data with a delicate touch, all the while keeping…
Posted on June 19, 2025 by chris in Emacs, Writing
As I’ve mentioned in previous blog posts, keeping notes in Emacs can be overwhelming, even though Org Mode gives you a rich set of functions for managing notes. It should…
Finally, after many years of using Emacs for writing, I have assembled what I believe are the key points necessary to take any non-programmer writer gently by the hand into…
I just published a video about a Reddit post in which an Obsidian user asks about Emacs: pros and cons, and “aha” moments. I’m not big on software supremacy type…
For a while, I’ve wanted to create a simple note-taking system in Emacs. Inspired by the Denote package, I wanted to create something that Used only native Emacs functionality (but…
Before I converted my website over to WordPress, I was generating the HTML files from Org mode. First of all, this was awesome. And honestly, I would prefer to do…