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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
You’ll notice Emacs inspires words like “magical,” “beautiful,” and “elegant” in descriptions of its interface and functionality. It’s not surprising when you consider how nicely […]
I once read somewhere that P.G. Wodehouse wrote 2,000-3,000 words a day at his peak, but that number crept down to about 1,000 in his […]
I have some new, magic commands in Emacs that have become very dear to me in my daily workflow. As you all know, my focus […]
I finally got around to reading the big Zettelkasten book: How To Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning, and Thinking. The […]
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