Chris Maiorana

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…

In his book, The Curmudgeon’s Guide To Getting Ahead, author Charles Murray gives some good advice on writing and thinking. He offers some tips on writing when you know what…

I did a video on the Getting Things Done (GTD) trigger list a while back. (And why I love it so!) These days, the verb “trigger” has taken on a…

Collected in Brennan’s The Shapes of Midnight, “Disappearance” is a first-person narrative told by a sheriff’s deputy in a small town.  The sheriff and the deputy go to an old…

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…

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 it simplifies everyday work tasks….

I’ve been reading horror fiction since I was a wee lad. And from experience, I’d say most horror stories are merely horror-themed—but not actually scary. We’ve all enjoyed stories of…

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 90s, at the end of…

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 is producing written content, not…

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 title alone makes you want…