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I know that film photography and Emacs are completely unrelated, but I have been thinking about both of them quite a lot recently.
Since moving back to shooting film in 2003, I have
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There are some great tools for bringing web content into Markdown files, but few that offer the same utility for Org-mode (Orgdown) files.
For example, I use Markdownload extension all the time. It
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I've recently switched from using Org-roam to using Denote for my notes. Org-roam is powerful and cool, but I prefer the more straightforward approach of Denote.
I keep all my notes
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The more notes I put into Org-roam, the more I want to put there.
My Org-roam directory has always been in ~/org/roam, meaning that my database was limited to files I put
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I use Notmuch in Emacs for managing my email. It's fast, powerful, and (once used to it) easy to use.
There are a few oddities I've learned to work
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Emacs can be ugly, but it doesn't have to be. Above we have the highly-polished and thoughtful iA Writer on the left and Emacs on the right.
I'm using
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Dired mode in Emacs is fantastic, but one little thing that annoyed me was that the directory listings show file ownership and permissions, taking up space with information I almost never care about.
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You'll notice that Ihighlight short phrasesin many of my daily post entries here. I think this makes it easier to scan things later. The HTML markup for this is just a
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I've kept a list of books I've read as a plain text (well, technically, Markdown) file for years. I wrote about it here. The public version is rendered using
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Org-roam is "A plain-text personal knowledge management system" using Emacs and Org-mode and I put nearly all my notes in there. While it's easy to find notes in org-roam
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I’m trying something new.
I’ve become a pretty heavy user of Org-roam for personal notes. I put nearly everything there now; technical notes, contact information, project notes, vendor info, etc. These
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I want my per-line code comments to line up nicely, so I’ll often add a bunch of spaces by hand to make things just so. I realized that, being Emacs, there must
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When I drag and drop an image into Emacs, I want the attached file to end up in ./content/images/img/YYYY/. This is how I tried configuring org-download in my setup (I
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I’ve settled on WordPress for this blog. (“settled” is a fluid word for me, but let’s assume I mean it for now). However, I prefer to do most of my writing
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A week ago I decided to cancel
Doom Emacs and go back to building Emacs from Scratch, and once again I was reminded what a terrible idea that is.
Seriously, stock Emacs, even
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As you probably know, I struggle with where to keep my notes. For a few months now it's been a battle between Org-roam and Roam. Org-roam has been in the lead,
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Org-roam continues to impress.
I use org-roam's "Daily Notes" feature every day as a frictionless place to put notes that may or may not need to be moved or
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