:orgmode: #orgmode#emacs I've just realized that attaching short notes to sections of an org file is actually a very useful feature, I never really paid attention too 🤨...
The command is bound by default to C-x C-z ... I have this (org-log-into-drawer . t) in .dir-locals and this in the org file #+startup: logdrawer.
The timestamp is inserted automatically, though it's not necessary for my workflow.
Question for some #emacs#orgmode friends: what's the best way to import a long markdown file INTO an already existing org file and have it look like the rest of the org file? Background is that I'm working on building out One Big Org File and want to import my running daily notes from Obsidian into the org file. I've found ways to convert markdown to org, but don't know how to actually place it in the org file. Thanks!
Taking my new (to me) ThinkPad 450 out for its first stroll. Using it while waiting for the car to be serviced. #linuxmint, #firefox, #emacs, all working like a charm. Keyboard and touchpad are almost perfect, battery life is super long. Screen is a little dim but hey. For under $100US I'm not complaining. This is exactly why I got it and set it up with linux, etc. Oh, also doing some journaling with #orgmode and it seems to be syncing to my home computer with #syncthing. Just about perfect!
A colleague saw me using #Emacs and #OrgMode for my notes, to-dos etc. and said "If you like that, you should try Obsidian". I asked if that has a built-in file browser, shell or can be used as an IDE, and he gave me a confused look that said "Why should it?". One of us is beyond help, I just don't know which one.
Ciao #FOSS people out there!
I need your #help: I would like to "move" my tiny blog from WriteFreely (@write_as, see https://write.as/marco-bresciani/) to something more wiki-like, sort of permanent #OrgMode -based thing (see Digital Gardening concept, even if just as an idea).
A possible solution would be to rely on, say, Codeberg, GitLab (or GitHub) and put there the plain .org files, leaving the lift work to those servers.
Or? Other alternatives? Jekyll? Hugo? Export as HTML? Org-Roam?
Ideas?
Hey #emacs and #orgmode users, I'm curious: do you use a paper agenda/datebook along with org-agenda? I started doing that for a while now.
Context: I'm away from my personal laptop during most of the week. The only time I'm able to consistently check org-agenda is in the weekend, so I'm using org-mode as a repository for personal projects, while keeping the daily TODOs, events and dates in the paper agenda/datebook.
I'm able to keep the paper agenda/datebook with me at all times and update it regularly whenever I catch a break during work.
To start out 2024 I will be going back to analog with the #bulletjournal
Despite some parts of it not working for me, looking back on ‘23 it IS what worked best for my brain. Master lists and inbox will likely be #orgmode#notebook#gtd
Today, I tested #Joplin because people kept arguing that you keep your #Markdown files as local copies which prevents vendor #lockin.
From what I've seen today, this is not a valid argument. The md files are named with random file names, their content is not just md, it's md + JSON for some meta-data.
From what it seems, without Joplin, you'll lose your structure and your internal and external links. This would be a desaster to migrate to a different tool like #orgmode.
Need to blog about it from an #orgmode perspective.
If there is an actual reason not to use #Emacs - and you really should go for this golden standard - then Logseq using #orgdown syntax is a great alternative.
But still, you get the whole #PIM feature-set with Emacs only. That's for sure.
It always bothered me that I couldn’t jump straight to a narrowed task coming from the org-agenda. I now figured how to achieve that and the solution was shockingly simple:
I love #orgmode, but there is an idiosyncrasy in org-capture's that seems atrocious to me. Whenever I go to capture a note, the capture buffer deletes all windows that are open except one, and splits it so only that window and the org-capture window are visible. As far as I can tell this is the behavior regardless of what your settings for display-buffer are.
This seems to be because instead of respecting display-buffer settings it uses delete-other-windows to ignore them instead. I can advise it to ignore delete-other-windows, which is better, but it still undoes any changes I make to my window layout while the org-capture buffer is open. Secondly, it also doesn't restore #EXWM windows properly. I cannot fathom why the maintainers would ignore a user's display-buffer preferences.
This is bad enough that I'm thinking about abandoning org-roam, (and probably any other org-capture based workflows). I carefully curate my window layout so that I have the information needed available to me. Org-capture decides that it knows better, and leaves me with a highly inefficient workflow for accessing the information I need to make my note. I just don't understand the rationale here.
If anyone knows a workaround to this insanity, please let me know.
I'm trying to use #orgmode as a replacement for #jupyter. I'm wondering if others use Org that way, and what their solutions are for getting inline plots/images. Ideally I'd like to be able to get regular stdout output and plot output from the same code block as you can in jupyter, and then have the image show up inline at a reasonable size without having to manually mess with filenames, image sizes or adjust headers every time I want to do that.
It always annoys me that both #OrgMode and #Pandoc do not appear to have a 'clean'/plain flag for generating output.
I want 'plain' LaTeX and HTML with no additions or custom elements...no \tightlist in list environments, nor <div> around sections. Just plain unadulterated markup, that is all...
When I stopped my weekly routine, I also stopped organizing tasks. Now I have one big file mixed with personal and work tasks, some active and some complete. It’s an intimidating blob of “stuff,” and just looking at it makes me want to run away to a video game instead.
When should I visit my projects file and move things out into their categories? Second, what are these categories?
Rethinking and reorganizing my life - with org-mode: