#emacs people: Is there an easy way to customise org-capture (and perhaps org-agenda) to just use the same window and leave my window management alone?
I’m knee-deep into stack overflow posts and wasting way too much time here. This is one of my most longstanding annoyances of #orgmode
(This is actually one of the reasons #orgrr does not use org-capture for new notes.)
I’m currently trying out Joplin:
– Free sync via Dropbox—which is a bit slow. I may eventually switch to Joplin Cloud ($2.40/month).
– Relatively simple UI—which is exactly what I want. Obsidian has many features I don’t need.
I wrote a small post on using the rx macro in places where it's not supported, e.g. in Lisp data files.
rx is a macro which takes a special Lisp form and complies it to a regular expressions string.
The post demonstrates how I use #orgmode with noweb expansion to insert rx results in a source file. In this case, I use it to write scoring rules for elfeed-score with more readable regular expressions.
Designing #ToolsForThought - one of the long-term things I have been musing about is how to combine the power of the bullet-point outliner with the power of the long-form writing tool. The issue is, both are pretty powerful in a modern setting. Throw something like Capacities together with something like Tana. The interface gets nastily cluttered.
So why don't separate them a bit? Here's what I call a 90/10 solution - it's not perfect, but I think it manages most of the things needed. 1/n
(neat side effect: this gives you a base syntax for literary programming. #orgmode has this entire idea of creating "cells" of code inbetween your other nodes, which can either be evaluated or exported out of the notes as source code files. The same works here.
And programming/plugin/extension-wise, having a new cell type do A New Thing also becomes pretty cleanly defined. Overall, a promising idea I think.