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Org mode as a gantt chart generator
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Published: July 12, 2026 15:01
The word Gantt tends to evoke project-management software with bars you can drag and a hefty license fee. The underlying idea, tasks arranged on a [...]
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God mode notes with Denote and Consult Notes
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Published: July 1, 2026 01:00
Consult notes is a package that hooks into your note-taking system. It works particularly well with Denote, picking up your notes directory variable automatically. My [...]
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When tmux is your window manager
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Published: June 10, 2026 11:56
I recently wrote a post about writerdecks and minimalist “distraction-free” writing environments in general. I concluded that the most minimalist writing environment you could get [...]
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The Emacs Way: Deleting Files
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Published: April 6, 2026 16:00
I know it’s scary, but sometimes you have to delete files, and once they’re gone—they’re gone. I guess that was why GUI systems invented the [...]
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Let the commits tell the story
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Published: March 30, 2026 11:00
Pull up git log --oneline on a project—or open the Magit log with l l from the status buffer and you might see two slightly [...]
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OrgFolio | Turn your scattered interests into cultivated obsessions
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Published: March 23, 2026 18:34
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about “distributed notebooks” generated in Org Mode and published to bare bones Web 1.0 HTML pages. Now [...]
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Writing gloriously long sentences in Emacs with line highlighting
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Published: March 18, 2026 04:00
Everyone knows I love finding whatever Emacs tricks and dodges I can to help writers. I wrote an article a while back about the benefits [...]
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The Emacs Way: Create Directories
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Published: March 13, 2026 04:00
In the last article in the series, we talked about deleting files, which is scary and sad. In this article, I’m happy to change topics [...]
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The Emacs Way: Moving and Renaming Files
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Published: March 11, 2026 04:00
In the previous article in the Emacs ways series we did a little jive on copying files from one source location to a destination location. [...]
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Toward the Org Mode future: distributed notebooks
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Published: March 5, 2026 05:00
You often see questions like this pop up in places around the Emacs community: how do you take notes in Org Mode? It’s a good [...]
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