Need Day of Month Reminders in Org Mode? Emacs Sexp Diary Entries to the Rescue

It’s a floating celestial, no a diary float!

June 17, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

Note to Self, Linking to a Headline in an Org File

It ain’t that hard.

June 6, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

Ignoring Syncthing Conflict Files in the Org Agenda Folder

TLDR; I “wrote” a function to loop over a list, find certain files, then negate them.

May 26, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

Org Mode Clocking in and Out of Tasks on Task State Changes

I finally turned to the dark side and used Claude to help me do my work

May 23, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

Org Mode Narrowing and Widening Buffers

Narrow to focus, widen to review and plan. tldr: “C-x n s” to narrow and “C-x n w” to widen

February 26, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

Emacs, Three and a Half Years On

If someone had told me three and a half years ago, that I would: Use Emacs as my primary editor nearly everywhere. Not just as an editor. In fact, I would stop thinking of it as an editor and come to see it for what it really is. A whole computer with an editor bolted on. Use Emacs not just for writing, but also have it serve as the cornerstone for two other extremely important activities in my life, organising my life (with Org Mode) and tending to my commonplace book (with Org Roam) Come so far as to scrape a web page, set it up as a connected node in my Zettelkasten, strip close to fifty superfluous lines, edit the rest to my liking, change the title to title case, and then file it way within minutes, and learn do all this by osmosis and research over the years, just by using it daily and being curious1 Have a kind community support all my crazy attempts to bend Emacs to my will I would have told you, you were off your rocker. But I do, do these things (which, I’m ridiculously pleased with) and have this wonderful community (which, I am earnestly grateful for). Here’s to three and a half decades! ...

December 30, 2023 · Mario Jason Braganza