https://screwlisp.small-web.org/emacs/writing-experience/

My #emacs #writing #writingExperience #emacsCarnival submission.

Discussing my transition to #eev away from being a heavy user of the popular #orgmode.

My writing primarily concerns #lisp #programming, so the difference between #eepitch and #orgBabel features heavily.

Looking forward to hearing from everyone including the other emacs carnivalians.

CC @greg (Writing Experience emacs carnival host)

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/emacs/writing-experience/

My #emacs #writing #writingExperience #emacsCarnival submission.

Discussing my transition to #eev away from being a heavy user of the popular #orgmode.

My writing primarily concerns #lisp #programming, so the difference between #eepitch and #orgBabel features heavily.

Looking forward to hearing from everyone including the other emacs carnivalians.

CC @greg (Writing Experience emacs carnival host)

After years with Obsidian, I've found that Emacs/Org offers the flexibility and power I need. Using Denote for note management, Xeft for searching my old vaults, and DEVONThink To Go for mobile access.

The transition wasn't without challenges, but the customization possibilities are endless.

Read about my journey and setup: https://mike.hostetlerhome.com/from-obsidian-to-emacs

#Emacs#OrgMode#PKM #Obsidian#NoteTaking#Productivity

I know I shouldn't be, but I'm proud of my cursed hacks.

This particular one was made trivial by #OrgMode.

After years with Obsidian, I've found that Emacs/Org offers the flexibility and power I need. Using Denote for note management, Xeft for searching my old vaults, and DEVONThink To Go for mobile access.

The transition wasn't without challenges, but the customization possibilities are endless.

Read about my journey and setup: https://mike.hostetlerhome.com/from-obsidian-to-emacs

#Emacs#OrgMode#PKM #Obsidian#NoteTaking#Productivity

@tante @mba Don't fall for that religious argument shit. I'm deeply into Personal Information Management and I assure you that this a priori refusal is not a very clever move.

#Emacs is probably the greatest tool there is. Unfortunately, it's so different to other tools you know that it's complex to explain without running yourself for a couple of weeks.

Just watch some random videos online to get some impression of the potential.

Other #PIM tools are like Playmobil. #Orgmode is like Lego. You'll build your digital workflows according to your requirements. It will adapt and change as your world does. You'll never lose any data because of some tool discontinuity or proprietary Markdown syntax elements.

Don't be intimidated by the Org-mode power: you should start lean and it's easy to do so: https://karl-voit.at/2020/01/20/start-using-orgmode/

Without serious trying yourself, you can't have a qualified judgement about this. I had to realize it myself as I began to understand Emacs only by retrying 10y later.

I am planning on moving my shit away from Notion.

The whole "2nd Brain" thing does not work for me (it just gives me busywork instead of doing something useful) so what I am looking for

- self-hostable
- should have a web interface I can use from any machine without installation
-I need "tasks", "projects" that contain tasks and "notes" (ideally optionally connected to projects and/or tasks)
- boards for tasks
- mobile app or good mobile website
- I want it to look nice
- bonus Points for offline mode/Linux client

Any suggestions? (Assume that I can google, I'd like recommendations of things you actually used at some point in time)

@tante Oh, yes. You can switch to the next best hype or invest a bit for #Orgmode and be happy for the rest of your life.

https://karl-voit.at/orgmode/

Drop me a line if you need any help.

#PIM

Happy to announce that the Org protocol page on Worg has been updated for 2025. Its last significant update was 3 years ago and much of the content on it was stale. Most of it has been refreshed, although not all due to resource availability (anybody here using recent Windows and Org protocol? Contact me.) Learn all about it at the link below.

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.html

Thanks to Max Nikulin and Christian Moe for their feedback!

#Emacs#OrgMode

Happy to announce that the Org protocol page on Worg has been updated for 2025. Its last significant update was 3 years ago and much of the content on it was stale. Most of it has been refreshed, although not all due to resource availability (anybody here using recent Windows and Org protocol? Contact me.) Learn all about it at the link below.

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.html

Thanks to Max Nikulin and Christian Moe for their feedback!

#Emacs#OrgMode

#Pikchr (pikchr.org) is a great little piece of software from the SQLite folks. It parses a little language for describing diagrams with boxes and lines and things, and puts out SVG.

#OrgMode (orgmode.org) has, among many other things, a way you can make code notebooks, #OrgBabel. Like #Jupyter, but less webby, and inside #Emacs, and supporting many languages - even multiple in the same document - thence its name.

Thanks to the ob-pikchr package by @SReyCoyrehourcq, Pikchr is one of the languages you can just write in the middle of your document this way.

Pikchr supports #darkmode, and I've just made a pull request that gets ob-pikchr in on the dark-mode game.

https://github.com/reyman/ob-pikchr/pull/1

Many thanks to Sebastien for the help ob-pikchr has provided in diagramming my thoughts! You go use it too!

#FreeSoftware

Hello, here's my fediverse re- #introduction since I moved to #fediscience

I'm a computational biologist/bioinformatician, professor at UCLouvain in Brussels. I work with various types of omics data, with a special interest in #MassSpectrometry and #proteomics. I (co-)develop and maintain several #rstats and #Bioconductor packages. In addition to R, I use #emacs and #orgmode quite a bit.

Thanks for reading!

Hello, here's my fediverse re- #introduction since I moved to #fediscience

I'm a computational biologist/bioinformatician, professor at UCLouvain in Brussels. I work with various types of omics data, with a special interest in #MassSpectrometry and #proteomics. I (co-)develop and maintain several #rstats and #Bioconductor packages. In addition to R, I use #emacs and #orgmode quite a bit.

Thanks for reading!