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Possibly, because it is not developed from GitHub, even if that repo is from Bastien.
If I'm not mixing up anything, the development repo is https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode (that's is the link on Org's site https://orgmode.org/install.html). But I recall something about savannah, and indeed you find an Org repo alongside Emacs at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/. I not sure which is "the source" right now, but as far as I know, it is not GitHub.
That is because orgmode is a lot of things. It is first and formost a markup language (similar to markdown) and an emacs-mode to work with the markup language. It can be used for literate programming, managing TODOs and a lot more.
Since everything is stored in plaintext files (with .org extention) it should be really portable. Unfortunatelly there is only really one library that deals with all the aspects of org-mode: the emacs-mode itself.
It sounds like you may like org-mode in Emacs. It's not quite the same as markdown, but the idea behind the syntax is fairly similar. You can write out equation using Latex (just put $$...$$ in your writing), and also you can embed longer sections of pure Latex as needed. It can export to pure Latex as well. It does a whole bunch of other stuff too, so it can be a bit overwhelming at first. But if you're not opposed to using Emacs then you should check it out.
Org-mode is written in ELisp, so only Emacs can run the most full-featured version. There are some reimplementations in other languages that do not offer the full range of Org-mode, so you can evaluate them to see if they may fit your needs.
https://orgmode.org/tools.html
This page has a list of tools that work with or on org files. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, and depending on your specific use case, you may be satisfied with pandoc or need to export to WordPress.
I have little experience with these, but they should give you a place to start, if any will be enough for your use case.
Keep in mind, these are third party, and are not supported by the Org-mode project. The latest changes may not work with these tools, and you don't get live programming in any of them.
It''s presumably a bit tongue-in-cheek, referring to Emacs Org Mode and its syntax/conventions. I don't actually use it much personally, but people definitely do. There are actually plugins for non-emacs editors/ides to handle org mode structure, but most people would use Emacs....
> Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.
It's not quite the same thing as restructured text or markdown, but there is perhaps some overlap conceptually. org's more oriented to ....organising stuff... and interactive use though. There's a possibility you've unknowingly encountered syntax intended to be used with it before in an ascii text or comments context and just assumed an author had some idiosyncratic convention.
https://orgmode.org/guide/Multi_002dstate-Workflow.html and then maybe I'd look into something like agenda or search or something which lists things in certain states only... (i.e. it's useful to think about org-mode sometimes as a nice db with queries etc)
(Sorry, for not being more detailed. Just a quick write up. Hope it gets you started.)
Pinging u/Suulace since they expressed interest too.
I'm a software engineer and use GTD both at home and at work. At work I've found it extremely helpful, though it may be the nature of my specific job. I get handed random tasks pretty constantly on several projects, so knowing 100% that they're all written down has been really important for my peace-of-mind. There have been many times where I've only been able to properly follow up on things at the right time because of the system. Before I used it I got fairly stressed out, trying to keep it all in my head. So yeah, definitely gets my vote and while the book is targeted at "business people", it's still all relevant. One caveat is that the author is a fan of paper, though he freely admits that he's a bit of a technophobe, lol. It's also less useful the fewer things you have to juggle, but imo still worthwhile even if you only have a couple projects to keep track of.
For tools, I'd recommend org mode for Emacs since you're in software. Emacs is good as a text editor to know anyway, and org mode can be as simple or as complex as you need. Personally I'd recommend tracking tasks and scheduled dates at a minimum since you can set it up to give you a list of things that you're supposed to have done on a given day, or if you're supposed to follow up with someone. On my phone (iOS) I use beorg, which has a subset of org mode in it which I can sync over DAV. Android has various org mode apps iirc.
Feel free to ask if you have any questions! Hope it helps some.
Yes, and there is also https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-element-api.html. These and 2 are my permanently open tabs. But I must say that without reading the source code they are quite cryptic, and full of overloaded terms and confusing. I started org-rs hoping that they will be enough. Boy they are not..
I knew I should have used DDG for just a bit longer: apparently what I'm after is called Macro Replacement (https://orgmode.org/manual/Macro-Replacement.html).
One thing I'm still curious about is whether Macro's can be defined at the subtree level.
I've kept extensive personal notes and todos in org for … 10+ years?
I've used various bug systems throughout that time … Bugzilla, MySQL's internal, Oracle's internal, multiple Jira instances…
You should not keep hidden, private data separately from another system.
The ticketing system you are using is probably the "System of Record", the "Single Point of Truth" for tickets, if not (one of) the single-most-important system in your enterprise.
Keeping things like "status", "notes" and "components" separate from that system is … somewhere near negligence.
If you think a ticket is in the "java" and "ui" components, that information /deserves to be in the ticket itself/!
(And, arguably, even super-ticketing-system personal planning information should also be kept in such systems, but I digress. I also note that I do not do this.)
As mentioned, org-jira or a work-alike is probably the best thing, here.
I would not recommend one-file-per-record. I think one ticket per heading is what you really want.
You can modify the workflow states in org, yes.
Org does have a :tags:syntax: you can use, and use to query/filter records.
I know this is really tangential but I use org-mode for note taking and I can export my notes to PDF of markdown or text or whatever format and I can run block of code in it and insert them in my notes. It's so nice. I wish more people knew about it because I had been looking for the something like this for the longest time before I finally came upon it.
I know that /u/robthorpe is using emacs (the tool behind org-mode) as well but I didn't see it discussed here ever so that's that.
(setq org-odt-preferred-output-format "doc")
Default Org to export ODT in Word format (.doc). I discovered it tonight right before I get off from work and send it to my manager, very convenient for exporting docs for business colleagues for editing. See manual for more options.
> So, to help the next new guy who comes here I'm posting my org configuration complete with comments.
We generally have https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/index.html for Org introduction. If you have any ideas how to improve the page, patches are welcome.
You want to utilize M-x org-edit-src-code (Bound by default to context-sensitive bind C-c '). What this does is that it takes the code in the block and opens it in a new buffer with the block's language major mode on so that all of the regular editing commands work. See https://orgmode.org/manual/Editing-Source-Code.html . This is the intended solution to the problem you're having.
David O'Toole's tutorial should give you an idea of the basics, and the feature list of what's possible with just the built-in stuff.
An org file is a plain text file, wherein lines starting with one or more * constitute a tree of headings and subheadings and the rest is the (optional) body of the headline(s). How you organize your notes etc. within these confines is up to you.
For example, you could use separate files for different subjects where every first level heading corresponds to a note. Using org's agenda feature you could see an overview of all todo items sprinkled throughout these different files with a single keyboard shortcut.
Or you could have a single file where you dump everything and use e. g. tags or properties to filter the display down to whatever you need to see at the moment.
The beauty of it is that you can tweak it to fit your workflow.
You need to change your export settings
Customizing org-export-with-section-numbers will change the default. You can also set it per-file, with:
#+OPTIONS: num:nil
You will get better answers if you give specific things about org-mode's display you would like to configure. Some suggestions can be found here: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-appearance.html
Different header sizes can be done easily by modifying the :height attribute of the org-level faces, see https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/26781/customize-colors-of-level-in-org-mode for examples of configuring them.
As someone else suggested, check out org-bullets for fancy header leaders.
A good way forward is to experiment with all the different face attributes found here https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Face-Attributes.html applied to the different org faces.
One example I use, is setting a :box around code blocks and changing the :background inside the code block.
Org mode can look awesome, being text-based doesn't limit the display like you might imagine.
I've been using org-mode for 3 years, and I still only use it as a better Markdown-mode with folding and links.
However, just last week I did re-print the cheat-sheet and have been trying to exercise more features...
This! org-mode is the most amazing thing I've ever used. todos are customizable. For example you can set different states, say I can customize to create a wait and cancel state, you also link a to-do directly to a line in code.
There's a lot of cool things you potentially can do. For example I output my weekly agenda onto my desktop.
While I personally keep a separate note where I keep all my todos. I think org-mode was originally meant to be used having todos scattered over multiple notes files and an agenda view helping keep track of all the dos in a single window.
If you ever begin using it, my advice would be to start simple, once you get used to it, you can slowly add layers of complexity to suit your preferences because if I started with what I'm using right now in the beginning, I'd be overwhelmed. I still need to work on mine, but I find that at points of time when I have loads of work to do (say exams) It works for me really well.
https://orgmode.org/manual/Template-expansion.html#Template-expansion
See ‘%^{PROP}p’ for interactively add the property.
Or do “:PROPERTIES:\n:CAPTURED: %U\n:END:”
Everything is just plain text, so tome stamps can go everywhere.
In general reading the manual is good practice (;
tl;dr:
#+LINK: jira https://jira.mycompany.com/browse/%s [[jira:TASK-1234][TASK-1234: label]]
Link Abbreviations in the org manual.
>Ideally I'd like to see a habit only today, and once finished, tomorrow. But not on every day in my agenda view.
The "habits" module works that way out-of-the-box (see https://orgmode.org/manual/Tracking-your-habits.html#Tracking-your-habits).
You can use something like the built in Repeating Tasks or if you need to track how you are doing over time, try out Org Habits.
You can escape your brackets by using "entities": https://orgmode.org/manual/Special-symbols.html
It's a bit hard to find, but there's M-x org-entities-help which gives \lt and \rt.
Are you familiar with how visibility cycling is supposed to work in org mode files? If not, look in the manual (https://orgmode.org/org.html#Visibility-cycling) or check out one of the many introductions to org mode available on YouTube.
The extra file is a backup file. For suggestions to change the behavior of backup files, checkout the answer on on this SO question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/151945/how-do-i-control-how-emacs-makes-backup-files#151946
Properties are pretty nice when using column-view: https://orgmode.org/manual/Column-view.html
That can also be used to create tables out of headlines in a file, using Dynamic blocks: https://orgmode.org/manual/Dynamic-blocks.html
I for instance use properties when grading student assignments. Under each headline I write the feedback etc, which I'll later send to the student. The headline also have the following properties: :STUDENT:, :STUDENT_ID: and :GRADE:. I put this in the top of my file:
#+COLUMNS: %8STUDENT_ID(id) %50STUDENT(Student) %5GRADE(Grade)
And a block like this just before the grading headlines:
#+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id local :skip-empty-rows t #+END:
Now if I press C-c C-c on this, I might get something like:
#+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id local :skip-empty-rows t | id | Student | Grade | |----------+-------------------+-------| | a16vikha | Hanson, Viktoria | Pass | | a15gabro | Rohrer, Gabriel | Fail | | b15lensm | Smygevik, Lennart | Pass | #+END:
> Can someone explain the difference between the two (CMS and WIKI)
You can think of CMS (Content Management System) as a bag. You can put a lot of things in that bad, Wordpress, Dokuwiki and many others like Joomla, Ghost, .... A wiki is a CMS that's target for some different use than a blog
> I am wanting to know which is best for personal note taking
There's no agreed "best" system, it's a endless debate Android VS Apple kind of thing.
> tell me which I should use, and a possible recommendation.
I'm a very happy org mode user since many years, it works pretty well for me. Notes can be converted in any format I want, todo, calendar and many many things that I've never seen anywhere else. When it comes to use it on mobile, I made this
I had the same problem in org-mode, recently found the solution in the faq on worg:
(setq-default org-catch-invisible-edits 'smart)
(setq org-ctrl-k-protect-subtree t)
(setq org-catch-invisible-edits 'smart)
Now it catches accidental deletion of folded subtrees.
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I would just install plain emacs and do the tutorial. emacs is actually quite GUI friendly out of the box, with menus and hints. You don’t need to know any keyboard shortcuts or config to start using it.
Then start writing in org. Again you don’t need to learn everything to start using it. The basic syntax is here https://orgmode.org/quickstart.html and there’s a link to a guide at the bottom.
For Org mode, the Org mode website lists a few options for donations: https://orgmode.org/contribute.html
For Emacs, this question has been posed several times. For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3xlhei/how_to_support_emacs_development_financially/ Emacs itself has https://www.gnu.org/help/help.html (see bottom) for you.
Hi, nice! And thanks!
I'm also very interested in this functionality and, as a matter of fact, I have been using the one by u/cottasteel since he came up with it. It is really neat.
It has been proposed upstream (https://orgmode.org/list/CAGEgU=j+UJoWwoRKChkVxN5dmwbD4YaNTWdLS6Qgj57osZLRJA@mail.gmail.com/), but hasn't received the warmest of welcomes, due to the reliance on post-command-hook.
I haven't looked closely at your stab at it, but a couple things called my attention.
First, why not go with text properties, as cotasteel? I'm no expert here, but I'd presume that to be faster/cheaper than using org-element API, and considering it also uses post-command-hook that is something to ponder.
(I know what you'll answer: "no need to modify org-do-emphasis-faces". But, in this case, isn't it worth it?)
Second:
> When the cursor enters a fragment, org-appear temporarily disables jit-lock-mode in the current buffer.
That's a bummer... I don't understand why that would be needed, and it feels very wrong. I would not be surprised if it is not long until you find some undesirable side effects of the procedure.
I was just going to post a question similar to your iproblem.
Basically, you can just place an activestamp into your org heading which will show into your agenda.
However, what I was wondering, can we give a context to the activestamp similar to SCHEDULED or DEADLINE that will show up on the agenda something like:
Deadline: TODO task 1
Scheduled: TODO task 3
Do-Date: TODO task 3 (this refers to the date I want to work on)
You could add the :overline property to the various org-level-N faces.
https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-appearance.html
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Face-Attributes.html
Look into setting org-msg-options, and specifically adding the "\n" option. Mine looks like this:
(setq org-msg-options "html-postamble:nil toc:nil author:nil email:nil \\n:t -:t ^:{} H:5 num:0")
You can find all the settings here: https://orgmode.org/manual/Export-Settings.html#Export-Settings
The solution for wrapping is a little more involved. You'll need to change org-msg-enforce-css.
It's not perfect but my setup looks like this (in case it helps you): https://gist.githubusercontent.com/arvindsv/cfb8dffc73c6dfb93ad57d308e375f43/raw/e2ed4d533e2bd5e067d3703d561f3d8799d9f9e7/org-msg.org
This is now my favorite intro paragraph to org:
>Org-mode is a bit hard to explain. Or, perhaps more accurately, it’s very easy to explain (“It’s an Emacs mode for note-taking, outlining and todo management mode, which has somehow grown into an excellent text composition suite, a website publishing system, a literate programming tool, and much more”), but it’s very hard to convey why that apparently random grab-bag of functionality is anything other than a terrible idea, or how powerful org-mode feels once you’re able to use it well.
I just want to mention a couple of things:
- There's LyX, a WYSWYM editor on top of LaTeX.
- Some markups support export to LaTeX, my favorite being Markdown in pandoc followed by org-mode.
LaTeX was mandatory for writing thesis in my department, so I went ahead and took a couple of courses led by a professional typesetter: it was a great journey back to the 1980s, the insides of TeX,... it was interesting, but I hated that stuff. The bad news is that there's a ton of old material from those times when *TeX was just bizarre.
I'm sure there's some modern TeX distribution that's actually user-friendly, kind of like what TikZ is to METAPOST, but I sure won't go look for it, when I can use the export in pandoc or org-mode that I'm slowly learning now.
When in doubt, always check out the manual. Here it states, that it's possible to use org-id module for strong links, using unique ID.
You first have to set org-id-link-to-org-use-id variable to t, then, whenever you capture link to Org header, it will automatically add the unique identifier to it's properties, which will be then used for links instead of the header content.
You might find some CLI alternative for Org, but there is a huge Org ecosystem that already has solutions many of problems you might think of. The before mentioned manual is also excellent source, which you should definitely check out before jumping to conclusions on what is possible and what isn't.
* TODO Check Mail
SCHEDULED: <2019-01-21 Mo 10:00 .+1d>
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1. Create a TODO Task
2. Press C-c C-s
3. Select the date to start (shift and arrow keys)
4. Go behind the Day Symbol (Mo here)
5. Add Time
6. Add Repeating formula
+ . means if you fullfill the task it will count x days from now (no "." means the next time it will pop up in agenda is your scheduled day +x)
+ x is the value (here 1)
+ timesymbol (d - day; w - week; m - month; y - year)
Works also for Deadline (C-c C-d)
Here some Examples
<code>https://orgmode.org/manual/Repeated-tasks.html#Repeated-tasks</code>
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Also add this to your Config file:
(setq org-log-done 'time) ; Log Time If Task is Done
Download it, then either
- put it into a directory that is in the
load-pathvariable - or put it into any directory and add it to
load-pathvia(add-to-list 'load-path "your/path")(do this in the user-config section of your .spacemacs file)
then add (eval-after-load 'ox '(require 'ox-g-brief)) to the user-config section of your .spacemacs file.
Then the backend should appear in the exporter, everything else is dependent on the package and hopefully documented in the file.
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Just as an aside: there is an org mode exporter for letters that is already included and works quite well. See here. (for installation in spacemacs you can skip the "add to load path step" in this case)
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\edit: Fixed a few typos and an oversight in smth I copy/pasted.
Do M-x visible-modeand shows us the screenshot of what you see or simple copy paste the ascii text in your post.
It looks like a font lock issue.
Org escapes it's links. So the best way to insert links in to Org mode is not to copy-paste from browser, but with M-x org-store-link, bound to C-c C-l (see)
I'm not an org-mode user, so I may be wrong.
>I learned that properties only work with ONE value.
In the linked thread, the user was trying to set multiple key-value (var=value) pairs in the same PROPERTY and make them accessible in babel scripts.
In your case, I suggest you to give a look at the org property API, in particular to the functions ending in *-multivalued-property that let you treat a property value as a white space separated list of values.
For math equations, I usually just insert some LaTeX:
https://orgmode.org/manual/LaTeX-fragments.html
It looks like you might be able to do the same
and use the LaTeX mhchecm package. I have not tried this, but it looks beautiful.
ftp://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/mhchem.pdf
With org-clock-in? I don't really understand what you mean and an example would help. Otherwise it seems that you are not using org-mode for that, so I give you this here:
Sounds like org-publish is ideal for this. A cron job could run org-publish every-so-often, just be sure to put #+OPTIONS: todo:t tasks:t at the top of the file so it includes the status of all your TODOs. More info at the docs: https://orgmode.org/manual/Export-settings.html
You can use tildes.
https://orgmode.org/manual/Emphasis-and-monospace.html#Emphasis-and-monospace
> You can make words bold, /italic/, underlined, =verbatim= and ~code~, and, if you must, ‘+strike-through+’. Text in the code and verbatim string is not processed for Org mode specific syntax, it is exported verbatim.
It sounds like you want org-narrow-to-subtree and widen. You use the former to limit (narrow) the current view to the current subtree, and the latter to return to viewing the entire document. The standard key bindings are in the org manual https://orgmode.org/manual/Structure-Editing.html
There’s noweb which may work for your needs https://orgmode.org/manual/Noweb-Reference-Syntax.html
I did something custom https://xenodium.com/emacs-chaining-org-babel-blocks
ps. Nice to hear you’re enjoying the journey. It is indeed fun.
Agree 100%. I didn’t think I’d use org mode beyond my literate config.
I was preparing for AWS cert, and was looking for a solution for notes. Not only I ended up using org, but the awesome org-drill made revision an utter breeze!
Reduce your list of agenda files? 100 is a lot. Emacs has to open the files to read them.
There's a page in the manual specifically about speeding up agenda.
Vanilla org-mode has links. You could easily use Helm to grep through your org directory (helm-projectile-grep automatically greps your project with the thing-at-point) for a particular tag, and insert a file as org-link.
What advantages does org-roam provide?
https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-R.html
Create a snippet for each type of chunk you are likely to use. I have one for plots and one for everything else.
Don't edit chunks directly in org-mode, use C-c ' (org-edit-special) to switch to a mini ESS mode
Test run your code from within ESS mode and make sure it works before you execute the block from within org-mode, or it can hang and be hard to debug
Even when you know your code works and you are ready to run your chunk in org-mode, it helps to have your session open in another window so you can watch your code run
Always open your R session in the same directory as your org file if you want in-line plots
I always run all my chunks in the same session, e.g.
:session *R*so you aren't starting from scratch each timeIf you want your chunk to output a data table, add
:colnames yesIf you want a plot, add
:file 1.svg :results output graphics file, then change the filename for each chunk
What you're looking for is called a dynamic block. See https://orgmode.org/manual/Dynamic-Blocks.html As well, org-ql provides dynamic blocks which, IMHO, are a bit easier to use.
Are you using the advanced functions of ODT export to word docs? The same framework can export to pdf, so you can set up the word template to give you the end product you need, so you can eliminate the word step, or at least output the exact same end product, saving you time in the long run.
I have reported a bug sometime ago which looks very much like what you describe: https://orgmode.org/list/[email protected]/
At the time, Carsten tried, but could not reproduce, so the report eventually fell to the background.
Not long ago, given some off-list discussion, I did try the EMC in the report again with Org mode version 9.4.5 (9.4.5-29-gc43041-elpaplus @ ~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20210426/) and GNU Emacs 27.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2021-03-25. As far as I know, the problem is still standing.
So, presuming it is indeed the same situation, this (and the original report) might provide the information requested by u/github-alphapapa and u/RichieHHam.
If you do think it is the same problem, perhaps you could chime in at the list too, so that this gets some current attention after so long.
I'm confused. I have this:
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/") t) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("org" . "https://orgmode.org/elpa/") t) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("gnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/") t)
What should I change it to?
I don't want to be on the bleeding edge, I want stability.
Not the kind of system you probably mean, but I try to manage the chaos of my gaming habits with Emacs org-mode and steam.el. It allows me to treat each game as a "task" with various states, notes and whatnot. The capabilities of org-mode in this context are far more than Steam or GOG have to offer on their own but still just as much as I need, never more.
That being said, I do not recommend it to somebody who isn't already deep into the Emacs/org-mode ecosystem, though some basic principles still can be applied to other systems. Especially don't hesitate to take notes or "comments" on games for future reference. A game at its core isn't much different from a task at work you may need to return to after a long break and you may want to have some context for such a scenario.
you can use inline source blocks in org-mode like the following:
src_<language>[<header arguments>]{<body>}
Examples:
src_python[:results output]{print("Hello World")} {{{results(=Hello World=)}}}
Hej Hej,
I don't do (video) game design, but I create DnD stories inside of emacs org-mode. There is no "correct way" of using org for this instance... You will have to come up with a concept that works for your use case.
I suggest highly to look at the official org mode page: [https://orgmode.org/] and watching this awesome google talk from the creator of org mode: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM&t=972s]
An other good video is the following: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzA2YODtgK4&t=1576s]
I think after that you should be set, to add some org setting into your init.el (or conf.org) file and start organizing ;)
I don't have a good walkthrough on how to do this, but the pages on Properties in the org manual really seem close to what you want: https://orgmode.org/manual/Property-Syntax.html#Property-Syntax
I know you've already looked at properties but I think if you define what each property is, and its valid values, you're going to be maybe 80% of the way towards your goal. There's also org-columns for easier editing of properties.
I don't think tags are really going to do what you want.
You can impose structure (and potentially inheritance) by using the standard hierarchy of headings.
From the first example on the page I linked above:
* CD collection ** Classic *** Goldberg Variations :PROPERTIES: :Title: Goldberg Variations :Composer: J.S. Bach :Artist: Glenn Gould :Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon :NDisks: 1 :END:
I could definitely see adding in published_year as a property, too.
I'm not sure on the org-sql since I've never used it, but it looks pretty usable and useful.
Not sure if any of this helps, sometimes just seeing someone else write out the problem description can help your brain to come up with some good solutions.
This happens because you have a vertical bar between "TODO" and "DOING". Everything to the right of the first separator is considered a done state. You can read about in the manual here.
Maybe you mean something like:
https://orgmode.org/manual/Adding-hyperlink-types.html
This can let you make a link in an Emacs org mode file to a man page. You can then open that link sometime later and it will open the man page.
Disclaimer: I've not tried this.
I am not a professional in the games industry, but the tool I use to make sense of any complex information is org-mode and I am pretty sure that is what I would use if I somehow ended up working on stories for a game company as well. Just an amazing tool that does everything (for free!). I use it to organize everything in my life at home and at work, including all my hobby game projects.
> Supposed I wanted to create a index for a book I was writing in org-mode, is it possible to automate the creation of a hyperlinked index of terms?
Sure is! Org-mode provides facilities to create an index out of the box - when using org-publish, just add one or more
#+INDEX: [String to include in the index]
under each headline. I'm not sure if it can get more granular than that, though.
Hem, why not export in html or postscript+ps2pdf with org-agenda-write?
The org manual provide also few info for batch export (running Emacs in batch mode at bottom of the page: https://orgmode.org/manual/Exporting-agenda-views.html
This is really impressive. I believe it is referred from Orgtbl-mode and depicted in A.5 Tables in Arbitrary Syntax.
What a big miss-out. I've noted it down and will post it in the future (title is ready, (Almost) Lost Gems). Please do point out if you see important features missing, thanks!
For the specific org file, you can take a look at file-local variables in emacs (see Emacs Info page).
If you want to apply different settings for certain section, it will be more complicated and require some elisp. I think that you can write a custom org-export-filter (see Org manual) where you set the value of org-helm-htlmize-output-type depending on the current entry's property (or any other cryteria).
The last one is easy. Just bind org-html-export-to-html directly: (bind-key "C-c C-e" (lambda () (org-html-export-to-html nil nil nil 'body-only)) org-mode-map).
You might want to do something like "promote" the level-1 heading into a title by explicitly using the Title keyword. Then it would have the effect you want (provided you only had one title in the document, of course) and work well with everything else
Just as an FYI, a quick way to insert the emacs source code block is to make use of easy templates. Just add this to your init file:
(setq org-structure-template-alist (cons '("se" "#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp \n?\n#+END_SRC\n" "<src lang=\"emacs-lisp\">\n?\n</src>") org-structure-template-alist))
And then you can type "<se" and hit TAB, and it will expand into a source block for emacs lisp.
Welcome.
You may want to use separate files for each customer especially if you were to work on the file in front of them say during a meeting when you take notes and/or minutes. If you go this route look into deft which allow to navigate to your various files quickly.
To time stamp your notes you could have a look into org-capture templates and create one to add to a data tree. This will result in your notes being added to structure based on date/time. An advantage of templates is that you can standardise the format of the notes for all your customers which might make it easier if you have to manipulate the notes etc. at a later stage.
When it comes to TODOs you could keep them all in one file or separate files (perhaps keep TODOs for a customer in the same file as their notes file). Either way you can then use org-agenda to view all these TODOs whether in one file or many.
For screenshots you could use org-download as already mentioned. You could use org-capture here again if you wanted to capture parts of a webpage etc.
Happy to help with any of this if not clear or you get stuck.
Officially, Markdown's syntax does not support tables. The Org export manual also states as such.
Sites like Reddit and Github actually use their own flavors of Markdown with additional special syntax for table support.
Hmmm. I'm not sure about files in clipboards to be honest, I don't know how that works...
But org-capture templates let you run arbitrary elisp commands, so if emacs can do it, you can do it :). https://orgmode.org/manual/Template-expansion.html#Template-expansion
I have a basic example of this in my org-chef package, which is similar to what you want to do, I think:
(setq org-capture-templates '(("c" "Cookbook" entry (file "~/org/cookbook.org") "%(org-chef-get-recipe-from-url)" :empty-lines 1)))
The %(org-chef-get-recipe-from-url) literally just calls the org-chef-get-recipe-from-url elisp function, which returns a string that gets stuffed into the org-buffer.
You could do something similar, like if you wanted to give a file path and insert it into a file:
(defun prompt-for-file () (let ((filepath (read-string "file: "))) (with-temp-buffer (insert-file-contents filepath) (buffer-string))))
(setq org-capture-templates '(("z" "FileNoteThingy" entry (file "~/org/cookbook.org") "* MY NOTES\n %(prompt-for-file)")))
That is, if you wanted to literally insert the contents, but you could just as easily turn this into an org-mode link instead.
I don't think anything that I've given is exactly what you want, I've literally never copied a file on my computer / with emacs and I don't know how that even works (would love to know!), but maybe you can build something from this! You don't even have to prompt, you could just grab a URL from the clipboard right away, or whatever, and insert it in the document.
Thanks for mentioning modifiers. I neglected those and had meant to include them.
I reserve Super for my window manager. Avoids conflicts with other things.
Modified arrow keys work on terminals out-of-box today. Was a problem years back. Usually, I'd rather not have things on the arrow keys in general. Org-mode promotion and demotion uses modified arrow keys.
Certain control and control-shift bindings are not distinguishable. For me, the only binding where this is an issue is <code>query-replace-regex</code> on C-M-%, and I use it rarely enough relative to query-replace to just use M-x query-replace-regex. I suppose I could put it under C-c somewhere if that changed.
You can diff two arbitrary blocks using :var, and present the result as a diff using :wrap SRC diff.
#+NAME: before #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE before foobar #+END_EXAMPLE
#+NAME: after #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE after foobar #+END_EXAMPLE
#+BEGIN_SRC sh :results verbatim :exports results :var in=before :var out=after :wrap SRC diff echo "$in" >before echo "$out" >after diff -u before after rm -f before after #+END_SRC
#+RESULTS: #+BEGIN_SRC diff --- before 2018-11-10 11:28:23.305493993 +0100 +++ after 2018-11-10 11:28:23.305493993 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -before +after foobar
#+END_SRC
Using :export results ensures that the diffing code is not exported. Note that this example will fail if you remove the rm call. That's because diff's exit code is non-zero when a difference is found and babel doesn't like that.
hahahaha. The curse of Emacs! We must've been working on solutions to this at the same time. Here's my initial stab. I'm sure mine could be improved as well:
(defun edit-src-block (src fn language) "Replace SRC org-element's value property with the result of FN. FN is a function that operates on org-element's value and returns a string. LANGUAGE is a string referring to one of orb-babel's supported languages. (https://orgmode.org/manual/Languages.html#Languages)" (let ((src-language (org-element-property :language src)) (value (org-element-property :value src))) (when (string= src-language language) (let ((copy (org-element-copy src))) (org-element-put-property copy :value (funcall fn value)) (org-element-set-element src copy)))))
(defun format-elisp-string (string) "Indents elisp buffer string and reformats dangling parens." (with-temp-buffer (let ((inhibit-message t)) (emacs-lisp-mode) (insert (replace-regexp-in-string "[[:space:]]* [[:space:]]*)" ")" string)) (indent-region (point-min) (point-max)) (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max)))))
(defun format-elisp-src-blocks () "Format Elisp src blocks in the current org buffer" (interactive) (save-mark-and-excursion (let ((AST (org-element-parse-buffer))) (org-element-map AST 'src-block (lambda (element) (edit-src-block element #'format-elisp-string "emacs-lisp"))) (delete-region (point-min) (point-max)) (insert (org-element-interpret-data AST)))))
Try the manual: https://orgmode.org/manual/Images-in-LaTeX-export.html
#+ATTR_LATEX: :float wrap :width 0.38\textwidth :placement {r}{0.4\textwidth} [[./img/hst.png]]
Org mode has its own markdown syntax that can do everything you described above, but if you need to export to a markdown file you can do so with the following.
C-c C-e m m (org-md-export-to-markdown)
I used org mode as a referential knowledge base with embedded images and files, text formatting, and even directory links. It's a really powerful tool, but it doesn't use "markdown" because emacs has to be special and have its own markdown. But if you're not opposed to learning a tool I think it would fit your use case.
https://orgmode.org/guide/ This is a pretty good example of what it can do, but if that doesn't sound like your cup of tea I hope you're able to find something!
I've been working on using <code>org-mode</code> in Emacs for "literate programming" for roles. I still have to write the documentation, but I can, for instance, document the defaults and vars and then tangle the documentation into the appropriate source files. My entire role can be described with a single Org file, then output all the necessary source files in the correct directories. Adding automatic tangling on save also means that my documentation and my role will always be in sync. My roles are private right now, but I can see about publishing one.
Consider one of the following options:
- org-crypt https://orgmode.org/manual/org_002dcrypt.html
- Encrypt individual files with GnuPG (gpg)
- Encrypt your Git repository using a filter
- Use a hosting service that provides encrypted Git repositories, e.g. keybase.io
I don't know about canonical, but you can apply actions like adding and removing tags in bulk from the agenda view: https://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-commands.html#index-remote-editing_002c-bulk_002c-from-agenda. For example: Filter by "old_tag", * to select all, B to start bulk action, + to add "new_tag". * and B again, then - to remove "old_tag".
If you're going to do this regularly, you could write a function that replaces old_tag with new_tag and call that with f as a bulk action.
I too am a non programmer struggling to use org-mode. I want to use it for note taking, primarily for history and other personal interests. Properties are one of the things I'm looking at right now.
You can put what ever you want into them. The Org Manual uses all UPPERCASE to indicate built-in properties, and Capitalized for user defined properties. That is probably a good convention to follow.
I don't use the calendar in org-mode, but I like to use column-view to view my data. I strongly recommend using the keys in your workflow to enter data to ensure that you have a properly formed drawer. M-tab to auto-complete doesn't work on most machines because it is normally Alt-tab (switch window), I have to remap that key and a few others (so much to do). Good luck.
You can define targets by having <<my-custom-target>> and refer to them later by using a normal link, [[my-custom-target][it]]. I hope this is close to what you're after. It's important to note that the custom target names should be unique to the document and you are responsible for that.
Here's a page in the documentation which might be of some benefit.
Oh, I forgot. You can jump to target link with C-c C-o and return to where you've been in the text with C-c &. This might be very helpful in your reading process.
I'm working on org-mode library for rust.
I want to parse *.org documents, have API to add, delete and modify existing nodes (for example, sections, TODOS, dates etc).
Then - after the liborg part - I want to create progressive Web Application (codename pOrg) with rust backend (using my library).
I know it's a lot. I have some experience in making parsers and compilers and I think i know what I'm doing, however:
- OrgMode is very like Markdown format - I think it is context free (not sure), but definitely ambiguous. And parser cannot fail! If user forget to close brackets I must parse whole thing as text, not broken link for example. This is one of the reasons why Markdown does not have PEG.
- Thats why I decided to use parser combinators, however I'm not satisfied with Nom or Combine (altough the latter is very good IMO and very close to ideal) - so I decided to use my own based on
impl Trait... - ... and right now I think I found some strange bug in rustc linked to
impl Trait. Cause some unit tests should be deterministic but sometimes fail (pure random). My first impression is sometimes rustc generates invalid code, but I need to investigate it more.
I'm very happy user of orgmode since 10 years, everytime I try something else (for the sake of curiosity), I always come back. It's so addictive that I made myself an app to make it works on mobile as well ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/nuage/wiki/Org-Mode) and wrote a tutorial to help people getting started (https://mickael.kerjean.me/2017/03/20/emacs-tutorial-series-episode-2/)
It seems that your comment contains 1 or more links that are hard to tap for mobile users. I will extend those so they're easier for our sausage fingers to click!
Here is link number 1 - Previous text "yep"
^Please ^PM ^/u/eganwall ^with ^issues ^or ^feedback! ^| ^Delete
"Setting UNNUMBERED property to non-nil disables numbering of a heading. Since subheadings inherit from this property, it affects their numbering, too."
Essentially, it will use * version of the section command for that heading.
If you want something very simple, yet powerful, org-mode is quite nice for writing. After you get past the inital learning curve of emacs (which for your pursuits, isn't really that bad at-all) , it seems to do exactly what you're looking for.
If you have any unanswered questions after perusing the site, feel free to pm me, and/or visit #emacs on the freenode network. :-)
While I am not using org-babel with R I guess following might be as good a start as any:
https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-R.html
At least that's what I assume you are looking for based on your description
For me it is the fact that Emacs apps are all programmed in Emacs Lisp, which is generally a much better language for joining various apps together. The best example for me is how the built-in CLI shell can be used in so many different ways. You not only get copy-paste functionality between your editor and shell, but you can program "expect" -like behavior to trigger events from regular expressions, you can configure key bindings to execute REPL or Shell actions, you can configure key bindings to copy-paste the current line of code you are on into the shell for execution in a REPL and get the result back into your code as a comment -- many programming languages already have Emacs extensions written for them which do this for you already.
Then, there are other apps like Magit which let you execute Git commands with just a single key press, this makes managing your Git branches incredibly fast and easy when you get good at it. And there is Org mode for taking notes -- I have a pretty good notes database now which is easily searched with Grep. Emacs has an excellent Grep interface, it lets you easily navigate through the list of search results.
There have been some changes in recent versions, so the answer to your question depends on which release you are using.
Here is an overview of which defaults are being used in which version and what you can do to tweak the settings to your personal preference.
It's not quite clear what your question is, but maybe look at calfw and calfw-org?
There's also org's Agenda, which has support for handling Scheduled and Deadline-d items.
Maybe not what you want but this Worg page details taking actions within a meeting. It collects all actions from different meetings under a specific heading (but it could be another file maybe an org-agenda file) but the actions are copied and not moved (refiled) . This means the actions remain with the meeting notes in which they are raised. This workflow could be adapted to achieve what you want.
I'm not the best person to help because I haven't done this, but I think you can add states to your TODO.
See This post. The items after the | represent failed or canceled states, I think.
However, have you considered inverting your thinking? I ask because the psychology literature suggests that it's easier to motivate yourself to accomplish positive tasks. So "Don't eat cake today" would be habit.
The way I implement this in my own life is through the Don't Break the Chain method.
I actually have a huge calendar on my wall and it works great. I used a web-app that I wrote myself at one point but that grew tedious. I'm thinking of programming something into org-mode, but I find a physical habit calendar is far more effective.
You should look at org-mode for taking and organize your notes in plain text (and your whole workflow btw). Super-duper versatile, private, syncable, with a lot of export features, usable with CLI/GUI and an amazing list management.
Here is a conf you could watch to make you an idea https://youtu.be/SzA2YODtgK4
have a good one
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("org" . "https://orgmode.org/elpa/") t)
Has been deprecated. All you need is GNU ELPA (active by default) and NonGNU ELPA (active by default from 28 onwards). For older versions you can just replace that line with
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("nongnu" . "https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/"))
You should also probably get used to closing all parentheses on the same line.
subr-x shouldn't have to be loaded by the users. If it does, that is a bug and you should report it.
Instead of defining custom find-* commands, maybe you could use bookmarks or registers.
And a general question is do you really need an init.org, or would a init.el do the same job?
https://orgmode.org/ and https://git-scm.com/.
I have one big org-mode document for tracking all projects/ideas and initial designs (usually as multiple sub-sections on the same idea-section). When an idea becomes an actual project with prototype parts etc I create it as a new git-project (or sometimes in a subdirectory in an existing larger git-project, when that makes sense, for instance all my bgg-design-contest entries are in the same project).
When I work on a project the ideas and design-notes and prototype rules all go into the same org-mode-document, and I use org-export to publish PDF and HTML versions of the rules from that document (it can be configured to only export marked sections, so the rulebook only contains the actual prototype rules and not all my confusing notes that do not belong there). It is a fantastic non-WYSIWYG way of working. (I use org-mode to track everything else I do at work and at home as well, not only game-projects.)
>I get anxious about format lock-in for my notes. I know the .org syntax is widely supported, but it seems (from my reading at least) like emacs is the only place it gets the "first class" treatment.
An org file is plaintext, so there's not lock-in, in the sense of your data will never be lost. It might not be easy to import to another system, but it is always possible. There are built-in exporters to ten other formats. If there's a specific type of thing you'd want to export your notes to, it might be worth looking now to see if there's already an exporter for it.
I took the "full detail" logo currently seen on https://orgmode.org, and then from that progressively deleted and modified parts of it to obtain a sequence of simplified versions. I can't say I'm a graphic artist, but I've got a bit of experience with Inkscape and for simple drawings, I find that works well :) Thanks for the kind words.
Very easy actually, if one uses the diary sexp:
* Event <%%(memq (calendar-day-of-week date) '(1 2 3 4 5))>
Where 1 is Monday.
One possible issue is these dates don't play nicely with Org repeating mechanism i.e. ".+" "++" pushing things into the future stuff. Read more about it in the bottom of Org Info.