Emacs is the real experience in digital gardening. You tend to it for years, decades, as it grows with you to be your own, one-of-a-kind computing environment where you feel comfortable, efficient, and in peace.
It's not as perfect as the commercial flower installations. But they come and go, and your garden endures. As new plants come into fashion, you can get them for your garden too. As they go out of fashion, you can still keep them if you want.
And yes, you can also blog with it too.
(Source: TeMPOraL on Mastodon)
GNU Emacs is the most important tool of my digital life. With its extension org-mode, I organize everything: todos, calendar, reminders, contact management, knowledge base, hardware inventory, brain-storming and ideas, lecture notes, presentations, spreadsheets, blogging, recipes, and archive.
Please notice that I also use vim on a daily basis, whenever I only need an advanced text editor. But Emacs is so much more than an editor. It is even an advanced step in the evolution of computer systems from my point of view.
I programmed a lot of tools that generate or parse Orgdown files in order to do advanced PIM: lazyblorg, Memacs, appendorgheading, org-du, orgformat (Python library), jira2org-story, orgmode-balance, muttfilter.py, org-contacts2vcard, extract_pdf_annotations_to_orgmode, and more.
If you are looking for a introduction screencast video, take for example this one. If you do not get the beautiful concept behind the default keyboard shortcuts (key bindings), read this article.
Article selection:
- Motivation to use Emacs:
- Evolutional Steps of Computer Systems
- A CEO's Guide to Emacs
- Emacs oder vi? Ein Plädoyer für ASCII-Editoren
- Organize Your Life With Org-Mode
- Emacs is not just an Editor: those editor wars are pointless
- Emacs podcast episodes with me:
- My UOMF article series on how I'm using Emacs Org mode
- My recommended way of starting to use Org mode
- The right way to use Org Mode
- My Emacs History
- My Emacs
Configuration In Org-mode
- A little bit of my personal Emacs + Org-mode history and how my Emacs configuration is structured
- Sacha Chua interviewed me on my Emacs stuff (2014)
All articles tagged with emacs (sorted by last update, oldest on top):
- Emacs oder vi? Ein Plädoyer für ASCII-Editoren
- Org-mode
- Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua
- Per-contact FROM-email Addresses for Users Of mutt and org-contacts.el
- Implementing Proper English Title Capitalization With Emacs Elisp
- UOMF: Managing web bookmarks with Org Mode
- Emacs: Use Different Search Methods Depending on Number of Lines
- UOMF: Quick Access to My Org Mode Agenda on Android
- Thinking About a notmuch-based Email Setup
- Fast Opening of Memacs Indexed Files
- UOMF: Recurring Events with Org Mode
- Emacs Config Switch Depending on Hostname or Operating System
- UOMF: Getting Emails into Org Mode
- A CEO's Guide to Emacs
- Synchronize a Todo List Via a Cloud-Based App
- GLT17: Ich halte einen Emacs Einsteiger Workshop und rede über Privacy
- Kotlin as a Very Beautiful Language and an Alternative to Java/Android
- My Emacs Configuration In Org-mode
- UOMF: Writing a GitHub Wiki Using Org Mode Syntax
- org-du: Visualizing Org-mode Heading Sizes
- UOMF: Org Mode As a Rabbit Hole: Agenda Tasks Piling Up
- The LaTeX Fetish. Or: Choose Your Tools Wisely
- UOMF: Using Template Files for Pandoc Exports to Word or LibreOffice
- Organize Your Life With Org-Mode
- UOMF: Advanced Usage of Dependencies Between Tasks Using Org Mode
- My Personal Emacs History
- OneNote Will Be Discontinued, Evernote Will Follow Some Day - Switch to Something Much Better
- UOMF: My Emacs Key Binding Strategy
- A Screencast Video About Advanced Featurs of Emacs Org Mode
- My Emacs Org Mode Demo on 35C3
- The Perfect Tool to Organize Your Digital Life (Emacs Org mode)
- Questions by New Users That Seem to Be Stupid or Annoying
- Blog Series: Using Org Mode Features (UOMF)
- UOMF: Using Org Mode Categories Versus Tags
- Memacs: Major Update of the Filenametimestamp Module
- UOMF: Presentation Slides Via Reveal and PDF Handout
- All Things Org Mode: PIM, Scientific Writing, Presentation, Programming
- UOMF: On How to Define Projects in Org Mode
- UOMF: Easy Entering Values for Org Mode Properties
- Thunderbird Can Not Share a Maildir With Notmuch
- UOMF: How to Start With Emacs Org Mode
- Emacs is Not Just An Editor
- Searching and Typing Unicode Characters - Like Emojis - System-Wide Via Emacs
- UOMF: My Current Org Mode Files and Heading Structure
- UOMF: Linking Headings
- Evolutional Steps of Computer Systems
- Migrating Org Mode Files from org-depend to org-edna
- Managing Digital Files (e.g., Photographs) in Files and Folders
- UOMF: Linking to Text Within PDF Files
- UOMF: My Current Life-Cycle of an Org Mode Task
- GLT21: Emacs Org mode Features You May Not Know
- The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy
- Textbausteine/Snippets als praktisches Helferlein im Alltag
- UOMF: The Right Way to Use Org Mode
- UOMF: Logging With Emacs Org Mode
- A Draft Workflow for Advanced Project Management Using Org Mode and Org Edna
- Orgdown - a New Lightweight Markup Standard for Text Documents
- Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
- Orgdown - the Interesting Feedback Phase so Far
- UOMF: Semi-Automate Boring Tasks: Replacing Twitter-Snippets
- UOMF: My Current Mobile Capture Process
- UOMF: Path-Independent Links to Local Files Via Locate
- External Links to Outlook Emails Get Broken When Emails Are Moved
- My Org-mode Session at the BarCamp 22 in Graz
- UOMF: Reference Management with Org Mode
- Zettelkasten/Org-roam/Org-brain Is Crap
- UOMF: Easy Dependency Creation With org-linker-edna
- UOMF: How I'm Working With Tasks and My Agenda
- Der Einstieg in GNU Emacs und Org-mode
- git: post-commit hook for determining large number of deleted lines in Org-mode
- What App am I Using for What and How?
- UOMF: Linking Headings With org-super-links (Poor-Man's Zettelkasten)
- Logseq from an Org-mode Point of View