I just had a nice Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua about PIM, Emacs, Org-mode and how I manage my digital stuff with it.
There is also a nice summary of the Emacs Chat by @jr0cket and the full transcript of the Emacs Chat.
In case you watched the chat, you might be interested in my notes I wrote upfront. There are many links which provide you more information on the topics.
Please comment below if something is missing to you.
- My History of Editors
- 90s:
- Qedit (Wikipedia, 1994 article of PC Update)
- Ro-Text (from a small German company)
- XEmacs
- 00s:
- XEmacs -> gvim
- since 2011 GLT11: GNU/Emacs +
Org-mode
- Thanks Eraldo!
- gvim only for emails (mutt), usenet (slrn), and small things that require no "mode"
- 90s:
- My Big Motivations
- Curiosity
- Laziness
- Optimizations
- Personal Information Management (PIM)
- using tools
- hardware history
- Filofax (good old paper)
- Handspring Visor (PalmOS)
- Palm T3
- Sharp Zaurus (Linux-based)
- Palm T3 (again after dropping Zaurus)
- Android + Tasker + Memacs
- Org-mode + Memacs
- Hipster PDA (good old paper; always in my pocket)
- software
- hardware history
- testing methods
- GTD
- Pomodoro
- reading great books like
- Mark Hurst: Bit Literacy
- see also the long list of references in my PhD
- much more
- I'd like to conduct workshops, give talks, teach, …
- Where
- Open-Source community here in Graz
- Universities
- Companies
- wherever there are curious people :-)
- Topics
- org-mode-workshop
- LaTeX
(introduction, advanced topics, template, …)
- http://latex.tugraz.at/ (German)
- Shell (zsh, bash) and command line tools (GNU screen, gvim, …)
- PIM (efficient workflows, todos, email, file-management, …)
- Security/Privacy (GnuPG, cloud-awareness, NSA/Snowden, …)
- Git
- so much more
- Where
- Research
- my PhD which I am very proud of!
- some other papers about security, Memacs, and so forth
- using tools
- Python/Org stuff on github:
- dot-emacs
- my current GNU/Emacs configuration for Debian GNU/Linux and Windows 7
- a reasonable up-to-date GNU/Emacs on my old OS X 10.5 doesn't work any more
- extractpdfannotationstoorgmode
- very handy (and basic) extraction of PDF annotations
- I annotate scientific papers on Android using RepliGo reader (unfortunately discontinued), sync them via Dropbox and extract the annotations directly to my reference management (Org-mode of course)
- org-contacts2vcard
- my very own Org to VCard export with some additional foo like privacy filters, alarms, …
- Google Calendar stopped accepting those files without reasonable
error message though :-(
- did not invest time to fix it yet - I want to stay independend of any cloud service
- muttfilter.py
- generating procmail filter rules from my Org-contacts information
- no email from org-contact gets filtered out by my spam filter
- my mutt alias list is extended with org-contact entries
- I generate my from-addresses according to the recipient
- e.g., when I write an email to company "foobar", I use foobar@MYDOMAIN as from-address
- lazyblorg
- my shiny new very near perfect blogging system with minimal effort for lazy people like me
- Org-mode -> lazyblorg (Python) -> public voit (my blog)
- you are currently reading the output of lazyblorg :-)
- English (and German) blog posts about cool topics I am interested in
- lazyblorg implementation is still work in progress!
- expect some progress end of 2014
- features in progress and planned features
- dot-emacs
- non Org-mode related: How I manage my files
- Memacs
- Paper on arXiv.org
- my current Memacs index contains:
- Files
- Photographs
- Bank statements
- Android
- sleeping hours
- working hours
- reminders
- charge times
- misc places
- text messages
- phone calls
- Usenet postings
- Tweets
- Emails
- all Web
pages (from GNU/Linux, Windows, OS X)
- including their content using Shelve on Firefox
- Git and svn commits
- Bookmarks (via Org-mode capture template)
For even more information on how I organize my digital life, please take a look at my blog. You might want to start with my tags pim or emacs to find entries like my personal hard- and software setup, tools that I use, other peoples setup, and so forth.