emacs

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 Org-mode files in order to do advanced PIM: lazyblorg, Memacs, muttfilter.py, org-contacts2vcard, extract_pdf_annotations_to_orgmode, and much 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:
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

All articles tagged with emacs (sorted by last update, oldest on top):

2007-10-31T11:32 Emacs oder vi? Ein Plädoyer für ASCII-Editoren
2011-06-12T13:39 Org-mode
2014-12-03T19:27 Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua
2015-02-01T13:37 Per-contact FROM-email Addresses for Users Of mutt and org-contacts.el
2015-05-25T14:08 Implementing Proper English Title Capitalization With Emacs Elisp
2014-08-10T17:13 UOMF: Managing web bookmarks with Org Mode
2016-04-09T13:10 Emacs: Use Different Search Methods Depending on Number of Lines
2016-04-16T20:21 UOMF: Quick Access to My Org Mode Agenda on Android
2016-08-06T11:45 Thinking About a notmuch-based Email Setup
2017-01-01T21:31 Fast Opening of Memacs Indexed Files
2017-01-15T12:58 UOMF: Recurring Events with Org Mode
2017-02-11T18:36 Emacs Config Switch Depending on Hostname or Operating System
2016-12-23T17:18 UOMF: Getting Emails into Org Mode
2017-03-21T18:26 A CEO's Guide to Emacs
2017-04-23T12:39 Synchronize a Todo List Via a Cloud-Based App
2017-04-18T20:30 GLT17: Ich halte einen Emacs Einsteiger Workshop und rede über Privacy
2017-05-21T09:12 Kotlin as a Very Beautiful Language and an Alternative to Java/Android
2017-06-03T11:23 My Emacs Configuration In Org-mode
2017-06-04T18:15 UOMF: Writing a GitHub Wiki Using Org Mode Syntax
2017-03-27T10:06 org-du: Visualizing Org-mode Heading Sizes
2017-08-12T15:26 UOMF: Org Mode As a Rabbit Hole: Agenda Tasks Piling Up
2017-08-26T19:53 The LaTeX Fetish. Or: Choose Your Tools Wisely
2017-12-17T17:24 UOMF: Using Template Files for Pandoc Exports to Word or LibreOffice
2018-01-24T14:21 External Links to Outlook Emails Get Broken When Emails Are Moved
2018-01-26T18:48 Organize Your Life With Org-Mode
2016-12-18T11:25 UOMF: Advanced Usage of Dependencies Between Tasks Using Org Mode
2017-06-03T12:23 My Personal Emacs History
2018-04-21T10:13 OneNote Will Be Discontinued, Evernote Will Follow Some Day - Switch to Something Much Better
2018-07-08T20:00 UOMF: My Emacs Key Binding Strategy
2018-12-08T11:46 A Screencast Video About Advanced Featurs of Emacs Org Mode
2018-12-28T16:29 My Emacs Org Mode Demo on 35C3
2018-12-28T09:19 The Perfect Tool to Organize Your Digital Life (Emacs Org mode)
2019-01-20T10:23 Questions by New Users That Seem to Be Stupid or Annoying
2019-09-25T11:09 Blog Series: Using Org Mode Features (UOMF)
2019-09-25T16:12 UOMF: Using Org Mode Categories Versus Tags
2019-10-09T15:45 Memacs: Major Update of the Filenametimestamp Module
2019-10-12T00:34 UOMF: Presentation Slides Via Reveal and PDF Handout
2019-10-26T14:29 All Things Org Mode: PIM, Scientific Writing, Presentation, Programming
2019-11-03T18:25 UOMF: On How to Define Projects in Org Mode
2016-12-23T18:01 UOMF: Easy Entering Values for Org Mode Properties
2014-08-20T18:34 git: post-commit hook for determining large number of deleted lines in Org-mode
2020-01-13T17:07 Thunderbird Can Not Share a Maildir With Notmuch
2020-01-20T19:20 UOMF: How to Start With Emacs Org Mode
2015-10-23T15:09 Emacs is Not Just An Editor
2020-02-12T18:28 Searching and Typing Unicode Characters - Like Emojis - System-Wide Via Emacs
2020-05-03T16:50 UOMF: My Current Org Mode Files and Heading Structure
2019-11-16T17:22 UOMF: Linking Headings
2017-02-10T22:22 Evolutional Steps of Computer Systems
2020-10-01T21:28 Migrating Org Mode Files from org-depend to org-edna
2014-05-10T18:14 Managing Digital Files (e.g., Photographs) in Files and Folders
2020-12-09T21:13 UOMF: Linking to Text Within PDF Files
2021-03-06T18:28 UOMF: My Current Life-Cycle of an Org Mode Task
2021-04-10T17:00 GLT21: Emacs Org mode Features You May Not Know
2015-12-26T12:55 UOMF: Reference Management with Org Mode
2021-07-23T13:48 The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy
2014-05-15T10:06 Textbausteine/Snippets als praktisches Helferlein im Alltag
2021-08-30T19:25 UOMF: The Right Way to Use Org Mode
2020-07-22T20:38 UOMF: Linking Headings With org-super-links (Poor-Man's Zettelkasten)
2020-06-14T23:18 Zettelkasten/Org-roam/Org-brain Is Crap
2020-01-01T22:42 UOMF: Logging With Emacs Org Mode
2021-01-23T14:52 UOMF: Easy Dependency Creation With org-linker-edna
2020-08-14T18:56 A Draft Workflow for Advanced Project Management Using Org Mode and Org Edna
2014-08-09T15:31 What App am I Using for What and How?
2021-11-27T16:56 Orgdown - a New Lightweight Markup Standard for Text Documents
2017-09-23T09:14 Org Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
2021-12-02T00:30 Orgdown - the Interesting Feedback Phase so Far