Subscribe to one of my feeds: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 Emacs History
- Organize Your Life With Org-Mode
- My Emacs Configuration In Org-mode
- A little bit of my personal Emacs + Org-mode history and how my Emacs configuration is structured
- Emacs is not just an Editor: those editor wars are pointless
- Sacha Chua interviewed me on my Emacs stuff
All articles tagged with emacs (sorted by last update, oldest on top):
- Emacs oder vi? Ein Plädoyer für ASCII-Editoren
- Org-mode
- Textbausteine/Snippets als praktisches Helferlein im Alltag
- git: post-commit hook for determining large number of deleted lines in 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
- Managing web bookmarks with Org-mode
- Reference Management with Org-mode
- Emacs: Use Different Search Methods Depending on Number of Lines
- Emacs: Quick Access to Agenda on Android
- Emacs is Not Just An Editor
- Thinking About a notmuch-based Email Setup
- Easy Entering Values for Org-mode Properties
- Fast Opening of Memacs Indexed Files
- Recurring Events with Org-mode
- Evolutional Steps of Computer Systems
- Emacs Config Switch Depending on Hostname or Operating System
- 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
- Writing a GitHub Wiki Using Orgmode Syntax
- org-du: Visualizing Org-mode Heading Sizes
- Org-Mode As a Rabbit Hole: Agenda Tasks Piling Up
- The LaTeX Fetish. Or: Choose Your Tools Wisely
- Using Template Files for Pandoc Exports to Word or LibreOffice
- External Links to Outlook Emails Get Broken When Emails Are Moved
- Organize Your Life With Org-Mode
- Advanced Usage of Dependencies Between Tasks Using Org-mode
- My Personal Emacs History
- Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
- OneNote Will Be Discontinued, Evernote Will Follow Some Day - Switch to Something Much Better
- My Emacs Key Binding Strategy
- Managing Digital Files (e.g., Photographs) in Files and Folders
- 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
- What App am I Using for What and How?