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Org mode was one of the main reasons I tried Emacs (and left behind 15 years of Vim), and now it is a central part of how I organize my work. Org mode can help you take notes, track tasks, build agendas, process tabular data, and more. It's so flexible that everyone uses it differently. I use Org mode primarily to capture tasks and keep track of their progress. I sometimes take notes in Org mode, but I haven't completely fleshed out my note-taking and searching workflow, so I'll talk mostly about task ma...
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As I came to track more and more items using Org mode, I realized that I needed to have a way of raising up items or filtering down to the things I should be concentrating on. I needed prioritization. My first known use of this feature dates to 4 Jan 2023. Usage Settings Key Bindings Learned Next Steps Usage Priority cookies are just a bit of extra text that goes between the TODO or other tag at the beginning of a headline, and the text of the headline. They are placed between square brackets, and are prefaced with a # character. It gets formatted like so: ** TODO [#B] look over 13398 and 6253 These priority cookies can, of course, be manually typed, but there are also keybindings that allow you to set them. The ones I usually use are S-UP (to raise the prio...
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In this post I'll share my workflow and the Emacs functions I use to facilitate my workflow. One highlight is better understanding how to use org-capture\'s (file+function "filename" function-finding-location) target element. Context One of my administrative tasks for my role at Software Services by Scientist.com is time tracking. (Sidenote: It's been over a decade since I last tracked my working hours.) In my role I'm both coding and helping get team members unstuck on their tasks. This means on a given day, I jump between 5 to 7 projects. (Sidenote: I find it invigorating helping get folks unstuck; either listening to their approach or digging in and pulling out a myriad of debugging and triage heuristics I've developed.) To help me with keeping track of a...
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[AI summary] The post contains a satirical comment about knife attacks and includes a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche on madness in individuals versus groups.
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