https://orgmode-exocortex.com/ Recent content on Org mode Exocortex Hugo -- gohugo.io en info@charlbotha.com (Charl P. Botha) info@charlbotha.com (Charl P. Botha) ©2022, All Rights Reserved Sat, 24 Sep 2022 22:04:00 +0200 https://orgmode-exocortex.com/2022/09/24/modify-md-roam-for-frontmatter-less-operation/ Sat, 24 Sep 2022 22:04:00 +0200 info@charlbotha.com (Charl P. Botha) Sun, 25 Sep 2022 10:56:46 +0200 https://orgmode-exocortex.com/2022/09/24/modify-md-roam-for-frontmatter-less-operation/ This post is reproduced here with permission from vxlabs.com. Background My notes database consists primarily of Emacs Org mode files, interspersed with a small number of markdown files, some of them from previous note-taking systems (for example, I went through a Gollum stage early in 2014, according to my notes then), and some of them for easier mobile consumption and production. I recently discovered nobiot’s md-roam Emacs package which makes it possible for these markdown files to show up (in sheep’s clothes, as it were) amongst all of my usual org-roam nodes. Charl P. Botha emacs emacs-lisp org-roam 1writer markdown https://orgmode-exocortex.com/2021/07/22/configure-org-roam-v2-to-update-database-only-when-idle/ Thu, 22 Jul 2021 22:31:00 +0200 info@charlbotha.com (Charl P. Botha) Thu, 22 Jul 2021 22:42:14 +0200 https://orgmode-exocortex.com/2021/07/22/configure-org-roam-v2-to-update-database-only-when-idle/ org-roam v2, which was recently released, removed the update database on idle functionality (which I coincidentally contributed) as part of its simplification. I agree with this removal, as I think it makes the most sense to keep the org-roam core as simple as possible. That being said, being able to have the org-roam database update only when Emacs is idle can be helpful for some folks, like me, who C-x C-s quite often and notice a few hundred millisecond blocking delay on files of a thousand or more lines. Charl P. Botha org-roam idle howto https://orgmode-exocortex.com/2021/06/22/upgrade-to-org-roam-v2-with-use-package-and-quelpa/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:13:00 +0200 info@charlbotha.com (Charl P. Botha) Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:29:09 +0200 https://orgmode-exocortex.com/2021/06/22/upgrade-to-org-roam-v2-with-use-package-and-quelpa/ org-roam has become a core part of my personal knowledge management system (and I should probably also update that 2019 post to reflect this). Behind the scenes, Jethro Kuan (creator and maintainer of org-roam) and collaborators have been hard at work on v2. The most important functional difference is that any org heading (section) can now also function as a “node”, or zettel, just like a standalone org-file. Jethro Kuan was planning to release the v2 rewrite by the end of June, so this might soon become the default. Charl P. Botha org-roam quelpa use-package howto https://orgmode-exocortex.com/2020/05/13/linking-to-zotero-items-and-collections-from-org-mode/ Wed, 13 May 2020 22:26:00 +0200 info@charlbotha.com (Charl P. Botha) Wed, 13 May 2020 22:30:33 +0200 https://orgmode-exocortex.com/2020/05/13/linking-to-zotero-items-and-collections-from-org-mode/ I’ve been using Zotero since somewhere in 2011 as my main reference manager. Just to get you up to speed, a reference manager is a tool with which you can keep track of often academic references. My Zotero is filled with the bibliographic information and fulltext PDFs of hundreds of references. When I have to cite any references in something I’m writing, I export the relevant collection from Zotero, often as a bibtex file, and then cite away either in LaTeX or Org mode. Charl P. Botha zotero org-mode howto https://orgmode-exocortex.com/2020/04/30/voice-capture-org-mode-notes-and-more-using-siri-shortcuts-on-ios/ Thu, 30 Apr 2020 23:56:00 +0200 info@charlbotha.com (Charl P. Botha) Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:11:12 +0200 https://orgmode-exocortex.com/2020/04/30/voice-capture-org-mode-notes-and-more-using-siri-shortcuts-on-ios/ Introduction Inspired by Stéfan’s post explaining how to voice capture TODOs using Google Assistant on Android, I decided to find out how one would go about hooking up Siri dictation on iOS to Org mode. It turns out that Siri Shortcuts is a pretty amazing tool that can be used for all kinds of automation on your iPhone or iPad. Furthermore, because Org mode is text files all the way down, you can use Siri Shortcuts to append to any of the said files via Dropbox or iCloud. Charl P. Botha babel https://orgmode-exocortex.com/2020/04/28/voice-capture-org-mode-tasks-on-android/ Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 info@charlbotha.com (Charl P. Botha) Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://orgmode-exocortex.com/2020/04/28/voice-capture-org-mode-tasks-on-android/ This post originally appeared on Dr Stéfan van der Walt’s personal blog. It is reproduced here with his kind permission. I often want to capture tasks on the go—in a hurry. When there’s no time to fire up organice or http://www.orgzly.com/, being able to transcribe tasks comes in really handy. In this post, I show how, on Android phones, you can hook up Google’s Assistant with org-mode, so that you can speak notes and have them appear as TODO items in a buffer. Stéfan van der Walt org-mode productivity https://orgmode-exocortex.com/2020/04/27/cite-consistently-between-org-ref-and-ox-hugo/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:29:00 +0200 info@charlbotha.com (Charl P. Botha) Wed, 29 Apr 2020 21:15:55 +0200 https://orgmode-exocortex.com/2020/04/27/cite-consistently-between-org-ref-and-ox-hugo/ This post originally appeared on vxlabs.com, my more broadly-themed tech blog. It is reproduced here with permission. Introduction I have written before explaining how you can use org-ref to insert citations into your org mode documents, and then have them export perfectly into PDF documents via LaTeX. On my quest for personal knowledge management nirvana where my org mode files serve as the single universal source of truth, from which I can generate any other document and publication formats that might be required, I ran into the problem of org-ref citations on the one hand, and ox-hugo’s use of pandoc-style citations on the other. Charl P. Botha latex pandoc ox-hugo orgmode org-ref hugo