Why and How I use Org Mode for my writing and more

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  • org-roam

    Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode

  • Thanks! I'll try reading their manual (or follow some tutorial). For now, I'll be using Org-roam[0], seems to be much simpler [route] to add and find notes and it even comes with first class support for Doom (see "Using Doom Emacs" section)!

    - [0]: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam

  • obsidian.nvim

    Obsidian 🤝 Neovim

  • You should give https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim a try if you aren't currently. It isn't perfect, but I enjoy writing my notes in neovim more than the Obsidian app, so this works quite nicely.

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  • org-ql

    A searching tool for Org-mode, including custom query languages, commands, saved searches and agenda-like views, etc.

  • Fuzzy searching with things like orderless/consult/grep covers a lot.

    For more semantic searching I use https://github.com/alphapapa/org-ql

    For my very large org-roam I'm investigating taking advantage of search in sqlite more.

  • org-inline-clocking-buttons

    Clock In/Clock Out buttons per org heading to simplify clocking in whether on a phone or a desktop.

  • > but that is unfortunate IMHO because your first criticism is very valid: there are no good Org tools for phones.

    Speaking from an android perspective:

    Best is organice (but requires local android webdav server if you don't want to connect to github) for most people design-wise I think.

    Others will prefer orgzly.

    > This is fine if you live in Emacs and only in Emacs, but if you don't and you'd like to read and modify your files on the go, simply going with the format that for better or worse the rest of the internet has standardized upon, is the much better option.

    emacs is available on fdroid now and using a bluetooth keyboard it's a good experience. I hope to improve the touch experience, for instance I recently released a library to make clocking in/out on mobile or just by mouse easier:

    https://github.com/ParetoOptimalDev/org-inline-clocking-butt...

    I intend to try and make org-mode usable by touch in emacs on android eventually, but it'll be slow and according to things I really need as I need them.

  • > but that is unfortunate IMHO because your first criticism is very valid: there are no good Org tools for phones.

    Speaking from an android perspective:

    Best is organice (but requires local android webdav server if you don't want to connect to github) for most people design-wise I think.

    Others will prefer orgzly.

    > This is fine if you live in Emacs and only in Emacs, but if you don't and you'd like to read and modify your files on the go, simply going with the format that for better or worse the rest of the internet has standardized upon, is the much better option.

    emacs is available on fdroid now and using a bluetooth keyboard it's a good experience. I hope to improve the touch experience, for instance I recently released a library to make clocking in/out on mobile or just by mouse easier:

    https://github.com/ParetoOptimalDev/org-inline-clocking-butt...

    I intend to try and make org-mode usable by touch in emacs on android eventually, but it'll be slow and according to things I really need as I need them.

  • doomemacs

    An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker

  • book

    Crypto 101, the introductory book on cryptography. (by crypto101)

  • Sure! I didn't blog about it, but it is in the issue tracker of e.g. https://github.com/crypto101/book.

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