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org syntax isn't as confined to the emacs world as it used to be. Check out, e.g., https://github.com/orgapp/orgajs, which parses org files into an 'abstract syntax tree', which can then be transformed/picked for info/indexed, etc. etc. by any number of tools. Pandoc's support is also improving as far as I'm aware.
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SaaSHub
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If you’re using neovim, neorg is a pretty cool org mode alternative.
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Since I'm studying a topic for which I already have many notes, I connected my new notes to the existing ones. I'm using Org-Roam.
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So right now I am having to go through tons of reading material. I'm taking an abundance of notes, etc. I'm trying to prep for an exam. I need to read multiple books, and I just started with the first one. I opened PDF-tools and then, using Org-noter I started taking notes. Each note is like an annotation in the book, tied to its specific location. Next time when I go through my notes, I can jump to the specific page in the book. And vice-versa - while re-reading through the book, I can see all related notes, right there in the adjacent window.
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It's a massive book, and I had to stay late, and then, Emacs automatically changed my color theme. That's how I set it up - circadian.el switches to the darker theme at sunset. PDF reader also changed its colors, adapting to my color theme, blending the reader and the editor.
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Then, I decided to look a little bit closer into one of them. I jumped into the project directory using fasd; with a couple keystrokes I created a git-worktree based on the PR; magit has pulled the remote branch and created a local worktree. All I needed was to press a couple of buttons, and it opened the diff between the local branch and origin/main. I am not very familiar with this module though. I opened dired, marked the module's folder, and ran magit-dired-log to see the git log, but only related to the files in that folder. I saw that Bob (my colleague) made some changes six months ago. Using org-capture I created a note in my work journal, tagging Bob. Now I can always find the note by opening Bob's card and browsing through all related notes.
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Also, I sometimes use flashcards, they really help me to remember the material. I am creating flashcards using a package called anki-edior. My flashcards are my notes. I don't need to go somewhere else to search through my flashcards.
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chatgpt-shell
A multi-llm Emacs shell (ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Kagi, Ollama, Perplexity) + editing integrations
For certain concepts that I don't understand fully, I'm using chatgpt-shell. It is beyond fantastic and almost impossible to describe in a single post. This is, for example, just one of my use cases: When I'm writing a comment or a message to my colleague (and of course, yes, I edit just about any text in Emacs), I can select a paragraph and ask chatgpt-shell to improve it. It does, but it also shows me the diff of the changes, that is how I set it up.
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For certain concepts that I don't understand fully, I'm using chatgpt-shell. It is beyond fantastic and almost impossible to describe in a single post. This is, for example, just one of my use cases: When I'm writing a comment or a message to my colleague (and of course, yes, I edit just about any text in Emacs), I can select a paragraph and ask chatgpt-shell to improve it. It does, but it also shows me the diff of the changes, that is how I set it up.
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I am also finding many great videos on YouTube. I found that I learn the material better if I read through the transcripts. I usually pull the subtitles and use them to make more notes.
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Besides all that, I'm also having to take care of my work duties. When I started my day earlier, as per usual, I opened gh-notify buffer to check all GitHub notifications. Issues, Pull-requests. Using code-review I quickly checked a few PRs, scrolled through the diffs, posted a couple of comments, and approved the PRs.
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Besides all that, I'm also having to take care of my work duties. When I started my day earlier, as per usual, I opened gh-notify buffer to check all GitHub notifications. Issues, Pull-requests. Using code-review I quickly checked a few PRs, scrolled through the diffs, posted a couple of comments, and approved the PRs.
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Next, I needed to open a related project, which I didn't have locally. So, finally, I had actually to open my browser. Note that everything I described to this point, all, was done solely in Emacs. But wait, we're not ready to switch just yet. Now, I remembered that I already had to open that repo last week, so I searched through my browser history and found the link to it. , and now I'm in the browser. I searched, and I found the document I needed, and I decided - that still didn't warrant cloning the entire project. "I'm just gonna copy the link and put it in my note...". The inserted link would've been something like https://github.com/booga/wooga/pulls/4110. But not in Emacs, no. Since I'm using Org-mode, I customized org-link-make-description-function. What it lets you do, is to write your custom function, and that's what I did. My function goes to GitHub and pulls the description of the PR #4110. And now my link looks like this: Fixes migration in the Orchestration Module booga/wooga#4110.
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I would *highly* recommend using vim keybindings if you're just getting into it (Doom or just evil). I switched from vim to emacs and tried to rough it with the default keybindings thinking that otherwise I wasn't /really/ using emacs, but I was wrong! I've been using org-mode/emacs for ~2 years now and I've slowly been migrating everything into it as I find useful tools/modes/etc (and now thanks to u/ilemming I have ~12 more to experiment with 😂)
