Writers, what are your favorite underrated packages?

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    One thing that I do wish would get m ore recognition is org-super-links, which is a whole thing that's a bit hard to explain. In one word though: back links. Combined with unique IDs (this one is buried somewhere in the manual, here's a link that kind of explains it) it means links are never broken when you refile headers. So say I'm writing about spaceships, the header will have a property "back links" which will link back to all the other entries I wrote about spaceships, and it will never break. It's not well known because every org-mode user and their mom are all about org-roam these days.. I vented about this enough, to me it's an overkill.

  • visual-fill-column

    Discontinued Emacs mode for wrapping visual-line-mode buffers at fill-column.

  • Great question. Here is a life saver if you write or collaborate with non Emacs users: visual-fill-column. Now please: read the documentation and give it a chance before closing the browser tab. It is not what you think it is, it is not redundant.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • org-fc

    Spaced Repetition System for Emacs org-mode

  • ebib

    A BibTeX database manager for Emacs.

  • ebib.

  • Emacs-langtool

    LanguageTool for Emacs

  • Didn't see it so far: LanguageTool integration in Emacs. It really helps me a lot, as I'm a making lot of language errors. LanguageTool requires Java (standalone app is a Jar file), could start is a bit long, but then it's really easy to use and for me feedback is better integrated in Emacs than for example in LibreOffice.

  • go-org

    Org mode parser with html & pretty printed org rendering. also shitty static site generator.

  • FYI Hugo actually has decent support for Org out of the box. Most things are exported properly (I haven't encountered any that doesn't), including footnotes, tags, code blocks, even property keywords as frontmatter (#+title:, #+date, or anything you want). This support is based on go-org.

    and org-super-links-peek to quickly peek at the content on the other side of a super-link!

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  • writeroom-mode

    Writeroom-mode: distraction-free writing for Emacs.

  • I really enjoy using writeroom-mode for distraction-free writing in Emacs. I have it bound to a key in org-mode, even.

  • olivetti

    Emacs minor mode to automatically balance window margins

  • New to Emacs and to Org, the extension that decided me to learn them both is Olivetti, wich lets you define margins and set a text width (visual, no linebreaks).

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