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Download the video I use org-link-set-parameters to define a lot of custom links in Org Mode for things like my blog or my Emacs config. Then I can code how I want to complete, open, and export those links. These links don't make sense to other people, of course. I want to be able to quickly copy or replace my custom links with regular...

I want to get better at making sense of things and sharing what I'm learning. Nudged by Chris Maiorana's post on Second Brain, Second Nature, I borrowed How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens (2017). Here are my notes. 2024-10-26-01 How to Take Smart Notes - Sonke Ahrens 2017 #visual-book-notes #writing #pkm #book Text from sketch How to Take Smart Notes - Sönke...

I wanted to follow up on my post on large language models and me from January and do some more thinking/learning out loud. Data I have >= 8000 posts in my blog, almost 4000 sketches (mostly public, many with OCR results), and lots of text notes in my Org Mode files, many of which are in a hierarchy and many of which are just...

UPDATE: I'm moving Emacs News to the info-gnu-emacs mailing list instead of emacs-tangents. If you're subscribed to Emacs News through emacs-tangents, you may want to switch your subscriptions. Emacs News will also continue to be available on the web and through RSS. I'll post to both info-gnu-emacs and emacs-tangents for a little while. Emacs 30.0.92 pretest is available (Reddit, Irreal) Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin...

I was curious about this passage from How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens: [Niklas] Luhmann's only real help was a housekeeper who cooked for him and his children during the week, not that extraordinary considering he had to raise three children on his own after his wife died early. Five warm meals a week of course do not explain the production of...

I want to start building up more thoughts as chunks and relating them more logically instead of just chronologically. I've been using categories to organize my posts into buckets, but within a category, it's still chronological. I also have a large outline that includes posts from 2017 to 2024. I'd like to break it up into smaller topic pages so that they're easier to...

I often want to link to an Org heading from somewhere in my org-refile-targets, which includes my agenda files and other things. I don't want to think about where the heading is, I just want to link to it. I could use C-u C-c C-w (org-refile) to go to the heading, use C-c l (my shortcut for org-store-link), head back with org-mark-ring-goto, and then...

Emacs: scroll-other-window and PDF view in Emacs - 2024-10-20T21:44:48.482Z Updating a text file based on the editing marks I drew on a PDF is much nicer when I can use scroll-other-window to control the pdfview in the other #Emacs window. https://gist.github.com/politza/3f46785742e6e12ba0d1a849f853d0b9 Inserting conference talk info in e-mail thanks to Emacs - 2024-10-17T15:29:36.186Z One of the fun things about doing so much in #Emacs (email,...

I customized my visual book notes - all view to show the thumbnails of the images, and I added You can get to it by going to the visual-book-notes category from a post and then choosing "All". I like the new "View slideshow" and "Shuffle slideshow" buttons I added. Figure 1: Screenshot of my visual book notes gallery I also fixed some of the...

Debian uses Git repository tags to notice when to update packages. I kept forgetting to tag subed's versions, so now I made a git post-commit hook which I think will do the trick. I based it on https://gist.github.com/ajmirsky/1245103, just updated for Python 3 and tweaked to work with how I do versions in subed.el. I've also added it to my README.org. #!/usr/bin/python # place...

2024-10-21-05 Atomic Habits #visual-book-notes #productivity #personal-development Text from sketch Atomic Habits - James Clear (2022) - Notes by Sacha Chua 2024-10-21-05 time vs results: valley of disappointment: (we expect linear progress) Achieving a Goal only changes your life for the moment. In order to improve for good, solve problems at the system level. Fall in love with process rather than product. Not "what do...

Emacs 30: New stuff in Emacs 30 (July 2024) Twitch video on latest Emacs features from master, buffer/file registers, golang ts tests features and more (@pizzatorque@emacs.ch) (video available temporarily) Upcoming events: Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Oct 26 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/...

I enjoyed listening to Podcast #1,029: Treat Your To-Do List Like a River, and Other Mindset Shifts for Making Better Use of Your Time | The Art of Manliness (thanks @ctietze@mastodon.social for the recommendation) and checking out the Autofocus method (main website with translations) for reviewing your TODO list without worrying too much about prioritization. I also had an opportunity to reflect on similar...

Download the video I want to quickly look up and add links. consult-omni lets me search within Emacs instead of switching to a web interface. After I set up consult-omni-google with a Google custom search engine and a JSON API key, I can call it with my shortcut: M-g w. Using M-n for future history pulls in the word at point. Then I can...

2024-10-17-02 How sketchnotes fit into my personal knowledge management #pkm #sketchnoting #drawing Text from sketch worth doing even if you don't feel like you can draw well really, I just draw stick figures good for your own thoughts and other people's own thoughts: non-linear visual metaphors & organizers can be helpful can be a launchpad for more details other people's thoughts: distill key points...

I'm starting to dig into what other people have shared about personal information management and personal knowledge management. Karl Voit is one of my favourite people in this space, and I've enjoyed I thought I'd sketchnote the recording of his talk at Worklab 2023: "The Art of Organizing Yourself and Your Data". Here it is: 2024-10-17-01 The Art of Organizing Yourself and Your Data...

Here is a totally rough list of aspects that I came up with to start thinking about how I do personal information/knowledge management and how I want to explore other people's systems. 2024-10-15-08 Aspects of personal knowledge management #pkm (text from sketch duplicated as headings below) Use: What do you want to use it for, and how? Capture: How do you get stuff in?...

Personal knowledge management thought management - 2024-10-13T21:24:39.185Z I think I don't have a task management or even a knowledge management challenge, I have a thought management challenge. I want to think more thoughts through to a reasonable level of completion (blog post, commit, sketch, even a toot) while still honouring the kiddo's desire for snuggles and playtime. My brain gets cranky about unfinished thoughts...

I use modus-theme-toggle to switch between modus-vivendi-tinted and modus-operandi-tinted depending on whether I want a dark background or a light one. I also customize my org-todo-keyword-faces to visually distinguish TODO, DONE, WAITING, and SOMEDAY. This is how to colour them based on the current Modus theme. (defun my-org-todo-set-keyword-faces () (setq org-todo-keyword-faces `(("TODO" . (:foreground ,(modus-themes-get-color-value 'blue-warmer) :weight bold)) ("DONE" . (:foreground ,(modus-themes-get-color-value 'green-warmer) :weight...

Upcoming events: Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, October 26, 2024 M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Oct 26 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400...

Here's what I've been posting on @sacha@social.sachachua.com: Emacs Emacs equivalent of screenshots.debian.net? 2024-10-09T12:54:35.785Z https://screenshots.debian.net/ is neat. Do we have one of those for #Emacs packages? Could be a long-term project. Planet Emacslife updates 2024-10-08T10:51:48.127Z More tweaks to planet.emacslife.com - I had been incorrectly checking the future-dated posts, whoops. Should work again! Also, I updated my blog feed and my new posts are finally getting...

Download the video I'm tweaking my video workflow. I use Orgzly Revived on my Android phone to write the text, and I use Easy Voice Recorder to record it. Syncthing automatically copies both to my laptop. I use WhisperX to transcribe my recording, and I use a little bit of Emacs Lisp to figure out timestamps for each word. I edit this to fix...

Upcoming events: OrgMeetup (virtual) https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Thu Oct 10 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Oct 11 0000 Asia/Singapore Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Oct 11 1800 Europe/Paris M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin -...

Tech Server upgrade 2024-10-01T19:34:35.535Z Okay, my VPS should now be on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Things I bumped into along the way:- Had to reinstall MySQL for some reason. Fortunately kept all the data, although I did need to recreate directories for logs and sockets.- Reinstalled my Docker images. Fortunately kept all the data on disk, so that was fine. Along the way, upgraded my...