New blog post "Creating weekly diary-style timestamps in Org Mode" https://davemq.github.io/2026/01/06/org-diary-every-monday.html
#WritersCoffeeClub Jan. 4 - Share a tool of your trade.
#Emacs #OrgMode on the digital side. This is where all my drafts start out unless they are short and simple/already complete, or have special formatting needs requiring a word processor. I manage versions with #git, which Emacs greatly simplifies with the #Magit package, and once I'm ready to share or submit I export the .org file to .odt, and then to .docx, and edit with #LibreOffice Writer from there. Basically Org Mode meets the drafting and structuring needs Scrivener used to on Windows and Mac.
On the analogue side I like to carry around little one-sheet notebooks made from used printer paper. I simply tuck them inside an old passport bag that's my daily carry and write drafts or take notes on the go before I transcribe them into the appropriate Org Mode file. WikiHow has a nice article on how to make these mini notebooks, and you can skip the stapling step if you use them as discardable temporary notes like I do. https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Paper-Book
New blog post "Creating weekly diary-style timestamps in Org Mode" https://davemq.github.io/2026/01/06/org-diary-every-monday.html
I create my teaching materials as #OER with #EmacsReveal [1]. For my course on IT Systems [2] in summer term 2025, I switched to #Kokoro [3] as #TextToSpeech model, and students generally liked the quality (see README of emacs-reveal for evaluation results). Teaching resources are video-like, interactive HTML presentations with audio, generated from #OrgMode text files using GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
This holiday season, I found the time to release #EmacsReveal 9.54.0, which includes the settings I used for IT Systems. I also updated the #TTS Howto [4] to use Kokoro.
Feel free to reuse my course materials and emacs-reveal! All the best for 2026!
[1] https://gitlab.com/oer/emacs-reveal/
[2] https://oer.gitlab.io/oer-courses/it-systems/
[3] https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro
[4] https://oer.gitlab.io/emacs-reveal-howto/tts-howto.html
#Emacs #Org #RevealJS #CICD #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Education
#WritersCoffeeClub Jan. 4 - Share a tool of your trade.
#Emacs #OrgMode on the digital side. This is where all my drafts start out unless they are short and simple/already complete, or have special formatting needs requiring a word processor. I manage versions with #git, which Emacs greatly simplifies with the #Magit package, and once I'm ready to share or submit I export the .org file to .odt, and then to .docx, and edit with #LibreOffice Writer from there. Basically Org Mode meets the drafting and structuring needs Scrivener used to on Windows and Mac.
On the analogue side I like to carry around little one-sheet notebooks made from used printer paper. I simply tuck them inside an old passport bag that's my daily carry and write drafts or take notes on the go before I transcribe them into the appropriate Org Mode file. WikiHow has a nice article on how to make these mini notebooks, and you can skip the stapling step if you use them as discardable temporary notes like I do. https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Paper-Book
@mstempl @szpon A related idea is using variable pitch serif fonts for plain text and fixed pitch for regions. This gives really nice looking org files:
- https://ogbe.net/blog/toggle-serif
I've used that only adding org-table and org-block to the serif-preserve-default-list so that orgmode's code blocks and tables align as expected.
