Orgmode

Secrets of the ancients.

More writing about a camera I both covet and find unfathomable. All in on Denote. Keycast for influencing and debugging. Succession ended with integrity.

Cleaning up results in literate config files. Portland and the JOHS. Some Doom discontent.

org-mode evolution, fixing mu4e/Doom’s busted leader key, Guardians Vol. 3, not taking pictures lately

Automation vs. Augmentation, ChatGPT and ideology, day one of the Things/org experiment.

BBEdit turns 30, Emacs update, Things, OmniFocus, etc.

A Ruby/CLI-based plaintext PRM, Robert DeNiro on exporting org-mode to JSON, blogging with ox-hugo, that Royal Enfield Himalayan

A Mackup/Dropbox glitch, integrating org-contacts and Things, conversations not interviews.

Looking up email histories and past Google Calendar events from org-contacts, and a few ideas about how to schedule time with people.

I started down the path of building some sort of PRM in org-mode because I couldn’t find anything that worked the way I wanted. I did briefly look at Apple’s Contacts app, and also at Cardhop, which builds on top of your Contacts database but still makes some assumptions about how good you are at all at remembering to reach out to people. I also looked at Monica, an open source PRM. The promising part of Monica is its API. The web UI itself shows comprehensive data for each contact, but does not do anything in the way of bulk editing and has no automation at all. It’s laborious to bootstrap. ...