Orgmode

A little on me and Zettelkasten, getting the TW200 out for spring.

Added a little automation to contacts.org with a function that auto-populates a message buffer in mu4e.

I modified a Perl lbdb backend by ‪@[email protected] ‬to use my org-contacts with mutt

I don’t like the looks of any of the personal CRM software out there, so I’m making a plaintext one.

More ChatGPT and org, using the org agenda, Yellowjackets again, Doom keybindings

My historic pattern for descending into Emacs hell has always started with the kitchen-sink init, and the path to recovery has always involved a patient refactoring into multiple files: Some kind of “the basics,” something just for org, something for odd little quality of life things, and a quarantine file where new stuff can enjoy a probation period where I can bisect it first when something goes wrong. If I add a big chunk of functionality from a new mode, that might get its own file, too. ...

Succumbing to org-roam, the pleasures of a straight razor competently wielded, Decline of Western Civilization.

Back to org-mode, a decent C25K Apple Watch app, custom Hugo RSS.

If the iPhone has helped me accomplish one thing, it has probably been to make it easier for me to stay away from Emacs. It works like this: It is not controversial to assert that Emacs is an environment all its own. You can find libraries and packages that allow Emacs to acknowledge and talk to outside environments, so it’s not a closed environment, but it’s different enough that there’s some fiddling involved to get it chatting with the outside world. ...