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+NOTE Intro
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+Hello everyone, I'm Jeremy Friesen, pronouns he/him,
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+and today I'll be talking about
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+how Emacs turbocharges my writing.
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+Quick intro: I've been programming since 1998
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+and blogging since 2011.
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+In May of 2020 I switched to Emacs,
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+having previously used a long list of different editors.
+
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+Curious about how Emacs impacted my writing,
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+I wrote some stuff on my personal site and
+
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+found that I blogged about 95 words per day prior to Emacs,
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+and with Emacs I'm blogging about 340.
+
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+Now, this is not a fair comparison, many things changed.
+
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+A pandemic removed 2 hours of commute every day
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+as a big contributor.
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+Ultimately though, I've used Emacs and extended it
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+to reduce barriers to capturing and writing and thinking,
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+and I'm always on the lookout for minor refinements
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+that help me stay in my thinking.
+
+NOTE How I got here
+
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+How I got here was I started in WordPress,
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+then I moved to Jekyll, and then to Hugo,
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+and through that process I started writing in Markdown.
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+And when I was learning Emacs,
+
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+I also didn't want to learn Org Mode,
+
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+it felt intimidating because it could do so many things.
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+I later learned Org Mode grows with you,
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+and that's where I'm at now.
+
+NOTE Friction
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+But I didn't realize that friction
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+between writing Markdown for my public blog
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+and then adopting Org Mode locally
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+for writing and time tracking and things like that.
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+And also, where did I put things,
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+because migrating the formats was just a little clunky.
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+So ultimately I spent some time thinking about the data flow
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+and where I would put things,
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+this kind of pre-thinking,
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+where does stuff go when it comes into and out of my brain.
+
+NOTE Domains for notes
+
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+So I have many domains where I'll write towards.
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+The ones for this presentation are going to be
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+blog posts, epigraphs, glossary, and melange.
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+Melange is, I don't know where it goes,
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+but now I do, I just throw it in melange.
+
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+So I began exploring Org Mode via Org Roam,
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+but I've ultimately switched from Org Roam
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+to the simplified Denote package.
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+I didn't use a lot of the functionality
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+and I appreciate the plain text reality of Denote.
+
+NOTE Demo
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+So let's hop into the demo.
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+I'm going to split my screen.
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+Over on the right is going to be
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+where I'm going to be live typing stuff.
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+So let's get going.
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+You'll notice I don't do a lot of screen splitting.
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+It just makes it easier to focus.
+
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+So let's create a note.
+
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+All right, I have bound hyper to my command key,
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+my right command key.
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+This opens up a whole world.
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+I'm going to create a blog post
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+and we're going to name it the ever popular "hello world".
+
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+It's Emacs.
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+Great.
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+We've saved it.
+
+NOTE Dabbrev and hippie-expand
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+One of the things I encourage everybody to do
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+is to watch Jay Dixit's presentation, Emacs for Writers.
+
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+It showed me the utility of Dabbrev for quick auto correction.
+
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+And I also love using hippie-expand.
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+When I watch VS coders code, it's always a little sad pants
+
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+because they're thinking about coding or writing
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+in terms of their code.
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+But I have found as a programmer, I tend to write more tech,
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+more like English instead of programming code.
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+So I think it's important to understand these tools
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+that help me write better.
+
+NOTE Links
+
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+All right, we're going to go with links.
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+Links are foundational for the web.
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+I'm going to insert a public link,
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+which is a role playing game that I love,
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+Worlds Without Number.
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+And I'm going to go ahead and describe it.
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+A role playing game.
+
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+But I don't want to always say role playing game.
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+I'm going to abbreviate it.
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+So I wrote a function that will transform it.
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+And let's take a look at what that looks like on the inside.
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+When I do this real quick, it's toggling it back and forth.
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+And I'll just keep doing that.
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+I also have the idea of public notes and private notes.
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+Public is things that's going to have a URL.
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+I met a person at a conference.
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+He gave a talk on something that I thought was very useful.
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+I didn't write down what he talked about on his note.
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+I wrote it where it was more relevant to the topic.
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+And I can use a backlink to go find that.
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+Next up, I demonstrate the abbreviation.
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+I also have dates.
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+This is a semantic date in HTML5.
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+I can just have the year.
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+I can also just have something like that date is today.
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+And we have date links.
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+I don't have backlinks built up for that,
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+but I have ideas of how I go about doing it.
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+And last up, thank you Frank Herbert,
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+I want to introduce epigraphs.
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+So this is epigraph.
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+I just have that, any sufficiently, dot, dot, dot.
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+And that's my epigraph.
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+Backlinks, I mentioned that.
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+Let's go take a look at Jonathan, right?
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+He's a Rubyist, but importantly is the backlinks.
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+He gave a talk on, that's right, PDFs.
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+I can go look at what he spoke to
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+and I can reference that because I will remember
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+that talk or I will remember, oh, I need to look up PDFs.
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+Oh, I have something in PDFs.
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+Again, it's about stumbling upon data in a good way.
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+So thinking of making linking easy helps me
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+create more and more ways to find things,
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+both by links, backlinks, indices, file searches, and so forth.
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+It's all about information organization.
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+Next up is a really cool function of org capture.
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+So let's take a look here.
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+I'm going to start a clock.
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+It's running.
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+And I'm going to bring up my browser.
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+And I'm going to go ahead and capture to the content to clock.
+
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+And it brings up this block quote, which is lovely.
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+And boom, I'm going to save it.
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+I'm going to close this.
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+We're back here to my "hello world".
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+And it has grabbed a block quote for this.
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+Again, it helps me gather stuff up quickly.
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+I've bound that also in my RSS feed.
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+We're going to skip over macros, blocks, and the abstract.
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+And we're going to get into the export
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+because this is where we can see the magic
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+that happens because I want to take things
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+from private to public.
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+So I have bound a key.
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+These are my menu of things I don't want to forget.
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+I will export.
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+And here we go.
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+Here is my blog post in markdown format with Hugo shortcodes.
+
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+So let's go take a look at what that looks like.
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+Localhost.
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+I'm not writing in Rails.
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+"Hello world" right there.
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+This is the epigraph.
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+And I have a mention of Worlds without Number.
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+And I have mentioned this as a abbreviation.
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+So I include the first time this text.
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+Here's also Jonathan.
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+He is not a public reference thing.
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+Also, I have these things here.
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+And here's my captured information
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+along with the citation link to it.
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+Again, helpful to be consistent.
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+NOTE Conclusion
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+In conclusion, when I started learning Emacs,
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+I quickly shifted to vanilla Emacs and just started writing.
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+As I wrote, when I needed to do something that I'd previously
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+done in a text editor, I'd find an experiment with a package.
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+I continue that mindset.
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+As I write, I'm attending to what I'm doing.
+
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+And eventually, I realize if I were to just write
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+a function that does this one thing,
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+I'd have a smoother writing experience.
+
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+This helps me practice my craft, extend my editor,
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+understand its capabilities, and begin exploring other things.
+
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+The goal of this is all to minimize the distractions.
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+As I'm thinking about it, I wanted to quickly add it
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+and then move along,
+
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+basically creating breadcrumbs for me
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+to follow my thoughts in the future.
+
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+And one of those functions is
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+I'd like to write an extender for my abbr,
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+abbreviation export to work in Latex.
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+It's like halfway there.
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+So I'm looking forward to getting that done
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+when I have some time and can prioritize it.
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+But for now, thank you.
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+And I look forward to your questions.