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# Emacs journalism (or everything's a nail if you hit it with Emacs)
Alfred Zanini (he/they)

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# PART I - Where I started


## Figuring out what you want out of your workflow

For me, that is:

-   note-taking and todos for admin and work tasks
-   project management - setting up deadlines for each task and reminders to check in with people
-   a writing environment when I need to focus on script work
-   a way to experiment with coding and integrating that into my work
-   storyboarding different scenes
-   scheduling interviews and reachouts for interviews


## Presentation of my previous workflow

Using google drive, word, storyboarder, wechat, notion


# Part II - Where I ended up


## Why Emacs ?


## Org-Contacts

Setting up Org-Contacts to track documentary leads and keep up with them -
also in use for personal contacts


## ORG Roam

Using Org-Roam to link project ideas and leads, and add summaries of interviews
/ transcripts to contact files. Org-Mode and Org-Contacts to schedule interviews,
reaching out, check-ins. All the while writing the script for the project on the
Org-Roam page, with global project questions and specific interview questions
for each scheduled shoot.


## PANDOC and working with colleagues

Once my first draft of the script is ready, I need to be able to share it for review.
This is where the "Everything's a nail when you hit it with emacs" part comes
in. Using Org-Mode for comments and for coloring with HTML tags and source
blocks Not the easiest nor the most fun way to collaborate, but it is where I
have ended up on.


## Other packages I use regularly for a documentary workflow

Mu4e Fountain.el hledger-mode bibtex for research papers present


# Conclusions


## Forever Work In Progress

A lot of features to be added and kinks
to be worked out but getting to a state where you can use software
that you love every day is the most important point to me

So let's keep modding our configs!



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