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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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