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<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""Introduction""" start="00:00:01.220" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""Hello, I'm Alexey Bochkarev,""" start="00:00:01.220" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and I'm talking about unentangling projects""" start="00:00:03.740" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and repositories, or maybe entangling them,""" start="00:00:06.899" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""depending on how you look at that.""" start="00:00:09.679" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So there's going to be a short workflow note.""" start="00:00:12.980" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I work as a researcher,""" start="00:00:16.619" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So there are 3 main components to my work,""" start="00:00:19.940" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I guess. First, I think,""" start="00:00:23.680" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""so I try to come up with a new ideas that""" start="00:00:26.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""usually results in some collection of notes I""" start="00:00:28.140" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""have. Second, I try things out.""" start="00:00:31.580" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So it usually means that I write code.""" start="00:00:33.760" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And third, I communicate.""" start="00:00:36.820" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So I prepare papers, presentations,""" start="00:00:38.739" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""memos, and so on and so forth.""" start="00:00:41.260" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]

<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""The problem""" start="00:00:44.120" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""The workflow problem I had is""" start="00:00:44.120" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""sometimes all this does not really fit into a""" start="00:00:49.160" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""concept of a single repository per project.""" start="00:00:53.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So I might want to have,""" start="00:00:56.200" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""for example, a source code in one repository""" start="00:00:58.180" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and then I would like to have a paper in""" start="00:01:01.320" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""another one, and then I want to have a""" start="00:01:03.480" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""collection of notes somewhere unrelated to""" start="00:01:05.200" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""those two. Emacs is pretty good at supporting""" start="00:01:08.620" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""your workflows and I figured I should share""" start="00:01:12.500" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""what I used and what works for me.""" start="00:01:16.240" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""From the technical perspective,""" start="00:01:20.560" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""things are pretty easy.""" start="00:01:26.479" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I use a collection of pretty standard""" start="00:01:27.940" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""components of Emacs. So it's projectile, org""" start="00:01:30.720" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""mode with this capture templates, and other""" start="00:01:33.240" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""things. Then I sustained a collection of""" start="00:01:35.360" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""nodes in something that is called org-roam,""" start="00:01:38.100" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""which is essentially it's a glorified""" start="00:01:40.680" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""collection of org mode files.""" start="00:01:43.580" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Then I used directory-local variables,""" start="00:01:46.100" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""maybe a ctags to jump through the source""" start="00:01:48.260" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""code and very, very little elisp glue to""" start="00:01:51.140" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""make this all work, but that's not really""" start="00:01:54.920" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""rocket science. So that's the workflow I""" start="00:01:58.620" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""would like to talk about today.""" start="00:02:00.400" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]

<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""Jumping around""" start="00:02:04.860" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""So what I mean by all that,""" start="00:02:04.860" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it's pretty straightforward to make Emacs,""" start="00:02:07.960" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to make it easy to jump around a single""" start="00:02:10.680" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""repository in Emacs. So if I...""" start="00:02:12.720" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Now I have Doom Emacs,""" start="00:02:15.060" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but that's not really specific to a Doom""" start="00:02:16.640" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that'll work in any Emacs configuration.""" start="00:02:19.120" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Well, key bindings might be different,""" start="00:02:23.400" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but that's not the point,""" start="00:02:27.720" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I guess, for the workflow.""" start="00:02:28.820" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So if I hit space 2 times,""" start="00:02:30.060" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I have all the list of files within my""" start="00:02:31.960" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""project, right? So if I create a couple of""" start="00:02:34.640" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""custom shortcuts, so if I press a magic""" start="00:02:38.200" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""button, Hyper+o p... don't worry about""" start="00:02:42.780" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""hyper-key. So I want it to have a modifier""" start="00:02:45.280" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""key all to myself, so that would,""" start="00:02:47.560" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""no program on my computer would use that""" start="00:02:50.320" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""except Emacs. Emacs would use that only when""" start="00:02:53.200" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I tell it to, so I have a hyper key instead""" start="00:02:55.680" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of caps lock. That's pretty easy to do in GNU""" start="00:02:57.540" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Linux system. So when I press this magic""" start="00:03:00.720" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""keys, I have a menu that's a normal key""" start="00:03:04.940" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""binding. Yeah, essentially an Emacs.""" start="00:03:07.400" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And if I hit, for example,""" start="00:03:10.240" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""r, I end up in a README file within this""" start="00:03:12.540" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""specific repository I was sitting in,""" start="00:03:15.200" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""right? So if I want to document something""" start="00:03:17.320" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""real quick, I go to the README file.""" start="00:03:19.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Then I could go to a change log file,""" start="00:03:21.680" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]

<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""Capturing""" start="00:03:25.280" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""right? So I have a list of changes and the""" start="00:03:25.280" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""way it works usually, for example,""" start="00:03:27.440" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""if I'm working in some code,""" start="00:03:29.480" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I created a couple of dummy files in there,""" start="00:03:32.220" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""so I'm working in some code and then I""" start="00:03:34.280" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""implemented something and I can just use the""" start="00:03:36.560" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""org mode capture mechanisms to keep track of""" start="00:03:42.020" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""what I want to discuss with colleagues next""" start="00:03:46.860" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""time. For example, I could just hit capture""" start="00:03:48.880" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""repo specific changelog entry and I""" start="00:03:52.440" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""implemented a feature and I can continue""" start="00:03:56.200" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""working without this context switching.""" start="00:04:02.620" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And then if I want to go to the change log,""" start="00:04:04.340" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""well, it is there. And next time I talk to""" start="00:04:06.880" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the colleagues about the source code,""" start="00:04:11.320" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I can open the change log and go through""" start="00:04:12.720" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""entries 1 by 1 and discuss what I haven't""" start="00:04:14.340" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""implemented last time.""" start="00:04:16.800" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I could go to project-specific,""" start="00:04:19.540" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""sorry, to repo-specific to-do list.""" start="00:04:24.100" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And I have list of to-dos that would leave""" start="00:04:26.320" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""within a repository. And for example,""" start="00:04:29.020" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I could have a high level structure here,""" start="00:04:31.320" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""work distribution between team members and""" start="00:04:34.640" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""other things that sort of face outer world,""" start="00:04:36.460" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""so to speak. And of course,""" start="00:04:39.380" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""there are very many ways to jump through the""" start="00:04:42.840" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""source code conveniently.""" start="00:04:45.400" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]

<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""Ctags""" start="00:04:46.560" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""I ended up not using language servers. I use a""" start="00:04:46.560" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""special program called ctags and so the way""" start="00:04:49.960" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it works is just I call projectile regenerate""" start="00:04:53.320" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""tags and it creates the special tags file""" start="00:04:56.680" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""within the repository and then I can again""" start="00:05:00.460" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""run it I usually just hit a single keystroke""" start="00:05:06.240" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and here is all the symbols that are there in""" start="00:05:11.520" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""my source code, regardless of the language,""" start="00:05:14.060" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""right? So I can jump to the main function and""" start="00:05:17.160" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that'll be a C++ file.""" start="00:05:19.540" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Or I could go to the super function,""" start="00:05:21.020" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""which I had in my Python file.""" start="00:05:22.740" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And this comes in pretty convenient if I have""" start="00:05:25.380" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""a mixture of languages.""" start="00:05:27.120" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Sometimes I can have some algorithm specific""" start="00:05:28.360" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""code in Julia, and then I can have some""" start="00:05:30.800" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Python glue within the same source code""" start="00:05:33.280" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""repository, it makes it really convenient to""" start="00:05:35.380" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""jump between all of those.""" start="00:05:39.720" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]

<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""Org Roam""" start="00:05:43.080" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""But I have a few problems here.""" start="00:05:43.080" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So just to give you a little bit of context,""" start="00:05:47.360" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""for example, here is a real project that""" start="00:05:49.860" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""corresponds to real paper.""" start="00:05:53.100" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I have a single note about that project where""" start="00:05:55.840" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I keep all the things related to that project""" start="00:05:59.060" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""here, but that's a private note.""" start="00:06:01.780" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So for example, again,""" start="00:06:03.260" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I hit a special key that invokes my org-roam""" start="00:06:04.860" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""function that gives me a menu of my notes.""" start="00:06:08.640" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And so here is the paper,""" start="00:06:13.080" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""essentially. And I can have a paper timeline,""" start="00:06:15.200" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and I can have a list of all the dates what""" start="00:06:17.900" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""happened to the paper with links to my email,""" start="00:06:21.180" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""right? So for example if I hit this link that""" start="00:06:24.060" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""will open a specific email and that doesn't""" start="00:06:27.700" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""work outside of my computer,""" start="00:06:30.160" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""doesn't make any sense to keep it in the""" start="00:06:31.280" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""outer world facing repository,""" start="00:06:33.340" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""for example. So that's something to myself,""" start="00:06:35.500" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""right? Sometimes I want to have like this""" start="00:06:37.360" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""list of working notes,""" start="00:06:41.480" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""right, that contain like,""" start="00:06:43.940" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""for example, yeah, I might produce this kind""" start="00:06:45.780" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of things for internal discussion,""" start="00:06:49.200" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""right? It has some marks,""" start="00:06:50.640" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it has some margin notes and things like""" start="00:06:52.500" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that. Maybe again, health-based ideas that""" start="00:06:54.620" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""may or may not end up in a repository,""" start="00:06:57.620" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""in the final paper or in a source code,""" start="00:07:01.020" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but still I want to have it somewhere.""" start="00:07:03.220" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And well, long story short,""" start="00:07:07.120" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I need a project folder that would be""" start="00:07:08.800" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""unrelated to the source code or to the source""" start="00:07:11.680" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""code repository or to the paper itself or a""" start="00:07:16.120" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""final report, right? And 1 way,""" start="00:07:19.440" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""as usual, there are multiple ways to achieve""" start="00:07:22.960" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that, I suppose. And 1 way to do that is,""" start="00:07:24.720" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""so I create a special folder within my""" start="00:07:29.040" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""org-roam storage. So it's a special folder""" start="00:07:33.160" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""outside of any repositories that got backed up""" start="00:07:38.240" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to my hard drive with certain redundancy,""" start="00:07:40.940" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but I don't really need version control,""" start="00:07:44.080" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""full blown version control for that.""" start="00:07:46.720" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I'm okay with just having a couple of""" start="00:07:48.280" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""backups, right? So this is the folder you see""" start="00:07:49.760" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""here. So PKB stands for personal knowledge""" start="00:07:52.900" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""base, and I have a folder project notes in""" start="00:07:55.320" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""there, right?""" start="00:07:58.020" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]

<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""How does it work?""" start="00:07:59.340" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""How does it work?""" start="00:07:59.340" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So I have a folder per project in there,""" start="00:08:01.680" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""essentially. And here I can have all the""" start="00:08:05.020" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""stuff that kind of belongs to me and I do not""" start="00:08:07.900" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""publish it anywhere. And then,""" start="00:08:11.480" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""For example, a source code repository knows""" start="00:08:15.420" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""about that folder and a paper repository""" start="00:08:20.460" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""knows about that folder.""" start="00:08:23.460" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And anything else that might leave in""" start="00:08:25.120" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""separate places all over my system can know""" start="00:08:26.820" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""about that folder. How do I achieve that?""" start="00:08:28.820" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Well, essentially this is 1 of the use cases""" start="00:08:30.940" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""for the directory local variables,""" start="00:08:34.400" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""right? So for example,""" start="00:08:36.360" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""how does it work from the user perspective?""" start="00:08:39.520" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So if I hit a special key,""" start="00:08:41.580" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""oh, sorry, if I hit a special key,""" start="00:08:44.380" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""talk, but I can have, you know,""" start="00:09:01.260" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the house baked ideas here again,""" start="00:09:02.580" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""And how does that happen?""" start="00:09:07.440" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""If we try to like look at the code,""" start="00:09:09.940" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the elisp magic here,""" start="00:09:13.080" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""what is happening is it's just a couple of""" start="00:09:15.040" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""lines of code, in fact,""" start="00:09:17.560" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""so let me just press Control,""" start="00:09:18.720" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""help key. And so the key I was pressing is""" start="00:09:22.540" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""open project or my file.""" start="00:09:28.140" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And so what we see here,""" start="00:09:30.480" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""find file function. So I opened that file and""" start="00:09:34.760" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""there is a special function that figures out""" start="00:09:37.200" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""what is the like umbrella project nose file""" start="00:09:40.580" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and that's, again, that's very easy.""" start="00:09:44.620" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""then I use that as my project folder name.""" start="00:09:54.860" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""project tile. Well, that's pretty much it.""" start="00:10:00.480" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""And then whenever I go into that folder or""" start="00:10:17.440" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""any of its children folders,""" start="00:10:20.380" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I get this variable defined.""" start="00:10:22.300" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And that's pretty much it.""" start="00:10:24.840" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""That's how it works for me.""" start="00:10:26.280" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]

<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""Time tracking""" start="00:10:31.860" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""I guess 1 thing that I wanted to emphasize""" start="00:10:31.860" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""specifically about that is of course,""" start="00:10:35.380" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it is a time tracking,""" start="00:10:37.940" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""right? So what is I find especially important""" start="00:10:39.720" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""when I work in something and I want to clock""" start="00:10:42.260" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""time, I usually do not want this information""" start="00:10:44.340" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to be in a source code repository or in a""" start="00:10:47.800" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""paper repository because other people I work""" start="00:10:50.340" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""with will not be particularly happy about""" start="00:10:52.600" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that, especially if most of them do not use""" start="00:10:54.840" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""plain text format. So what I usually do if I""" start="00:11:03.820" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""want to clock in some time and then later""" start="00:11:07.540" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""analyze what I've been spending time on,""" start="00:11:10.240" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""my current project to-dos and I clock in""" start="00:11:16.880" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""there. And that's how it works.""" start="00:11:21.820" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So again, what comes in handy,""" start="00:11:23.940" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""file I jumped in into and that's I jumped""" start="00:11:31.500" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""from so that's also pretty handy.""" start="00:11:34.240" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So again no no rocket science in there.""" start="00:11:36.220" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""helps me to figure out what umbrella project""" start="00:11:42.660" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""does this particular folder belongs to.""" start="00:11:46.620" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And this way I make Emacs aware of,""" start="00:11:49.940" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""for example, facts like,""" start="00:11:53.260" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""And this paper, this repository with a paper""" start="00:11:56.740" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""also belongs to that project.""" start="00:11:59.180" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And I can have capture templates that would""" start="00:12:01.060" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""save my notes into the my private notes file""" start="00:12:04.060" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and my to-dos and go to my private note files""" start="00:12:07.800" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and so on and so forth.""" start="00:12:10.920" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So I find it pretty simple but that really""" start="00:12:12.260" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""helps to reduce this context switching.""" start="00:12:15.520" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And I don't believe it allows me to save""" start="00:12:19.600" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""time, but that probably helps me to stay""" start="00:12:22.040" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""focused. And this is what is really""" start="00:12:26.260" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""important, I believe. So thank you very much.""" start="00:12:28.420" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And if you have any comments or suggestions""" start="00:12:31.400" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to that, please do jump into the discussion.""" start="00:12:33.320" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Yeah, after the talk, thank you.""" start="00:12:37.120" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]]

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