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# Emacs Turbo-Charges My Writing
Jeremy Friesen (he/him) - Pronunciation: JERR-im-EE FREE-SEHN, https://takeonrules.com, <mailto:jeremy@jeremyfriesen.com>
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<https://takeonrules.com/2023/12/03/emacs-turbo-charges-my-writing/>
I’ve been actively blogging since 2011. In May 2020 I switched to
writing my blog posts in Emacs. The numbers don’t lie, I’m writing
more than ever, in part because of Emacs.
In this presentation I’ll walk through my writing setup for Emacs.
I’ll go over the workflow of writing in Org Mode syntax with Denote
serving as my personal knowledge management system.
I’ll demonstrate some of functions (or types of functions) I use for:
- Dynamic auto-completion for Org-Mode macros
- Linking to other Org-Mode documents via different contexts (abbreviations, citations, and links)
- Different Org-Mode blocks that map to HTML elements
And with a complete post, I’ll then walk through the resulting export.
Demonstrating the output to Hugo (and its shortcodes) as well as other
formats.
About the speaker:
Jeremy Friesen is a long-time software developer but only recently an
Emacs convert (as of May 2020). When he switched to writing posts
using Emacs, he observed an explosion in writing, in part because of
the joy of using a tool that he can shape and extend to meet his needs
and wants.
# Discussion
## Questions and answers
- Q: Do you think the line number for writing document kind of
distraction? Especially for notes.
- A:I don't find it distracting; I've been coding for a long
time and those fringes are partially invisible. But help me
orient.
- or, what it brings to you, if we don't have that.
- Given that I'm writing code, prose, documentation, etc,
I prefer to have a common left fring...most of the time.
- Okay. I use (avy-goto-line &optional ARG) for jumping
- I bind C-j to jump to `avy-goto-char-timer`; My C-l is
bound to `consult-goto-line`
- Q: How do you manage private and public data with your zettlekasten.
One of my blockers on putting my zettlekasten on the web is I don't
want everything in it to be public. expeccily fleeting notes
- A: I explicitly export a single page at a time; this ensures the
primary page is something I consider public.
- Q: Do you have anything to prevent private links from getting
accidentally being made publicaly accessible
- The main guard is the "publish this page" function. Under
the hood, private notes are those that I don't specify a
public URL. I do this by way of the `#+ROAM_REFS:`
keyword (technically there are a few other keywords I check
as well; for bespoke historical reasons) on the document.
If it doesn't have that, then an internal link to that item
will not export a public link.
- Q: Is there anything special you're using to go from Org to Hugo
Markdown? This looks like a really nice setup, and I'd like to
give it a try!
- A: <https://github.com/jeremyf/dotemacs> you'll be looking for
jf-blogging.el (also jf-org-mode.el)
- Q: Another font question. What font were you using in eww?
- A: For fixed fonts I'm using "Iosevka Comfy Motion Fixed" and
for variable "ETBembo"
- Q: What's the story behind the name "Take On Rules"?
- A: The blog started as a game rules oriented blog; it was my
time to interrogate rule systems. But over time that drifted;
and once I moved to Org-Mode for writing I settled on an
everything and nothing blog. My
<https://takeonrules.com/about/> has a bit more details on this
- "Anything and nothing." Makes sense. :-)
## Notes
- <https://takeonrules.com> (presenter's personal blog)
- When you put your thoughts on the physical world, it actually helps
you to generate more. It's kind of releasing your mind and let your
mind freely be free so from that kind of states you can create
something new
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