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Tag: Emacs

  • CalDAV to Emacs diary

    Please, there must be a thousand ways to do this that I haven’t discovered. If you know of anything simpler, I’m all ears.

    I use the Emacs Diary all the time. I prefer it to using only Org-mode dates in my agenda. The tricky piece is getting the stuff from my CalDAV (Fastmail) calendar into the diary.

    Hanno’s post, Managing calendar events in Emacs got me started. Their post is more geared toward Org dates, but it gave me a good leg up.

    Basically, it’s this:

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  • A timeline

    Monday: “Cool, I can do everything in Emacs and a terminal!”

    Wednesday: “I’m so sick of using Emacs and a terminal for everything”

  • Org-node

    I just learned about Org-node. Org-node is an Emacs package that mimics much of Org-roam, but claims to be faster and easier to pick up. It’s node-based (via org-ids) and is pretty full-featured.

    I’ve (temporarily) replaced my Denote workflow with Org-node, to see how it feels. I like the node-based approach. I also like that it uses org-ids for linking. I often worry that Denote’s “denote:” style links aren’t portable.

    Org-node is worth a look.