January – Chapter 7: Taking Notes
| emacsFor January 2008, my assignment is to write a chapter on taking notes
with Emacs. Here are the blog posts that I plan to write, each around
1000-2000 words long. This should give me plenty of material to edit,
if I don’t go mad first. ;)
- [ ] Keeping Notes in Emacs
Structured vs Unstructured (outline, free-form)
Flat vs Hyperlinked
Private vs Public
File structure (one file, daily, snippets)
- [ ] Outline Notes with Org, Blorg
- [ ] Daily Notes with Planner
- [ ] Hyperlinked Notes and Muse
- [ ] Publishing Muse
- [ ] Publishing Planner, RSS
- [ ] Remember: quick note entry
- [ ] Snippets with Howm
- [ ] Blogging from Emacs - WordPress, LJ, Blogger,Muse-Blosxom, EmacsAtomAPI
- [ ] Encrypted Notes (full file, segments) - MOSTLY WRITTEN
I find that thinking of a book as a collection of articles works out
well for me. Starting with a rough outline like this, I’ll write
2000-word articles of the kind that I’d write for Linux Journal or
LinuxWorld, and then I’d put them into my outline and add transitions.
After I write all the pieces, then I can write the introduction and
the wrap-up sections.
Slowly getting the hang of this writing thing… =)
Random Emacs symbol: message-narrow-to-headers-or-head – Function: Narrow the buffer to the head of the message.
1 comment
Raymond Zeitler
2008-01-10T22:00:45Z"Blogging from Emacs" YES! I can't wait!
I hope I won't need to host my web site on my own computer, though!