I'm experimenting with spending more time focusing on Emacs. So far, it's working well. I've been moving more resources to Git and github.io (http://github.com/sachac/) to make it easier for people to check out and view the Org files in Emacs. And people have started sending me pull requests, hooray! itsjeyd contributed a section to this Emacs Lisp tutorial. This week, I'm planning to flesh out the reading Emacs Lisp tutorial more.

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending April 18, 2014
• Emacs ABCs: A is for Apropos
• Emacs Chat: Jānis Mancēvičs
• How I use Google Chrome custom search engines for quick access
• Reinvesting time and money into Emacs
• Planning ahead for the stories
• How Org Mode helps me deal with an ever-growing backlog

Sketches

• 2014-04-24 Frugal Fire Show 005 - Bakari Kafele
• 2014-04-25 When I feel blah #productivity

Link round-up

• The Change My Son Brought, Seen Through Personal Data: Oooooh, graphs. Lovely graphs.
• The frightening thing you learn when you quit the 9 to 5: It takes a while to get used to determining your own life, but it's worth it.
• The Quick & Easy Guide to Putting Your Podcast on Auto-Pilot!: Chris Ducker shares his costs in the comments. $120 per episode, gosh!
• I uploaded my emacs config to github, I hope you like it :). I called it dopemacs: Neat package list. I should make something like this too. Also, Reddit comments have some more links to configs to explore.
• Questionably useful flowchart about my podcast: Cool! Might be nice to make something like this.
• Dired Shell Commands: The Find & Xargs Replacement: I should get the hang of how *, ?, and & work… Hat-tip to Irreal for the link
• Integrate org-mode and HabitRPG: Interesting…
• How do YOU navigate inside buffers?: Useful suggestions in the comments.

Focus areas and time review

• Business (32.9h – 19%)
  • [ ] Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
  • [ ] Go to Quantified Self meetup
  • [ ] Host visual thinkers meetup
  • [ ] Record session on learning keyboard shortcuts
  • Earn (12.9h – 39% of Business)
  • Build (9.7h – 29% of Business)
    • [X] Build – Coding: Tweak post info to appear in sidebar on wide screens (> 1600px)
    • [X] Add batch operation for "Today" and "Yesterday" to clothing view
    • [X] Read Eloquent Ruby
    • [X] Track all the experiments
    • [X] Fix vagrant VM
    • [X] Analyze a year of clothing data
    • Drawing (0.5h)
    • Delegation (2.5h)
      • [X] Brainstorm more tasks
      • [X] Add more tasks to delegation board in Trello
    • Packaging (0.0h)
      • [X] Set up custom domain for git, update redirects
      • [X] Decide on Linode crossgrade to SSD
      • [X] Getting R and ggplot2 to work in Emacs Org Mode Babel blocks; also, tracking the number of TODOs
      • [X] Use the structured debriefing framework for one occasion, then reflect on it
    • Paperwork (0.1h)
    • Emacs
      • [X] Outline a book or the key things that need improved documentation/tutorials
      • [X] Learn how to plot with Org and R
      • [X] Clean up live coding screencast for viewing tasks by project
      • [X] Add more sections to Emacs Lisp tutorial
      • [X] Experiment with exporting orgtbl
      • [X] https://github.com/robtillotson/org-pandoc
      • [X] Reinvesting time and money into Emacs
      • [X] Share picking up workflow tips by reading other people's configs
  • Connect (10.3h – 31% of Business)
    • [X] Help with gozes' configuration
    • [X] Help zeltak
    • [X] Invite bbatsov for an Emacs Chat
    • [X] Plan pairing with Tom Marble?
    • [X] Set up interviews with people
    • [X] Talk to David Wolever about Emacs
    • [X] Frugal Fire: Co-host interview with Bakari
    • [X] Frugal Fire: Transition to Jordan
    • [X] Check parts for rice cooker
    • [X] Fix rice cooker
    • [X] Chat with splintercdo (Janis) about literate programming
    • [X] Set up conversations
• Relationships (5.9h – 3%)
• Discretionary – Productive (28.5h – 16%)
  • [X] Ask questions in public
  • [X] Download talks as MP3
  • [X] Follow up on missing book? Obliquity
  • [X] Make a list of questions I'm curious about
  • [X] Tidy up desk
  • [X] What's new in Rails
  • [X] [#C] Track cat data
  • [ ] Deposit USD
  • [ ] [#C] Tracking: Update the number of tasks
  • Writing (9.5h)
• Discretionary – Play (16.9h – 10%)
• Personal routines (25.0h – 14%)
• Unpaid work (6.1h – 3%)
• Sleep (55.6h – 33% – average of 7.9 per day)