Love the sketchnote of our IP lecture last week! You are super-talented, and your artwork is totally copyrightable ... :)

hi, I have been following your sketch from long time,just wanted to say Thank you your work had helped me alot in all aspects of life,you know if you translate your name in hindi(Indian Language) it means (true mouse) :) keep the good work going,Knowledge is Power.

Hi. Check out, Srinivas Rao. You might like his interview style. Great guests and he creates more content than anyone I've ever met.

Hello Sacha. First of all, I would like to say huge thank you for everything you have done so far! I recently learned about your blog and sketchnoting. Since then, I have been searching frantically apps, stylus, and other techniques to practice and develop my sketchnote taking and visual recording skills. I currently own Asus 10.1 tablet (1.5 years old). I recently tried out Artflow free version app with standard stylus (not fine tip) and noticed it did skipping (not drawing a smooth line) quite significantly. I wonder if it's because my skills are still not equipped, because it's free version, or because my stylus is not thin enough or my tablet itself is too slow.. I want to ask what your opinion is about that. I'm more towards to either my lack of skill but want to know if there is anything I can do to correct that.

Thank you so much for your great work!

Hi Sacha. I was going through your emacs config file to get started and it turns out the link to the "Emacs-Starter-Kit" is dead now. It can now be found on github:

http://eschulte.github.io/e...

The link titled "Making the most of my introversion" results in a 404. I'd love to read your writings on that topic.

Hi Sacha. I tried reaching out to you via email but not sure if I got lost in a backlog of emails. Any chance we can have a quick chat about SAP Young Thinkers and your quantified self work?

Hi Sacha, I found some of your stick art figures online and would like to use six of them for a chart presentation. Attached is the chart. Please?

Hi Sacha, i am new in emacs and amazed and loved org-mode. But not Mobile-org. What do you think about Mobileorg or using org-mode in android?

Nice blog. I enjoyed a lot of reading from it. Got it from emacs.zeef.com. Any chance to feature the collection of popular Emacs package on emacs.zeef.com?

You have so much material on org mode that I have no idea where to start! I want to give org mode a serious try this year and I'm wondering how you might suggest that I go about consuming all of your org articles. Is there a particular reading order you would recommend?

Inspired from your blog, I have started my blog: https://sanjeevkumarverma.w....

Hi Sacha! Inspired' from your stoic sketchnotes which make up an Action- Plan with specific terms and responsabilities that goes through one’s whole life, I'm writing to you on behalf of the SNK Association in Bucharest, Romania. Our projects regard mainly popularizing the stoic philosophy and the stoic way of life here in Romania. For that we have two main activities. The first on is the Seneca Lucius Annaeus Editura Publishing House, that addresses mostly young people, so our books come with specially made graphic illustrations realized by students from the National Arts University. Inspired by Seneca’s texts they have brought to life the philosopher’s words with images to represent the core of their knowledge.
Our other running project is the Seneca Anticafe, a place with multiple resources (a 5000 book multilingual library, bookshop, working desks, a place for seminars and conferences and so on, there is a link bellow) We organize lectures, eco-living trainings, screenings and other activities.
By its status, the Association is a Not For Profit Organization, all revenue goes back into funding additional translations, publishing, and so on.
The reason why I am writing is you "stoic graphic translations" and would very much like to be able to translate it in Romanian and make it available here in a printed version. So we kindly ask for the right to use the sketches, should you be kind enough to answer our request.

Thank you!

Anastasia Stayku.

Hi Sacha~!! I'm so thankful to you to know your blog. I'm looking for a good guide to plan a day. Because I want to break through my lethargy and sleep disorder. I inspired from your blog and I've got desire to apply your idea some of my life. Thank you Sacha =)
- SY

Hi Sacha,

i need your help to create function which can reschedule agenda line item to some relative date in future.

castern created one such function to reschedule agenda line item from past date to today.

---

(defun org-agenda-reschedule-to-today ()
(interactive)
(flet ((org-read-date (&rest rest) (current-time)))
(call-interactively 'org-agenda-schedule)))

---
how can i modify it to reschedule agenda items to today+4d

Great resources for Emacs on this blog - I ll be sure to check out the others as well :)

I surfed in to read about how you made your own transcription foot pedal. I'd like to see you write a macro that would let transcriptionists use the keyboard instead of a foot pedal (specifically the stop and start commands for playing the sound file.) This would allow someone to ride an exercise bike while they transcribe. Is is possible?

Hi Sasha, I'd like to purchase some things via Gumroad. But since you suggested to not use it for monetary compensation, I'd like to ask you for a different way to get some money for the ressources to you. Thank you very much in advance and thank you for sharing :)

Hi Sacha! Thanks for this blog and your publications, what a great source of ideas and inspiration! I didn't found your blog that way, but reading your texts on blogging inspired me to blog more, as I've tried so many times during the last years without success. The idea of writing anything you want, even if it's just to use later as a personal archive is great in itself and I'm counting on it to stay motivated =) I'm questioning myself more right now on the language I should use to blog : I'm Canadian too, but from Quebec. As I want to write more about my personal experience with Emacs (first reason I found your blog), Linux and academia (As a cultural geographer working on LGBTQ issues), writing in English would surely help me get a broader audience but at the same time, I guess writing in french could help others french speakers learn about these subjects. Finishing your book on blogging left me with this interrogation and it will probably end into one or multiples blog posts. Thanks again for your inspiration, you can count me as a new follower and avid reader =)

Hi Sacha! I have been really enjoying reading your blog posts! My name is Aisha and I am an intern working at the organization called Jane's Walk. Jane's Walks are free walking tours led by volunteers, on which people can tell stories about their communities, explore their cities, and connect with neighbors. We want to incorporate sketchnoting within our walks, so I wanted to know if you have any tips or guidance to capture great sketches or sketch notes on or from a walk? Your help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi,
I came across your work while searching for a sketch notes class that I could take. Girl, you are AMAZING!!! I spend a lot of time thinking and understanding how artists think, and the way you think must be fascinating.

I am an artist and teacher, developing what I think is a new way to teach art. In the middle of writing the second draft of a guide for teachers, I realize I need a coach or editor of some sort-one who thinks visually and understands cognition and how creative thinking develops. A rare constellation of gifts. I stumbled across you, and wondered if you ever do any coaching....?

Either way, thank you for making your thinking so visible to everyone else who can learn from it. That is a rare kind of generosity.
Kind Regards,
kimberley

Hey Sacha, great emacs posts. I am searching for emacs (editor macros, of course) conference. But I just got a marketing conference.... Do you know any up coming conference?

Thank you so much for the emacs interviews!

Hey Sacha,
I am trying to transcribe stuff or speak to text but somehow I feel there must be sth better out there.
Google somehow stops in the middle, even when I am at home and connected to the internet.
transcribe is okish but also I feel that it suddenly stops in the middle.
I feel like I am loosing my thought when I start rereading it. And if I dont I only see after the end that it doesnt make sense and that I dont even rmember what I wrote.
The stuff I want to transcribe is me thinking out loud.

Maybe I have to record it first and then transcribe it and skip the speech to text?

You transcribe so much stuff so I wanted to ask what tools you use. Maybe you can help me out?

That would be awesome.

Hello Sacha,
I just linked to your awesome sketchnoting tips on my german page about sketchnoting: https://sketchnoting.net/re...
I like your style and all the other things in your blog! Keep up the great work!
Maybe you can link to my page, too, for your german visitors. :-)
Thanks
Timo

Hello Sacha,

I wrote this post last year - https://opensource.com/life.... Please share with the wider audience if you find it useful.

I llve org-mode. I am just wrapping my head around it, but am starting to get a pretty good feel for it, and my init file is starting to get tweaked to create an environment that really works. I have a question about sparse trees, and having the results show up expanded. Right now, it shows the results of the search narrowed, and if i expand with S Tab, it removes the filter. Only issue i haven't been able to readilly find. Can you help, or perhaps point me in the right direction? Your website is one of the best org-mod blogs around!

hello Sacha, I came across your blog in my MBA study and became very interested in it. Would you mind sharing your 5-year experiment of semi-retirement? How did this idea come about and how did you find the journey so far? I've worked in universities and public sectors for more than 10 years, got a bit bored with corporate culture, and am now looking for a higher and freer horizon to develop my career. Many thanks for your sharing.
Angel

As still a newbie to Emacs, congrats on your excellent blog, always a goto place for learners and experts! Two questions:

1) Do you recommend anaconda or Elpy as python environment for Emacs?
2) Is it possible to have a similar interface using Python such as with Hydrogen Atom with interactive output of code in the document [See https://atom.io/packages/hy... to see what I mean].
3) I have Ely and Jedi at the moment installed in muy Emacs 24, but I don't get the automatic formatting and autocompletion when writing Python code. Any advice?
Thanks so much in advance and keep the good work up!

Hi Sacha! Do you ever come to the SF Bay Area? I organize the local Emacs meetup and we'd love to have you speak.

Hi Sacha, can we repost your book sketchnotes on our networking platform?

Hello Sacha, do you teach Bisaya? Or know someone who teaches in the Toronto area? Thanks!

hello Sacha, i have a question: "In the command line, when i run command "emacs 1 2 3", why the current buffer is 3 instead of 1, how to tinker this?" thanks in advance!

Hey Sacha -- Thanks so much for your blog.

I was wondering, since you say you use Gnus for email/newsgroups, why do you load notmuch? I've just started trying it and love some things about it (speed) but Gnus is more configurable.

hi sacha, i'm new to emacs (vim user) and have read your posts for new to emacs?, so what to do next? thanks

Hi Sacha,
I started reading your blog for the emacs content but I really enjoy the rest of it too, like your writing on parenting.

Your writing and ideas were part of the motivation to put an emacs package I wrote on MELPA:
https://github.com/bdc34/he...
Thanks.

Hi Sacha! As a PhD student about to write my dissertation I have heard people talk about Asciidoc being superior to LaTeX or any dialects of Markdown for this task. However, as far as I understand the Emacs support for Asciidoc is so far not that good. Do you know if anyone in the Emacs community is working to improve this?

Hello I just came across your blog about designing conferences and making them even better which is what I love too, thank you for sharing your work! You might like the book 'the art of the gathering' which is related. Lisa

Hi Sacha! just came across your blog thanks to a friend who's into emacs -- I'm a Vim user since a while now, and contemplated moving to emacs for its orgmode/orgbrain which i heard lots of good things about.

Wish to ask questions/discuss idea on a possible workflow i want on emacs, and maybe exchange advice, my twitter is https://twitter.com/nordmag... if you want to further discuss, unless you prefer email :)

Great blog, reading every week :) keep it up!

Your blog is fantastic, I especially like the list of org and emacs related links! Definitely keep it going!

So glad I discovered your blog. emacs isn't so daunting after all. I thought you might like to know, though, that planet.emacsen.org isn't reachable.

I've followed for a long time, but then I fell off for an equally long time. It was a great surprise when I came back tonight and found you still here. I will have to catch up on all the Emacs/A/W goodness. Thanks for all you do, and for sharing it with us.

Do you provide Emacs coaching service? I am a teacher and researcher and want to boost productivity with Emacs.

If you do not, could you give pointers to help me finding a coach?
Thanks!

Love your sketches and thoughts... feel like you are a kindred parenting spirit even though you are a far, far more tech savvy version ! :)

Hi, this is suuuch a longshot but I found your blog on a Google deep dive looking for a specific recipe - you don't happen to still have the Yung sing dim sum recipe book you used in your post on coconut buns by any chance, do you? I realize it was in 2011... I've been looking for their recipe for tofu buns ever since the restaurant closed and its very elusive!

Was wondering just how in the world, my emacs posts were getting so much love, until I stumbled upon planet.emacslife.com today and was so delighted to see my blog on there.
And then was even more delighted to discover that you were the evil genius behind the planet.
Thank you so much for doing this! And have a lovely day :)

Hope you are doing well.
ChatGPT tells me that you have some useful blogs on Desktop+ but the URLs are no longer valid.
1. "Using Desktop+ for Emacs: Organizing your workday" - https://sachachua.com/blog/...
2. "Desktop Save Mode and Desktop+" - https://sachachua.com/blog/...
If you still have these blogs, could you pass me their working urls?
Thanks in advance,

Hi Sacha,

I found your link about David O'Toole emacs ai assistant. I read his demo 3 days ago but today I see the gitlab link is not working anymore and the project seems to be gone. That's a pity because it looked very interesting. If you happen to know anything about the future of Marvin the assistant please let me know. Thank you and have a great week!

Hi! Thanks a lot for your efforts. Your Emacs News feed is outstanding! Cheers!