Topic - Org Mode
Org Mode is a package for the Emacs text editor that makes it easier to keep notes, plan tasks, export documents, and so on. You can find out more at https://orgmode.org/ .
Here are (most of) my Org-related blog posts.
Workflows
- Some tips for learning Org Mode for Emacs (Jan 2014)
- Updating my audio braindump workflow to take advantage of WhisperX (2024)
- Org Mode publishing workflow for Sketched Books collection (Dec 2014)
- A day in a life with Org
- What do I want from my Org Mode files?
- Emacs: How I organize my Org files
- How I use Emacs Org Mode for my weekly reviews (June 2013)
- Emacs Org mode and publishing a weekly review (Sept 2010)
- New note-taking workflow with Emacs Org-mode (Sept 2010)
- Using Org Mode to keep a process journal (Nov 2014)
- How Org Mode helps me deal with an ever-growing backlog (Apr 2014)
Capture and input
- Org Mode: Format Libby book highlights exported as JSON (2024)
- Providing values to functions in org-capture-templates (June 2015)
- Org Mode: Reusing the date from file-datetree-prompt (Feb 2015)
- Capturing links quickly with emacsclient, org-protocol, and Chrome Shortcut Manager on Microsoft Windows 8 (Nov 2015)
- Emacs: Recording ledger entries with org-capture-templates
Notes
- Improving how I organize notes with Org Mode (Dec 2014) I describe how I organize my Org Mode files, and I think about using tags and links to organize my Org Mode files more effectively.
- Searching Your Notes
- Outlining Your Notes with Org
- January - Chapter 7: Taking Notes
- Learn how to take notes more efficiently in Org Mode (Feb 2015)
- Note-taking: Random notes, journal entries, outlines, and hyperlinks
Tasks
- Remove open Org Mode clock entries (2025)
- Shuffling my Org Mode unscheduled tasks (2024)
- Change Org Mode TODO keyword color based on the state and the current Modus theme (2024)
- How to use Emacs Org as a Basic Day Planner
- Projects in Emacs Org
- Emacs: Getting Things Done with Org - Basic
- Tagging in Org - plus bonus code for timeclocks and tags!
- Clocking Time with Emacs Org
- Emacs: Strike through headlines for DONE tasks in Org
- Thinking about my TODO keywords (Apr 2014)
Agenda
- Using consult and org-ql to search my Org Mode agenda files and sort the results to prioritize heading matches (2024)
- Using categories to organize your Org agenda
- Emacs Org: Display projects with a few subtasks in the agenda view (Jan 2013)
- Emacs Org: Task-related keyboard shortcuts for the agenda (Jan 2013)
- Emacs Org: Display a subset of tasks by context
- Org-mode and habits
- Adding calculations based on time to the Org Agenda clock report (June 2015)
Images and videos
- Treemap visualization of an Org Mode file (2025)
- Org Babel, Mermaid JS, and fixing "Failed to launch the browser process" on Ubuntu 24 (2025)
- Include inline SVGs in Org Mode HTML and Markdown exports (2024)
- org-attaching the latest image from my Supernote via Browse and Access (2024)
- Fixing my old ambiguous sketch references (2023)
- Org Mode: Insert YouTube video with separate captions (2021)
- Using Org Mode, LaTeX, Beamer, and Medibang Paint to make a children’s book
- Making an 8-page 7″x4.25″ captioned photo book with Org Mode and LaTeX
- Org Mode: Create a quick timestamped note and capture a screenshot
Refiling and organization
- Org Mode: Merge top-level items in an item list (2025)
- Org Mode: Prompt for a heading and then refile it to point (2024)
- Automatically refiling Org Mode headings based on tags (2023)
- Making a numpad-based hydra for categorizing Org list items
- Sorting Org Mode lists using a sequence of regular expressions
- Digital index piles with Emacs: Rapid categorization of Org Mode items (Feb 2015)
- #org-mode answers: task creation time, subtree at end, Emacs Lisp variables in TBLFM, logbook and refile
Babel and source blocks
Publishing
- Working with smaller chunks of thoughts; adding anchors to paragraphs in Org Mode HTML export (2025)
- Linking to Org Babel source in a comment, and making that always use file links (2024)
- Changing Org Mode underlines to the HTML mark element (2024)
- Yay Emacs 7: Rewriting and copying custom Org Mode links (2024)
- Add a note to the bottom of blog posts exported from my config file (2021)
- Org Mode: Inserting a function definition
- Linking to and exporting function definitions in Org Mode (2023)
- Adding :target option for the TOC keyword in Org Mode
- Moving my Org post subtree to the 11ty directory (2023)
- Org Mode: Including portions of files between two regular expressions (2023)
- Publishing Emacs News as plain text, HTML, and attached Org file
- Turning an Org Mode outline into an HTML table with a column for more notes
- Helping someone get started with Emacs and Org Mode through Org2Blog and LaTeX; troubleshooting steps
- Mailing non-Emacs users your Org notes
- Using org2blog to publish Org-mode subtrees
- How to present using Org-mode in Emacs (Apr 2013)
- Publishing my Org agenda to my blog
- Using Org Mode tables and Emacs Lisp to create Minecraft Java JSON command books (2023)
Data
- Getting an Org link URL from a string; debugging regex groups (2025)
- Using your own Emacs Lisp functions in Org Mode table calculations: easier dosage totals (June 2015)
- Using Emacs Org Mode tables to calculate doses to buy (June 2015)
- Getting data from Org Mode tables (Jan 2015)
- Org Mode tables and fill-in quizzes - Latin verb conjugation drills in Emacs (Nov 2015)
- Org Mode date arithmetic (August 2015)
- Emacs Org Mode and the power of plain text (Mar 2015)
- Using Org to help make a font:
Misc
- Logging sent messages to Org Mode with message-sent-hook (2022)
- Comparison-shopping with Org Mode (2022)
- Using Emacs Org for grocery lists and batch cooking
- Rediscovering Emacs features, or what to do after you get carried away installing packages - org drill
- Summarizing the last meeting dates in Org Contacts (June 2014)
- Quick notes from Emacs Org-mode talk at GTALUG
- Org-toodledo
- Nothing quite like Org for Emacs
- Thoughts on Toodledo versus Emacs Org
- Emacs Org Mode Customization Survey (Nov 2013)
- Chapter 7: Managing Your Notes in Emacs - done!
- Emacs Org Google Tech Talk
- Emacs Org and BBDB: Hyperlinking names to blogs
Obsolete
- Emacs: Smarter interactive prompts with Org remember templates
- Working on section on Org and projects
- zomg another chapter up!
- Writing plans for the chapter on managing notes
- Emacs: Choosing between Org and Planner
- Planning an Emacs-based personal wiki - Org? Muse? Hmm…
- How to update the Org 7 that comes with Emacs to Org 8 (more configuration! better exports!) (May 2014)
See also: emacs