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As many already know, I live in org-mode and keep my org files in a private bitbucket repository for safe keeping. One thing I don't (or didn't) do is push those files to the repository on a regular basis. The other morning I ate my wheaties and gained enough super power to rectify the issue.
Next out of the gate this week is the org-mode logo refresh. Well, actually it done last week but I'm only getting around to posting it now. As I mentioned in the last post, it's been hell-busy here.
Org-mode is an Emacs Mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system. I live in org-mode daily and when it was announced that it is up for a Sourceforge Community award I freshened up the logo for Carsten Dominik. The original logo was by french illustrator
Christophe Bataillon.
The image shows the before and after of the logo. The site now has the new logo posted.
I've been a long time OmniFocus user and am a daily (or habitual) emacs user so it only makes sense for me to dabble with org mode for a GTD system. After all, when I'm writing code, why not have my projects todo lists in the next window. So this morning I figured I'd give org mode a try. It's not polished like OmniFocus or Things but seriously; why does a todo list need satin pajamas? I'm not sure I'll stick with it but I at least need to give it a trial run for a week or two.
How I Roll
When I get an email from a client that needs attention I use the clipper that comes with OmniFocus (Clip-o-tron 3000) to create a new task with a link to the email embedded. I also like to send research urls from Safari for projects to my todo lists as notes. This helps keep me on top of things (if that's possible) as projects progress.
Outside of my usual ramblings I wanted to point out that Phil Hagelberg has a great collection of emacs starter-kits over at github for those interested in going for a swim but don't know where the water is.
Since Paul Bissex announced the api for Django-powered dpaste.com last week I've had it's been on my todo list to make a emacs mode for posting pasties.
First of all, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I hope you're enjoying food, family and football, I know I am. I'm also enjoying my new emacs minor-mode developed by Chris Wanstrath, aka defunkt.
Picking back up on the Emacs series I started earlier this month I would like to take some time to discuss the Dired mode for directory management.
I've used ECB in the past and found it nice, feature rich but in my opinion it had too much information and was in my way, not to mention it drastically increases emacs load time. So I removed it from my configs and now only use Dired. Once you get used to it it really is very powerful.
In messing around with emacs early this morning and a little google search I turned up a nice elisp snippet that works well for sending the current buffer you're working in to OmniFocus with a note attached.
Prior to my new Macbook Pro, I was an avid Quicksilver user. These days I use Spotlight exclusively. I was exuberant to find a similar solution for Emacs. The past few days I've been using Anything.el and Anything-Config.el and it has made my Emacs life much easier. It does things I couldn't achieve with Vim and using the two together is like Quicksilver for emacs.
I had planned on posting the Python Emacs article for the series but am very short on time today (and probably tomorrow as well). To keep up with the masses, I do have a few short emacs finds I'd like to share.
This really does go against my article about Distraction Free Programming but aren't we allowed a little fun now and then?
In Distraction Free Progamming with Emacs I mentioned the ability to have a shell or terminal running in a window within your workspace. This is extremely handy to run tests in Python Shell or to see when something is going wrong with your code. The emacs wiki is a great source of information but I'll give you a quick rundown on how to get up and running quickly.
Since becoming a switcher in 2004 I exclusively did my work in Textmate. Early summer 2008 I started to explore other options. I spent a couple of months in Vim, MacVim to be precise, and really enjoyed it. After I got comfortable with MacVim, it's tabs and use of NerdTree for file management started to feel a lot like Textmate. That's not necessarily a bad thing, just not what I was really looking for.
I am going to attempt to participate in the National November Writer's Month with Eric Florenzano, Eric Holscher, Brian Rosner, Justin Lilly and James Tauber. I'm going into this daunting experiment with a mostly positive attitude. (I think i can...) We'll see.
I've never done a series here on 20seven before so over the next few weeks I'll be doing a six part series on GNU emacs as my development environment. I'll be mixing in some posts on art and photography as well as Django related posts so bear with me.
