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Cake day: October 27th, 2023

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  • I feel I haven’t explained properly. Typing links out manually works fine (like your example).

    But I don’t get the preceeding space using org-store-link (or using org-roam-node-insert or org-roam-node-find - presumably these call org-store-link.

    My workflow is:

    1. In insert mode, type text, with a trailing space before where I want the link;
    2. Somehow when I exit insert mode, the trailing space after my text gets deleted; and
    3. In normal mode, call org-store-link (or one of the roam ones).

    What I end up with is the link nestled against the last non-space charachter of my text



  • Lol, I started with ipodlinux. That Svalboard looks great.

    Kudos for working deeply in emacs every day - I’ve been an occasional user (weekly / monthly) for 2+ years. I feel like I google / M-x more than I actually work. Many a time I’ve felt like quitting.

    WSLg will hopefully change that, at least in the office.

    About the comments, I think people have been OK on the whole - I was expecting far more actual hate


  • I’ll do my best to explain.

    I have given work presentations using org / reveal.js, and taken conference notes in org, but in a nutshell I find OneNote just easier to use and more flexible in a Windows / knowledge work environment:

    I have 3 or so years experience using org (daily on Android, weekly in emacs), and 5+ with OneNote. I learned OneNote when I learned GTD, and org came later.

    So I do have greater experience with OneNote, and find it does much of what org does (tags, todo / calendar tasks). A lot of the features are comparable.

    I heavily use “find tags” in OneNote, to find todo, awaiting etc tasks from among my projects and find that an effective tag-based search. It’s not an org-agenda replacement, but

    In my work environment OneNote does a few things out the box my current org setup doesnt:

    • Is installed by default on pretty much any knowledge workers work machine, no admin requests etc required;

    • Integrates with O365, so I can:

      • add tasks to Outlook and easily send / assign them to others in Planner;
      • deal directly with Outlook / exchange items (most of my inputs and outputs are email or pdf);
      • add a OneNote note to any MS Team
    • Accepts any input and will display it WYSWIG. So I can treat each project as a page, and dump documents in there (either embedded or “printed”), screenshots, diagrams etc, in whatever way I need to - and even scribble all over that with diagrams, arrows etc using a windows ink pen. All the while using tags to give context to items;

    • as a result of the above, OneNote allows a note to be very flexibly formatted. Many of mine are 2 columns:

      • the first a table containing a running timeline of actions (with or without embedded emails / pdfs etc); and
      • the second various documents, parts of documents, screenshots / drawings etc - displayed right there, not a link away.

    That said I’ve had WSLg a week or so now, and that level of integration between emacs and Windows is really nice, so things might change.

    I hope that helps explain - if I’m doing things in ON that org could do for me with a setup change I’m all for learning how