Org Mode
2020: My Year in Emacs
Other than the very fabric of society being torn apart, and other than the silver lining of getting to spend so much time with my wife and 2 year old daughter, the big theme of 2020 for me personally was Emacs.
Getting Things Done: Projects List and Next Actions
Lately I’ve been practicing David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” framework, which consists of components for getting tasks out of your head and into a system to improve productivity and reduce stress. I wrote about the overall system here. In this post, I want to talk about my Projects list and my Next Actions agenda.
Timekeeping with Emacs and Org-Mode
Although I have been an Emacs user for 15 years, for the first 13 of those years I only used a handful of commands and one or two “modes”. A couple years ago I went through the Emacs tutorial (within Emacs, type C-h r) to see if I was missing anything useful. I was not disappointed! Since that time, I have gone through the entire Emacs manual, made full use of Elpy to create a rich Python IDE, adopted Magit to speed up my version control workflow, and more!
Getting Things Done
Getting Things Done or GTD is a productivity framework introduced by David Allen. Since his book was first published in 2001, the paradigm has achieved something of a cult status, especially among Emacs users. In this post I will describe my very-much-in-progress implementation of these systems.