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2023-06-26

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2023-06-12

  • 18:08 UTC (new) (history) 2023-06-12 Counting time, backwards . . . . mbork – Some time ago I thought that I would like to have a feature Org mode doesn’t seem to have. There are things I would like to do once in a while, but I don’t need a reminder with a hard deadline (like a repeating one) – I’d prefer a gentle nudge. What if I could display a list of things I select, each one with information how long ago I did it last?

2023-06-03

  • 10:31 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2023-06-03 Org agenda clock check . . . . Anonymous – You missed the very important and really helpful overlap check!
  • 05:30 UTC (new) (history) 2023-06-03 Org agenda clock check . . . . mbork – Some time ago (well, a long time ago) someone posted an interesting discovery in Org mode agenda: “clockcheck mode”. I stored the link to that message with the intention of blogging about it and forgot about it. I rediscovered it some time ago and decided to take a look.

2023-05-29

2023-05-20

2023-05-13

  • 11:46 UTC (new) (history) 2023-05-13 Dieting with Org mode . . . . mbork – Some time ago I started to weigh myself every day. Some people argue that this is a bad idea and you should weigh yourself once per week to avoid worrying about random fluctuations. I disagree – the way not to worry about random fluctuations is to look at moving averages instead, Hacker's Diet-style. Note: I do not necessarily endorse Hacker’s Diet as a whole, but the moving average approach is certainly a good one. For the sake of simplicity, I am going to use simple (unweighted) moving averages over one week. I want to keep my weight data in an Org mode table (obviously).

2023-05-06

  • 08:21 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2023-05-06 Juggling playlists in EMMS . . . . mbork – Thanks, I had no idea that exists! I'll check it out.
  • 06:12 UTC (new) (history) 2023-05-06 Juggling playlists in EMMS . . . . mbork – It’s been several times now that I described my productivity system here. While I like it a lot, it still has room for improvement. Some time ago I mentioned it to a colleague and shared one frustration I have with it. When I fail to do even one thing on my carefully prepared plan for a day (which happens once in a while, of course), sometimes I lose motivation and skip more subsequent items. This leads to spending less time on things I want to do and more time on procrastination that day. It happens seldom enough not to be a real issue (and it doesn’t mean I fail to do anything – just less than usual or hoped for), but it is a bit frustrating. He suggested a pretty clever (and obvious in hindsight) way to deal with this. His idea is to have a separate music playlist „for work” and train my brain to associate that particular music with focused work. That way I would have another nudge to do particular kind of stuff.

2023-04-29

2023-04-22

  • 19:02 UTC (new) (history) 2023-04-22 Org mode clock table for the last week . . . . mbork – Some time ago I mentioned that I started doing “weekly reviews” of what I have done last week and what I am going in the next week. One part of my weekly reviews is checking how much time I spent doing various things last week. Of course, Org mode clock tables are an excellent tool for that. There is one caveat, though. What does “a week” mean? It turns out that it is not obvious at all. The main problem here is the :wstart parameter, telling what day is the first day of the week.

2023-04-15

  • 18:42 UTC (new) (history) 2023-04-15 Downcasing word at point in the whole buffer . . . . mbork – Some time ago, one of the members of the Emacs-humanities mailing list mentioned a very specific problem. He wants to be able to replace all occurrences of the word at point with its upercase (or lowercase) variant. This is one of these things that can be solved with a bit of custom Elisp. Being a big fan of writing small (or sometimes not so small) helper functions to make editing easier, I offered to do a bit of coding to accomplish this task, and here it is. Being a teacher, I’d like to provide at least a short explanation, too. (Most of you probably know that I spent quite some time in 2021 doing exactly this – coding Elisp and explaining it – and the result is my book Hacking your way around in Emacs, designed as a “next step” after Robert J. Chassell’s excellent An introduction to programming in Emacs Lisp. Check out Chassell’s book if you are interested in learning Elisp, and then my book if you ant to go further!)

2023-04-13

2023-04-09

  • 04:39 UTC (new) (history) 2023-04-09 Easter 2023 . . . . mbork – So, another year has passed since I last wrote about Easter. It would seem that it’s monotonous, but it isn’t – life brings so many unexpected things that I am surprised every day. I am extremely thankful for quite a few things in the last year, but all this pales in comparison to one Event – Christ’s resurrection. If not for that, everything else – every kind person I encountered, every nice surprise I had, every achievement, every pleasure – all that would mean nothing. If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ cannot have been raised either, and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is without substance, and so is your faith (1 Corinthians 15:14). Good thing is that it’s all true! All that is not to say that last year was without issues. With war going on in neighboring country and plenty of personal problems I can’t say that life is ideal. But it does not negate the fact that I have a lot to be thankful for! Christ has risen, rejoice! And as the tradition goes, be assured that I will offer a decade of Rosary for all my readers here.

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