Every once in a while I get super fascinated by Emacs and Org-mode.
Please help me out the rabbit hole.
https://www.mauromotion.com/posts/2025-04-16-doom-emacs-orgmode/
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TIL there is a org-agenda-todo-yestarday its like org-agenda-todo but the time of change will be yesterday. Now I can complete the habits next day the morning 
#emacs #orgagenda #orgmode
I use my-org-agenda-done function from @sacha config (thanks, by the way) and now I modified to complete yesterday if there is an `arg`
I wrote this program three years ago. I'm trying to think of a way to do something similar with Emacs and Org mode.
hyperreal's Gitea instancedaily-event-loggerdaily-event-logger
And just a day later, here's a git repo with more philosophy than good code.
I think the philosophy part is more important personally, the code we can fix later.
https://git.bajsicki.com/phil/gptel-org-tools
TL;DR: Emacs (and its ecosystem) makes the whole vectorization/ RAG/ training stuff entirely redundant for this application.
Yes, this code fails still... a bunch, especially given the current lack of guardrails. But the improvement I've seen in the last few days makes me cautiously believe that with enough safeguards and a motivating enough system prompt, an active assistant may be possible.
Image attached isn't nearly as good as I've seen, but it's an off-hand example that demonstrates it working.
The only thing missing for me to be happy with this is one of those organic, grass-fed LLM models whose existence isn't predicated on theft.
#emacs #orgmode #gptel #orgql
RE: https://fed.bajsicki.com/notes/a6jw3n155z
![A screen capture of an interaction with an LLM Assistant living in Emacs. Transcript:
@user Hello.
@assistant
Hello! I'm a large language model running in Emacs. How can I assist you today?
@user Find all the instances of cats in my journal, and summarize.
@assistant
[tool call instruction and return data omitted for privacy]
In your journal, there are several instances of mentions related to cats, mostly in casual contexts. Here's a summary of the findings:
1. A detailed dream entry (2023-08-16) where cats appear as omens or symbols of distress.
2. Multiple references to the family cat (2024-04-13, 2024-04-25, 2024-04-27, 2024-06-01, 2024-06-02, 2024-07-04, etc.) in daily journal entries where you're feeding it, often when you're tired or returning home.
3. A mention in the context of work (2024-10-13) about [redacted] sick cat needing a vet visit.
4. Some minor mentions in the context of gaming or entertainment (Shadow Slave, Factorio, etc.), where "cat" appears in game titles or as part of content you're consuming.
The cats primarily appear in the context of daily routines and family life, particularly regarding pet care and household tasks. There are no deep or symbolic references to cats in other contexts, such as dreams or personal reflections outside of the mentioned instances.
Would you like me to explore any specific aspect of these entries in more detail?
Here ends the transcript.](https://cdn.bolha.us/bolhaprod/cache/media_attachments/files/114/339/086/521/850/193/small/729a64f54955320f.webp "A screen capture of an interaction with an LLM Assistant living in Emacs. Transcript:
@user Hello.
@assistant
Hello! I'm a large language model running in Emacs. How can I assist you today?
@user Find all the instances of cats in my journal, and summarize.
@assistant
[tool call instruction and return data omitted for privacy]
In your journal, there are several instances of mentions related to cats, mostly in casual contexts. Here's a summary of the findings:
1. A detailed dream entry (2023-08-16) where cats appear as omens or symbols of distress.
2. Multiple references to the family cat (2024-04-13, 2024-04-25, 2024-04-27, 2024-06-01, 2024-06-02, 2024-07-04, etc.) in daily journal entries where you're feeding it, often when you're tired or returning home.
3. A mention in the context of work (2024-10-13) about [redacted] sick cat needing a vet visit.
4. Some minor mentions in the context of gaming or entertainment (Shadow Slave, Factorio, etc.), where \"cat\" appears in game titles or as part of content you're consuming.
The cats primarily appear in the context of daily routines and family life, particularly regarding pet care and household tasks. There are no deep or symbolic references to cats in other contexts, such as dreams or personal reflections outside of the mentioned instances.
Would you like me to explore any specific aspect of these entries in more detail?
Here ends the transcript.")
Hi folks - I've made a macOS utility (pre-release) named Scrim to support org-protocol:// with Emacs and I'm looking for BETA testers. Read more about it in the link. Especially if you are a Captee user, I invite you to be a tester to try this utility out.
http://yummymelon.com/devnull/making-an-app-looking-for-beta-testers.html
yummymelon.comMaking an App, Looking for Beta Testers Nearly two years back I wrote a utility called Captee that uses the native macOS Share Menu ( ) to share a link or text clipping in either Markdown or Org format. The idea was that any macOS...
So... I strongly disagree with LLMs (mostly with the marketing and the training data issue), but I found a use-case for myself that they may actually be 'alright' at.
I organize my life in #Emacs #orgmode . It's great.
But over the years, my notes and journals and everything have become so large, that I don't really have a grasp of all the bits and pieces that I have logged.
So I started using org-ql recently, which works great for a lot of cases, but not all.
Naturally, I wanted more consolidation between the results, and better filtering, as well as a more general, broad view of the topics I wanted to look up in my notes.
So I started writing some tooling for #gptel, to allow LLMs to call tools within Emacs, and leverage existing packages to do just that.
It's in its inception, and works only 20-25% of the time (because the LLM needs to write the queries in the first place), but it works reasonably well even with smaller models (Mistral Small 24B seems to do alright with 16k context, using llama.cpp).
In general:
- It kinda works, when it wants to.
- The main failure point at the moment is that the LLM isn't able to consistently produce proper syntax for org-ql queries.
- The context window sucks, because I have years of journals and some queries unexpectedly explode, leading to the model going stupid.
So far it's been able to:
- retrieve journal entries
- summarize them
- provide insights on habits (e.g. exercise, sleep quality, eating times)
- track specific people across my journal and summarize interactions, sentiment, important events
It doesn't sound like a lot, but these are things which would take me more time to do in the next year than I already spent on setting this up.
And I don't need to do anything to my existing notes. It just reads from them as they are, no RAG, no preprocessing, no fuss.
At the same time, this is only part of my plan. Next:
1. Add proper org-agenda searches (such that the LLM can access information about tasks done/ planned)
2. Add e-mail access (via mu4e, so it can find all my emails from people/ businesses and add them as context to my questions)
3. Add org-roam searches (to add more specific context to questions - currently I'm basing this entire project around my journal, which isn't ideal)
4. Build tooling for updating information about people in my people.org file (currently I do this manually and while there's a bunch of stuff, I would love if it was more up to date with my journal, as an additional context resource)
For now, this is neat, and I think there's potential in this as a private, self-hosted personal assistant. Not ideal, not smart by any means (god it's really really not smart), but with sufficient guardrails, it can speed some of my daily/ weekly tasks up. Considerably.
So yeah. I'm actually pretty happy with this, so far.
PS. #orgql because org-ql doesn't show as an existing tag.
Who wants to add #Journelly to the tool page of #orgdown?
https://xenodium.com/journelly-open-for-beta
https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown/-/blob/master/doc/Tool-Support.org
Or even assess its od support?
xenodium.comJournelly open for betaI've reignited Journelly, my note-taking/journaling project. The iOS app is coming along nicely.
I've been using Journelly daily. The best I can desc...
New post about #orgmode #orgbabel #emacs and #literateprogramming
Is there another way to do this?
Thanks in advance
www.cnoceda.comA little trick in my literary programmingOver the years, my mind doesn’t work as well as it used to, and I need reminders for everything—even to know whether I wrote a program using literate programming or not.
memEx, a personal knowledge base inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode
bubbletea.dev giteamemExA structured personal knowledge base, inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode
Überzeugte Benutzer:innen von #Emacs #orgmode können bei dem Video von @CT3003COOL drunter einen Kommentar hinterlassen, sich eventuell mal in einem anderen Video mit Org zu probieren. (Ich habe kein Account, um YouTube-Kommentare zu hinterlassen.)
Bei diesem Zielpublikum eine interessante Herausforderung, denn sowas wie lock-in Effekte, Migrationsaufwand, Möglichkeiten, an den Rohdaten selbst mitzufrickeln (extern generieren/auswerten, ...) kam gar nicht vor.
Wichtiger scheinen da optische Gimmicks wie Titelbilder, Emoticons und Gifs. Wer das nachvollziehen kann, darf sich bitte bei mir zwecks ein paar Fragen melden.
Endlich Leben im Griff 
| #Anytype statt #Notion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKvDdsa6oyY
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Zed's dead, baby, Zed's dead.
Anyway, I wonder if Zed can do all the things I do with #Emacs: It's my window manager, my terminal, my email client, my PIM system, sometimes also my web browser and my Mastodon client.
It could be my chopper, if I wanted!
Of course, if you do have long-time plans for your personal #knowledgemanagement, you should not use proprietary tools like #Obsidian, #OneNote, #Evernote and alike.
You also should think of switching to a much better (learnability, portability/compatibility, typobility, logic, featureset) markup syntax like #orgdown which is used in #Emacs #Orgmode (among other tools).
But if you start with Org-mode, you need to know the right way of doing it, as so many web pages recommend. Here's my take:
#UOMF: The Right Way to Use #OrgMode
https://karl-voit.at/2021/08/30/the-org-mode-way/
ad syntax/Markdown/Orgdown/#LML: https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/
A specific blog post about the #lockin effects of Obsidian and Co (despite using some tool-specific flavor of MD) is in the making. (Please don't start a religious discussion here.)
public voit - Web-page of Karl Voit · UOMF: The Right Way to Use Org ModeUOMF: The Right Way to Use Org Mode
Confused by the #Emacs key binding concepts? You might be interested in reading:
#UOMF: My Emacs Key Binding Strategy
https://karl-voit.at/2018/07/08/emacs-key-bindings/
public voit - Web-page of Karl Voit · UOMF: My Emacs Key Binding StrategyUOMF: My Emacs Key Binding Strategy
After reading this article I've decided to trim down a bit on my org config and throw out everything that hides any characters as I found this behaviour often annoying anyway.
https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish
iA · Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting FetishNotes on a revolution in slow motion.
For folks who are interested, I've been working on a macOS utility (pre-release) that acts as a proxy for Org Protocol URL requests. This utility is intended to complement another utility called Captee (http://yummymelon.com/captee/) which can send an Org Protocol request from the Share Menu. I'm currently looking for testers. If you're interested, please DM me your email address. Thanks!
#Emacs #OrgMode
yummymelon.comCaptee for macOSCaptee is an app that shares a link in either Markdown or Org syntax straight from the macOS Share menu.
From @jtr's lovely post:
"Journalley blows this mental challenge away. It invites me to take notes and just notes. It’s the opposite of a chore. “Go ahead,” it winks at me, “spill the beans. Snap some pictures. We’ll work on the details later.” Suddenly, I’m free to let my mind go."
#irreal and @bbatsov about #Emacs startup time: https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12903
I, too, am totally convinced that it really doesn't matter if it is one or sixty seconds.
However, if your bootup time is much longer than mine (15-30s once a week) then you most probably have room for improvement (if you want). Consistent use of #usepackage with dependencies and "defer" did help on my side.
My config has 7724 lines of #elisp (19851 including #orgmode comments): https://github.com/novoid/dot-emacs/blob/master/config.org
irreal.orgEmacs Startup Time | Irreal