can a hook remove itself?

Is there a better way to do it? (I want music to start sometimes when I clock into a task in org with a timer, but I don't want it to happen every time, just when I use my special task clock in thing)

New blog post #Journelly vs #emacs: Why Not Both?

https://xenodium.com/journelly-vs-emacs-why-not-both #orgmode #org #plaintext #privacy #journaling #microblogging

Now merged into #melpa! My home brew #orgmode solution for creating invoices for clients. It leverages the built in clock table functionality to create a nested list of client->invoice items

https://codeberg.org/trevdev/org-invoice-table

[Atelier] Mardi 1er avril, à partir de 17h30, se déroule l'Atelier Emacs francophone !
C'est : en visio +sans inscription +juste en cliquant +tous niveaux (débutant à expert) +tous sujets #Emacs (général à pointu). Détails à https://emacs-doctor.com #atelieremacs #ateliersemacs
Donc : #orgmode, #Denote, shell, LISP, BibLaTeX, litterate programing, balisage (Markdown, groff, Wiki, HTML,...), Dired, courriel, GIT,...entre autres !
Le tout à base du #format texte, dans son éditeur&OS (ou l'inverse).

Did you know that you can use your own elisp functions to do calculations in org-mode tables? Just create a function that gets values as input (e.g., in a code block above the table), and then in the table formula simply call it and pass the values to it. It can also be used in vectorised way similar to how R works.

```
#+TBLFM: $4=myfunc($2 $3)
```

If you're using #Microsoft #OneNote, you will face disadvantages when you don't switch to #Windows11 soon:

You are forced to "One Note on Windows" which requires a #Microsoft365 account. If you want to keep your previous computer/OS, your synchronization speed gets reduced just to punish your disobedience: https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/03/24/microsoft-will-intentionally-slow-onenote-for-windows-10-so-you-ditch-it-faster/

For anything that requires a certain amount of privacy/security, for anything long-term (avoiding #lockin effects), OneNote was a bad idea in the first place.

People who started with the original OneNote already faced data loss when MS forced them into the then mediocre cloud version in 2018: https://karl-voit.at/2018/04/21/end-of-OneNote/

My recommendation: re-evaluate your requirements and switch to a much better long-term alternative, such as #Emacs #Orgmode & not yet another hip lock-in monster like #Obsidian, #Evernote or other closed source #cloud solutions: https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_note-taking_software

What's you favorite #markdown editor?1 And if you don't like MD, what do you prefer to use? #orgmode ? #asciidoctor ?

1: Please, no Obsidian in the replies ;)

EDIT: I'm surprised at how many people use #orgmode what software do you use? Emacs? Logseq?

Periodic ask: what is the good way to do free software #fitness tracking at the moment? Let's say I don't trust hyperscalers with my heartbeat. I could knock up some radar charts in #OrgMode (that definitely won't turn into a 6 hour yak shave) but I value my time and also want to support projects doing it right

My #iOS app Journelly's first showcase

https://www.macobserver.com/tips/round-ups/journelly-journal-app-ios

#Emacs #Orgmode: does anybody know of an interactive function that asks for a file name and then provides an interactive drill-down search (helm?) for a heading.

When confirmed, it inserts an org-link like [[id:the-id-property][the heading title]]

I was using helm-org-contacts which is now unmaintained and ChatGPT was not able to deliver such a function at all.

in #orgmode, when i use at-tags in headings they get highlighted a certain way, and when i use :colon_separated_tags: they get highlighted another way. also at-tags support hyphens, where in the colon-separated ones i have to use snake_case. do these at-tags actually mean anything? i haven't found anything in the docs.

I've created a new Emacs package that makes it easy to add RSS feeds to Org publish projects. Works like the :auto-sitemap options

https://git.sr.ht/~taingram/org-publish-rss

Thinking about @sacha's ADHD sketchnotes, and org-pomodoro https://github.com/marcinkoziej/org-pomodoro/blob/master/org-pomodoro.el

And thinking what I need is something pomodoro like, but just asks me every ~25 mins or so if I'm still working on the task I've clocked into, and if I don't say yes, it clocks me out. (just wondering how annoying that focus grabbing will work and how annoying it might be), but I think that is what I want, maybe?

So I can work on something for as long as I like. I'd like to be reminded to take a break to stretch every 45-90 minutes. I'm starting to wonder if I can do this by just configuring org-pomodoro.

I think the big problem is that when I fall apart, I stop looking at emacs, I will look at a bit of paper (physical tokens are good, but even they are ignorable). Is there a way I can make emacs be a speedbump before I use the rest of the computer? One that demands I clock into something, or at least review what clues I've left for my self before?

I think something that let me capture things as I go, to make a list of things would be good and then a bit of a vector database to create some links between the things I come across and have it come up when I'm working on something (oh, how I loved the rememberance agent idea)

After three years of never updating my personal website, I have deployed yet another version of my personal website.

Behold: https://trevdev.ca/

Built with #emacs #orgmode and as copy-left as I could make it.

Blog articles coming maybe.

Journelly now recognizes hashtags and makes them actionable for searching.

Join the beta https://xenodium.com/journelly-open-for-beta

I’ve been reading and watching videos about #Emacs and #orgmode for about six months. I think I’m finally almost ready to launch the program for the first time.

Added more Journelly rendering improvements.

All journal entries are offline and powered by #plaintext #org markup. Join the beta https://xenodium.com/journelly-open-for-beta