Notes on Emacs Org mode
As part of my quest to master Emacs, which is sort of a sub-quest on the way toward learning more about Lisp, I have spent a fair amount of time discovering various corners of the Emacs world. One of those is the famous "Org mode" that is used for a wide variety of organizational tasks within the editor—and not just Emacs, but for Vim and others too. Org mode can be used for to-do lists, notes with interconnections between them, literate programming, web sites, and more. Now my quests are growing quests of their own and digging into Org mode is one of those.
It is hard to visit the land of Emacs without encountering multiple glowing accounts of using Org mode for all manner of different tasks. I had been exposed to it a bit over the years via a look at Beancount, the text-based accounting system that accommodates Org markup, by its mention in a discussion of making Emacs more popular in 2020, and in editing an article about to-do list management later that year. Until recently, though, I had not really dipped my own toes in Org.