Emacs

I genuinely dislike email, yet it’s a necessary part of working and communicating these days. I suppose there is occasional value found in the community of certain mailing lists, but generally the way email is used today is simply more of a distraction or interruption. A while back Steve Losh described how to setup Mutt the way he likes. It was an interesting read because he was detailed, technical and clearly prefers very customizable tools. I agree with him, and although I’ve long since abandonded Mutt I was motivated to describe my version of powerful, customizable, terminal based email management. ...

I spend a decent amount of time in org-mode, using Emacs + iTerm2 on a Macbook Air. I fixed a recent annoyance I encountered when using Emacs org-mode to track time for a project. Org-mode has a handy time tracking feature and as the manual points out both C-S-<up/down> S-M-<up/down> can be used to call various functions for adjusting recorded time. In particular I wanted to use org-timestamp-down to add some time for a CLOCK item I had forgotten to start before a Skype call. ...