On September 11 2019, there was a community-driven Emacs Org mode event in San Francisco called "All Things Org Mode". Luckily, it got recorded and published. The four speakers were:

I spent many hours with this one hour and 45 minute video. I took notes, did research on things I did not know so far and learned really a lot from it.

If you are interested in Org mode, you want to watch it. Even if you're not an Emacs person, you want to see at least the writing scientific paper part of John in order to get an impression how awesome the Emacs environment could be as a universal tool for generating digital things.

Here are my notes on most important findings, in case you want to go through them. For most readers, my notes are probably not relevant at all:

John Wiegley

1:11 Most of the time being in Agenda

he's got only a handful of agenda items on a day

each heading has an :ID: generated (see explanations in Q&A)

generated (see explanations in Q&A) 1:35 keyword PROJECT = larger tasks with optional subtasks

2:10 refiling to projects only wherever the corresponding file is he is not thinking in files, he thinks in projects

2:45 M-m is capture shortcut re-bound back-to-indentation for this purpose task: into a special project "Inbox" in todo.org he is refiling from there

is capture shortcut 4:25 a button on his iwatch records speech, transforms into text, sends it to iCloud manual command imports it to inbox (see Q&A)

4:50 he usually captures ~30 items/day

6:20 On Saturdays or Sundays: he's got time for reviewing tasks of projects

7:10 org-sort-all bring headings in order probably 1x/month going through all files + review "Do I still care about this?"

bring headings in order keyword DEFERRED: I don't want to delete the idea but I also don want to see it in my lists

7:40 keyword SOMEDAY : is even less important than DEFERRED these are rainy day tasks , maybe 6-12 months from now if he gets incredible rich, these could be done

: is even less important than DEFERRED keyword TODO: will be scheduled on weekends for next week

8:45 he gets done ~3-4 tasks/day or even only 10% of the assigned tasks a day → over-commitment

9:00 "If I over-commit enough, my under-delivery produces what I want my future self to be doing"

9:30 Picking a few jucy things & schedule for the next days

9:40 scheduling: maybe not doing that day but bringing it back to my mind

9:50 Pair programming is the most effective way of getting things done

is the most effective way of getting things done 10:20 C-c a a → agenda "Review tasks" as habit visible: probably scheduled with +14d with average delay of 3-5 days

→ agenda 10:40 if agenda is down to 7 or less, he might get done 1-2 on a day

10:55 everything undone a day will be re-scheduled for future 1-2 tasks a day is considered a success

11:30 question: SCHEDULED vs. DEADLINE DEADLINE adds "D02" in agenda DEADLINE: "I can't move the date" → commitment for or depending on someone else

12:35 Priorities Prio A: "if not done on scheduled day, something bad happens or somebody is angry with me" Prio B: "I want to do it that day. If not done, doesn't matter." Prio C: "totally OK if not done on that day"

13:10 f = re-schedule +1d to future he does bulk-re-schedule all the time usually he accumulates Mo-Fr sometimes he declares Org bankruptcy → this is a cycle bankruptcy: re-scheduling most tasks or re-considering priorities Org becomes effective again after going through tasks and limit todos.

= re-schedule +1d to future 14:35 C=c a m : agenda with first todo of each project this is a "next action" overview for most cases 14:55 this is not always true because he does not always order the tasks properly it's always too long "this presentation only shows 1 of my 5 org files" each Org mode file agenda entry has its own background color

: agenda with first todo of each project 15:35 tag HOT for projects: C-a H → agenda with HOT projects HOT projects: the live projects he is working on 16:05: C=a h → next action agenda for HOT projects this is the most valuable list of actions

→ agenda with HOT projects 16:30 C-c C-c → quickly adding note to a task note is between heading and SCHEDULED/PROPERTIES

→ quickly adding note to a task 17:50 he used more visual todo apps before

18:10 Clocking in: "Don't do this for personal stuff" to give himself a sense of how much time he spent, even though this is not basis of any money calculation

18:50 his meter is in the mode line: red, as long as he is behind the usual working hours of the day see Q&A for details

20:30 explanation about habits and their roots

22:20 Q&A begins

22:20 explanation on capture tool with iPhone app "Drafts"

25:20 GNUS capture

26:00 he had capture for Firefox using AppleScript which stopped working due to Firefox change

26:55 explanation on UUIDs notes stored in notes.org (27:40) → IDs only used to link to headings (probably mentioned somewhere else: he could think of stopping UUIDs because he's not using them that often but they are generated automatically, so he doesn't care.)

28:40 Statistics: he is using Org mode since 2007 12440 tasks handled in 4380 days (NOTE: mine are 23595 since 2011 :-O)

29:14 his working hour meter external script org2tc works with ledger time-clock files

keywords so far: TODO, STARTED, DELEGATED, PROJECT, DONE

clocking statistics report

32:55 summarizing from multiple org files 33:35 his list of 6 org files surprisingly short list of Org mode files

35:00 "Do you use journal?" he did, but he stopped a while ago

35:45 Tags are being used for context :Errand: → requires a trip also for giving this talk he uses tags to filter the agenda :Net: → requires Internet connection resource :Call: → requires phone resource :Reply: → he needs to give an answer in contrast of doing something tags for people

37:15 auto-contexting / RET → checks for host, time, … during reviews he tags all tasks (NOTE: could not find anything about this magic)

38:20 question about visual noise in Org mode

40:45 how he is using babel

41:28 he is using org-beamer

44:40 jira-integration: similar to my own approach for previous company

47:00 abandoned org workflows

48:45 devices involved desktop at home and notebook script pushme syncs data Nix helps system settings Second Emacs is running just for IRC he doesn't want to interfere IRC with other windows

51:10 Coq → he'd spend his time with it if he'd become rich

52:40 how to start with Org mode

55:50 org-extend-today-until

56:50 End

Tikhon Jelvis

This is not as detailed as above and mainly refers to my own research afterwards:

reveal exports to PDF? https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js#pdf-export



Presentations can be exported to PDF via a special print stylesheet. This feature requires that you use Google Chrome or Chromium and to be serving the presentation from a web server. Here's an example of an exported presentation that's been uploaded to SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/hakimel/revealjs-300. [...]

full-screen fill with image examples with specific slide-deck I could not re-produce his slides from his Git repo



Basically, it has to look like this:

** [[./img/sat-graf.png]]

open questions Do I need to scale image file manually? How to reproduce his results?

Slides without title are empty headings.

Jeff Trull

This is even less detailed since for me, babel was nothing new. Nevertheless, there were some new things to me as well:

1:07:10 Begin

1:09:15 :preamble "..." may contain code! not visible in export but it is executed

may contain code! 1:10:30 input from lists and tables

1:11:30 noweb code snippets

1:13:00 C-c C-v v → show code that's executed for debugging

John Kitchin

Well, this is an eye-opener for any researcher writing scientific papers. Especially if you do like reproducible research, you're going to love it.

1:18:00 start

~30 papers written in Org mode

invented tools to make it easier to publish papers using Org mode

agenda scimax https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax ox-manuscript 1:19:30 adapt Org→LaTeX→PDF process to meet template requirements of publishers 1:20:07 scrolling through the set of available templates org-ref https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref 1:21:10 created for citations 1:22:00 C-c ] → interactive citing multiple citations: comma is added automatically custom links with colors 1:22:35 hover with tooltip with more details 1:22:44 clicking on link shows hydra menu with actions for citations 1:23:00 emailing a BibTeX entry + PDF opens PDF editing the bib entry color highlighting turns red if it is not a key within the bibtex file 1:24:20 references to sections C-u C-u C-c ] → insert label for a section creating links to section labels + different color highlighting 1:25:30 Emacs crash ;-) Glad that this also happens (rarely) to him as well 1:25:10 he mentions necessary caching for efficient handling of thousands of entries 1:26:40 F12 hydra for many things he's demoing jumping to his journal of the day 1:28:00 context hover info for references 1:28:10 inline python for figures 1:29:00 docstring for python commands 1:29:30 publishers demand EPS instead of PNG also creating standalone bibliography embedding all bibtex entries into final LaTeX document ob-ipython see above scimax-editmarks 1:31:30 non-standard markup to generate PDF notes indication of deleted words 1:32:50 tracking changes 1:33:10 accept proposed changed by shortcut 1:33:35 generate list of marks

1:34:10 start of Q&A

1:34:25 journal publishers and their accepted formats 1:34:45 C-c C-e menu visible with customized export formats 1:36:00 he generates the LaTeX file containing the EPS links and the inline bibliography 1:36:45 showing the final PDF with the todo list of the marks + marks in the document 1:38:20 showing the final LaTeX file for submission 1:39:40 searching in his Org mode database to look for a specific manuscript 1:41:00 showing reproducible research sources for figures in the supporting information file 1:42:00 showing the PDF results for the journal article and the supporting information file 1:42:20 embedding data files in PDF file from within Org mode

1:43:34 ob-ipython extensions by him reference to his YouTube channel

extensions by him 1:45:00 end

Thanks

Thanks to all the speakers and the organizers!