I said in my recent productivity post that I use Emacs as my task manager, but that’s not all I use it for. I take notes in it for the board at my daughter’s dance studio, and I’m digging into using it more. I’m now on the lookout for Emacs content to enhance my use of the tool so this is my entry in the December Emacs blog carnival and the people I’m currently following as someone new to Emacs.

First is Sacha Chua and their excellent round ups of Emacs news that come to my RSS feed weekly. I regularly find many topics to dig into as I build Emacs more into my life.

Next I’d have to say Karl Voit and his long series on using Org Mode which I’m only part way through. I’m trying to read an article a day and take notes on it. Right out of the gate in his first article I like the theme of reducing complexity. Don’t grab every feature you hear about, make sure they solve a problem and that you’re reading to have the problem solved in that way.

Finally, Peter Prevos has a great series on Emacs for writers. I even bought the book to make sure I directly support his work. I’ll continue to take notes in Obsidian and don’t see that changing but I could see moving book length writing into Emacs depending on how the export works and what I get with the Obsidian Longform plugin.

I’m just starting out in my Emacs journey, even though it’s been at least 6 months. I simply started with Org Mode and kept it simple. Only now that I’m comfortable with Org Mode am I going to dig deeper into moving more of my workflows into Emacs.