I am using the built-in project.el in Emacs to find files in various git-backed projects. But I also have a shared folder of blog post drafts with Sascha at zettelkasten.de that does not have any version ...

It's as simple as modify dired-actual-switches in dired-mode-hook.



Minimum setup,



(defvar my-dired-new-file-first-dirs
'("bt/finished/$"
"bt/torrents?/$"
"documents?/$"
"music/$"

In today's stream, we'll try out Prot's new note-taking package called Denote and see if we can come up with a comparable workflow to what you might get from a package like Org Roam. I really like the principles that Prot chose for this package so I'm looking…

I was going through my git commit history in my public dotfiles repository and noticed that prior to using straight.el I’ve, like many, used an inbuilt solution for managing packages, called package.el. However, there was one thing that bothered me, and one…

After publishing the last post I thought why won’t I post such things here occasionally? I have a few pieces of Emacs Lisp in my configuration that I wrote for myself some time ago to fix some annoyances or improve a certain workflow.

Intro This wasn’t always the case, but I find that now emacs is ignoring some files when I do find-file. The most annoying example is .git not appearing, although I can navigate through it if I type it fully. This seems to happen whether I am using my vertico…