Organize Your Life with Org Mode

From Kristoffer Balintona:

Again, thank you for the video. One thing that I think myself and some of your viewers would like clarification on is the distinction from visual-fill-column (from the melpa package) and visual-fill-mode (built-in) as well as their interaction. Based on reading some documentation, it seems that visual-fill-column-mode widens the right margin and can center the window. On the other hand. visual-fill-mode inserts line breaks automatically once you reach the window’s margin. Thus, you can use them both independently but also in conjunction - which is what you have done.

I also am confused about whether or not this will result in hard or soft wrapping. There are some cases where I don’t want to change the actual contents of the page but would like to see it wrapped in the buffer. I don’t know if visual-fill-column + visual-line does this.

From Konstantin Petrov:

Couple of questions about org:

1. I use tags in org-mode. Can you tell how to set/edit tags using ivy/counsel tooling to search and select?
2. Could you cover capturing (org-capture) and creating nicer menus for capture templates selection?

Run org-agenda to see possible agenda views.

(setq org-directory "~/Projects/Code/emacs-from-scratch/OrgFiles")
(setq org-agenda-files '("Tasks.org" "Birthdays.org" "Habits.org"))

;; If you only want to see the agenda for today
;; (setq org-agenda-span 'day)

(setq org-agenda-start-with-log-mode t)
(setq org-log-done 'time)
(setq org-log-into-drawer t)

• org-schedule
• org-deadline
• org-time-stamp
• Repeated Tasks

(setq org-todo-keywords
  '((sequence "TODO(t)" "NEXT(n)" "|" "DONE(d!)")
    (sequence "BACKLOG(b)" "PLAN(p)" "READY(r)" "ACTIVE(a)" "REVIEW(v)" "WAIT(w@/!)" "HOLD(h)" "|" "COMPLETED(c)" "CANC(k@)")))

Org Mode Manual: Custom Agenda Views

;; Configure custom agenda views
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
  '(("d" "Dashboard"
     ((agenda "" ((org-deadline-warning-days 7)))
      (todo "NEXT"
        ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Next Tasks")))
      (tags-todo "agenda/ACTIVE" ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Active Projects")))))

    ("n" "Next Tasks"
     ((todo "NEXT"
        ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Next Tasks")))))


    ("W" "Work Tasks" tags-todo "+work")

    ;; Low-effort next actions
    ("e" tags-todo "+TODO=\"NEXT\"+Effort<15&+Effort>0"
     ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Low Effort Tasks")
      (org-agenda-max-todos 20)
      (org-agenda-files org-agenda-files)))

    ("w" "Workflow Status"
     ((todo "WAIT"
            ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Waiting on External")
             (org-agenda-files org-agenda-files)))
      (todo "REVIEW"
            ((org-agenda-overriding-header "In Review")
             (org-agenda-files org-agenda-files)))
      (todo "PLAN"
            ((org-agenda-overriding-header "In Planning")
             (org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels nil)
             (org-agenda-files org-agenda-files)))
      (todo "BACKLOG"
            ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Project Backlog")
             (org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels nil)
             (org-agenda-files org-agenda-files)))
      (todo "READY"
            ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Ready for Work")
             (org-agenda-files org-agenda-files)))
      (todo "ACTIVE"
            ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Active Projects")
             (org-agenda-files org-agenda-files)))
      (todo "COMPLETED"
            ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Completed Projects")
             (org-agenda-files org-agenda-files)))
      (todo "CANC"
            ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Cancelled Projects")
             (org-agenda-files org-agenda-files)))))))

(setq org-refile-targets
      '(("Archive.org" :maxlevel . 1)))

;; Save Org buffers after refiling!
(advice-add 'org-refile :after 'org-save-all-org-buffers)

• Tasks
• Meeting notes
• Table entries
• Journal entries

(defun dw/read-file-as-string (path)
  (with-temp-buffer
    (insert-file-contents path)
    (buffer-string)))

(setq org-capture-templates
  `(("t" "Tasks / Projects")
    ("tt" "Task" entry (file+olp "~/Projects/Code/emacs-from-scratch/OrgFiles/Tasks.org" "Inbox")
         "* TODO %?\n  %U\n  %a\n  %i" :empty-lines 1)
    ("ts" "Clocked Entry Subtask" entry (clock)
         "* TODO %?\n  %U\n  %a\n  %i" :empty-lines 1)

    ("j" "Journal Entries")
    ("jj" "Journal" entry
         (file+olp+datetree "~/Projects/Code/emacs-from-scratch/OrgFiles/Journal.org")
         "\n* %<%I:%M %p> - Journal :journal:\n\n%?\n\n"
         ;; ,(dw/read-file-as-string "~/Notes/Templates/Daily.org")
         :clock-in :clock-resume
         :empty-lines 1)
    ("jm" "Meeting" entry
         (file+olp+datetree "~/Projects/Code/emacs-from-scratch/OrgFiles/Journal.org")
         "* %<%I:%M %p> - %a :meetings:\n\n%?\n\n"
         :clock-in :clock-resume
         :empty-lines 1)

    ("w" "Workflows")
    ("we" "Checking Email" entry (file+olp+datetree ,(dw/get-todays-journal-file-name))
         "* Checking Email :email:\n\n%?" :clock-in :clock-resume :empty-lines 1)

    ("m" "Metrics Capture")
    ("mw" "Weight" table-line (file+headline "~/Projects/Code/emacs-from-scratch/OrgFiles/Metrics.org" "Weight")
     "| %U | %^{Weight} | %^{Notes} |" :kill-buffer t)))

Bindings straight to templates

(define-key global-map (kbd "C-c j")
  (lambda () (interactive) (org-capture nil "j")))

Org Mode Manual: Tracking Your Habits

(require 'org-habit)
(add-to-list 'org-modules 'org-habit)
(setq org-habit-graph-column 60)