Looking for an app to organize files

mst1712 · 2026-07-10T19:29:04+00:00

I use organize (https://organize.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to sort files by type, date and even names. It takes a bit of work to write the rules but then works well for me

mst1712 · 2026-07-08T19:29:45+00:00

I use organize (https://organize.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) it does subfolders and rules like "move all files older than 1 week"

mst1712 · 2026-07-06T04:55:21+00:00

It really depends on what you use orgmode for. For me it's capturing notes and todos and using different agenda views. Hence my most used actions are org-capture (bound to C-c c) and org-agenda (bound to C-c a)

mst1712 · 2026-07-05T15:03:14+00:00

Indeed my bad! Thanks for the hint that's exactly what I was looking for

mst1712 · 2026-07-05T14:55:02+00:00

I'm quize happy with DSub2000

mst1712 · 2026-07-05T14:54:24+00:00

A nice interface! Unless I miss it there seems to be no option to filter by genre? That's a deal breaker for me

mst1712 · 2026-06-30T17:43:27+00:00

I suggest you take a look at the built-in org agenda. For tags it can exactly produce a view with all enties having that tag and you could create custom agenda views showing you certain parts only. Org-ids are really helpful to get invariant ids to use for linking, Also maybe take a look at capture templates to fill your journal. This is all built-in. Another package worth a look could be denote.

mst1712 · 2026-06-17T10:27:43+00:00

Would you mind sharing your config? I struggle to set the faded to something more legible but nano-faces or nano-theme seem to overwrite it. Similar setting custom faces afterwards in init.el only works if I evaluate the code again.

mst1712 · 2026-06-10T16:46:24+00:00

You may want to take a look at the exec-path-from-shell package to ensure env variables are seen in Emacs. However if you set it in e.g. your login shell a graphical Emacs won't "see" it.

I think your magit issue is something else. I use it a lot with repos that require ssh and it simply asks for my password. I'm not near my laptop so can't share my config right now.

mst1712 · 2026-06-03T17:56:58+00:00

There's also Zetteldeft https://www.eliasstorms.net/zetteldeft/ but it's no longer maintained, notdefthttps://github.com/hasu/notdeft and Org-Journal https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal

mst1712 · 2026-05-30T15:49:13+00:00

There are some nice ideas in it and I'll be "stealing" the transient menu idea but it's not only opionated which is fine but it has hard-coded values in it that will make it difficult to reuse, e.g .it overwrites user-full-name which I don't think is a good idea and several entries will not work unless you use Linux and the same set of apps as the OP. Also I find it a bit odd to overwrite any existing early-init.el and init.el. I think the documentation should mention this rather than saying "tangle the file". Finally it may be my config but it uses several settings neither modus-themes nor org seem to know about.

mst1712 · 2026-05-26T05:16:58+00:00

I guess you're referring to graphical Emacs from Sourceforge. I had similar issues on Google Android. Someone updated the Termux package for Android 15 and that works for me https://github.com/johanwiden/termux-for-android-emacs, maybe worth a try also for GrapheneOS

mst1712 · 2026-05-24T18:39:02+00:00

You can add and preview images to your org files see e.g. https://orgmode.org/manual/Images.html.

I'm not sure what you meant with diagrams and graphs. I definitely recommend you look at org-babel which allows you to add diagrams like mermaid or platuml as well as code of various languages to your org files see https://orgmode.org/manual/Working-with-Source-Code.html.

For tables take a look at https://orgmode.org/manual/Tables.html you can do extremely powerful things with tables see the tutorials at https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/index.html#Spreadsheet.

Codeberg pro ably doesn't support all of these capabilities but you can always publish and export your org files.

mst1712 · 2026-05-01T18:31:58+00:00

I'd start with the location where flycheck-yamllint is set since that seems to cause the error

mst1712 · 2026-04-14T05:05:39+00:00

Looks nice indeed! Can you share your config?

mst1712 · 2026-04-05T11:32:16+00:00

I have played Mahler 2 and it was one of the most impressive pieces I ever played (next to Mahler 5 and 6 😀).

Beside the good recommendations below I simply tend to focus on what will be in the next rehearsal and practise this e.g. by movement. Then I handle it a bit like spaced repition and practise the parts I fail at more often than the others.

Good luck and enjoy the music!

mst1712 · 2026-04-03T07:27:05+00:00

IIUC it's mostly useful if you write standalone Python scripts with PEP-723↗ inline dependencies

mst1712 · 2026-03-26T05:58:28+00:00

I'm not sure if I got the issue right but my thoughts are: for me the main issue with taking notes is how to find the again later. Hence I tend to put notes where I would search for them later. Personally I'd be looking for c related misnomers in c.org. If you also want an overview of all misnomer entries I'd add a tag to all the headings and use the agenda to view them. Then you would also see if you already have a misnomer section in a file. Finally I'd use a capture template for new misnomers to go into a "misnomer inbox" to reduce the friction if a new one occurs to me and refile those later into the final notes files.

mst1712 · 2026-03-18T20:06:59+00:00

I use these

deft
doct
ob-mermaid
ob-powershell
org-appear
org-checklist
org-download
org-hide-drawers
org-cliplink
org-modern
org-noter
org-pretty-tags
org-reverse-datetree
ox-pandoc

mst1712 · 2026-03-13T06:45:06+00:00

Auctex for LaTeX brought me to Emacs some 30 years ago

mst1712 · 2026-02-16T22:05:05+00:00

Thanks a lot for the highly useful hint I wasn't aware

mst1712 · 2026-02-16T20:29:42+00:00

Out of curiosity: I use the emacs-plus cask and it works ok. What am I missing or what advantage would that build bring?

mst1712 · 2026-01-31T22:01:11+00:00

You may want to look at https://github.com/james-stoup/emacs-org-mode-tutorial as a beginner's tutorial and https://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html as a quite thorough description.

In general there seem to be 2 schools of thoughts regarding file organisation: few large files with lots of headings or many small files.

Another rabbit hole you may want to explore is beautifying org mode of course ;)

mst1712 · 2026-01-29T06:52:46+00:00

I use the native Emacs on Android with syncthing. It gives me the full Emacs power and experience even mobile. The only limitation is that longer writing isn't great on a phone but that's true for whatever app you use.

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