Personal Productivity

The freedesktop project, arguably the most important Linux organization you’ve never heard of, has (among many other noble deeds) done an admirable job clearing up the mess of local cache and config files in one’s home directory. But how does one override their defaults, if this requires setting environment variables globally, for all processes, and outside an explicit shell environment?

George H. Heilmeier, director of DARPA (the advanced-technology research agency of the US Defense Department) from 1975 to 1977, formulated a set of questions to help evaluate research proposals.

Disclaimer: I use Emacs, but I am not deeply into various emacs cultish uses. I just write books and about everything else in it. (Except mail.)

That being said, I am currently dealing with Markdown and friends, and so I came across Org Mode.