Org-Mode All The Things

[makz]

I hate leaving my journal off on a negative note, so even though I don't have any real updates since the last post, I have to say something to inject some positivity. (I have to! I am compelled! Am I feeling better yet? No!! I simply must Toxic Positivity my way out of this or I'm going to get hung up on the fact that I said some negative words on the internet somewhere and spiral out, ok??)

So. Emacs Org-Mode. I am going back in time to the 2000s, along with the rest of the world, spinning Y2K clear plastic spiderwebs behind me as I try to TODO list my way into a sensible method of existing on this planet.

Other people drink. Other people do hard drugs. I get really into customizing my computer's terminal emulator and learn Emacs keybindings and possibly end up with a repetitive stress injury. (Wanna take bets on how long I last before going Evil Mode? By the way, I don't know how to use vi.)

If nothing that I've said so far makes sense to you, FIRST OFF, you don't need to poke around my previous posts to get an idea for why I'm depressed; I am an American and it is the Everything — the everything that's on eternal loop in the background of my country; the nostalgia wars fueling the nostalgia economy — and I am going to nostalgia code my way out of the nostalgia paper bag; just watch me. And am I depressed? No, this is mania.

SECOND OFF, Emacs is a text editor. It's also a development environment for a programming language called LISP. It's written in itself! It is used by authors. It's used by coders. It's used by people doing this Zettelkasten notebook thing. It gives you a job. It is a job. (Warning: the album art on the song I just posted a link to includes a topless woman in the background. I had never noticed! a coworker pointed it out to me today. Am I properly queer if I don't notice a pretty lady's breasts? A question for the ages.)

THIRD OFF, Org-Mode is a todo-list format which, when run through the LISP interpreter powering Emacs, allows you to set statuses on your todo items in a way that makes sense intuitively but also just stores all of its state information in plaintext, rather than having some database somewhere (on your device? in the cloud?) holding onto all that state data. It's nifty! It's neat! It's easy to read with your human eyes!

FOURTH OFF, BEHOLD, A SHOPPING LIST

#+TITLE: Shopping Lists for Fresh and Healthy Instant Pot Cookbook Recipes

* Week 1
- Boiled Eggs           p23
- Peanut Butter Bars    p28
- Mashed Sweet Potatoes p59
- Thai C. Carrot Soup   p73
- Sweet Potato Curry    p134
- Thai Salmon Curry     p147
- Coconut Pudding       p180

** Oats/Grains
  - [ ] 1 cup       Quick-Cooking Oats
  - [ ] 1 cup       Red Lentils

** Spices/Syrups/Oils
  - [ ] 1/2 cup     Maple Syrup
  - [ ] 5 tbsp      Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
  - [ ] 1 tsp       Minced Thyme
  - [ ] 2/3 tsp     Minced Fresh Rosemary
  - [ ] 2 cloves    Minced Garlic
  - [ ] 4 tbsp      Curry Powder
  - [ ] 4 tbsp      Minced Fresh Ginger
  - [ ] 7 tbsp      Chopped Fresh Cilantro
  - [ ] 1/4 cup     Basil

** Vegetables
  - [ ] 5 lbs       Sweet Potatoes
  - [ ] 1.5x        Yellow Onions
  - [ ] 1.25 lbs    Carrots
  - [ ] 2 cup       Chopped Kale, stems removed
  - [ ] 1/2x        Red Onion
  - [ ] 1x          Red Bell Pepper

** Other
  - [ ] 2/3 cup     Dried Cranberries
  - [ ] 1 cup       Pumpkin Seeds
  - [ ] 31 oz       Full-Fat Coconut Milk
  - [ ] 1 lb        Salmon

[...]

You load that baby into Org-Mode and store it on your WebDAV server or wherever and then interpret it on your phone through Orgzly Revised and BAM! A grocery list you can write in plaintext that then is check-off-able on a phone app!! Modern technology at its greatest!!

This is the stuff that's getting me through the day. Aw, yeah, let's plan to eat home-cooked meals. WITH COMPUTER. COMPUTER RUNNING TEXT EDITOR FROM 1970 AND TODO FRAMEWORK FROM 2003!! TAKE THAT, CLAUDE.AI.

I'm seriously losing it, lmao.

Anyway, computers! Todo Lists! Text editors!! I have no plans to learn LISP!!!!