pim layer

Table of Contents

• Description
• Install
  • 1. Download layer
  • 2. IMPORTANT Customize / Configure
  • 3. Load layer
• Usage
  • Email
  • Journal
    • Global Bindings
    • Major Mode Bindings
    • Calendar Mode Bindings
  • Blogging
    • How do I even?

Description

This layer is for personal information management (pim) and sets up the following:

• notmuch (Email)
• org (Notes / Workflow)
• org-octopress (Blog)
• org-journal (Journal)

Install

1. Download layer

Add this repository to your spacemacs private folder as a submodule under the folder pim:

git submodule -b master add https://github.com/admiralakber/myOS-spacemacs-pim ~/.emacs.d/private/pim

2. IMPORTANT Customize / Configure

Edit =config.el= with your details.

3. Load layer

To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to add pim to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.

Usage

Email

This layer provides configuration for emacs to view / compose emails using notmuch-emacs. Sending, receiving and organising of these emails are done independently. Setting up in this manner provides fantastic speed, flexibility, and robustness.

For an example setup of email back end end see github.com/admiralakber/myOS-email

Journal

Org mode journaling is configured in org-pim and utilizes org-journal. Spacemacs like bindings are based off borgnix’s layer.

Prettier defaults (in my opinion) are configured in =config.el=.

You have no excuse, WRITE!

Global Bindings

Key Binding	Description
SPC a j j	new journal entry
SPC a j s	search all journal for a string

Major Mode Bindings

Key Binding	Description
SPC m j j	new journal entry
SPC m j n	next journal file	-
SPC m j p	previous journal file
SPC m j s	search the current journal file

Calendar Mode Bindings

Key Binding	Description
J j	new journal entry
J v	view an entry in a new buffer
J V	view an entry but do not switch to it
J n	go to next day with journal entries
J p	go to previous day with journal entries
J S	search in all entries of all time
J w	search in all entries of the current week
J m	search in all entries of the current month
J y	search in all entries of the current year

Blogging

Going from an org file to a blog post is made easy with org-octopress using jekyll to generate the blog.

How do I even?

If you don’t already have a blog, the easiest way to get started is with Github Pages as it automatically compiles your page with jekyll. There are plenty of tutorials on how to do this, the easiest way could even be looking at other peoples <username>.github.io repositories. This repository will be your org-octopress-directory-top variable defined in =config.el=.

Keep in mind, jekyll is very flexible. If you’re looking at other peoples github.io repositories, or following tutorials they might not be using org files to generate _post files. Once you’re at this point, see the org-octopress documentation or this github.io for an example.