#+title:      Emacs
#+date:       [2023-05-26 ven. 04:59]
#+filetags:   :emacs:org:workflow:zettelkasten:
#+identifier: 20230526T045952

Emacs is amazing. Reading its info pages does feel like homework, but as an autistic person I precisely need explicit instructions on how to use the software.

Emacs lets me do:

- task lists,
- spreadsheets,
- blog posts,
- assignments,
- personal documents,

and export them to:

- PDF,
- Markdown,
- ODT,
- /etc/.

It also lets me insert academic citations by setting the BibLaTeX and CSL engines according to the file format in which I want to export.

For example I write many documents intending them to be blog posts, only to figure out that they're long rants about social media, abuse, and my own life, but I can keep them as documents and eventually print them to show them to my partner. Without that my blog would probably be in a much worse state, or drafts would hang around in a remote database that's hard to export and could honestly be deleted overnight (even if Matt and his team are great people).

It also works with local files which is super important to me because I've had and still have an unreliable internet connection, and I just don't want to have to care about it. With Emacs I can work at a 16KB/s capped bandwidth for a few days without even realizing it. (This is a lie, I need to run Javascript code every few hours.)