How to keep notes the Emacs way
Once upon a time, Matt told me about someone who had been keeping notes in Emacs for years, and now has his own personal wiki/knowledge base in Emacs. I was a Vim user then, but the idea interested me.
Fast-forward four or five years. I’m now at a new job with lots of processes and things to remember, only those things aren’t written anywhere. Or, if they are, they are spread out all over their Intranet and, in come cases, woefully out of date to how things are. But I have Emacs — and EmacsMuse, which has a wiki-like markup, links to wiki-words, etc. And it exports to HTML out of the box and to PDF if you have LaTeX installed. I quickly started pasting all the emails people have sent me about procedures, methods, links, etc. In just a few days, the number of documents I have is impressive.