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Traditionally, Operating Systems (OS) have had folders as an organization entity for collection of files. Documents, Videos, Photos and Downloads folders cover most of the use-cases. However, if you have used it for some length of time, you'll realize it is not enough. For instance, this blog post is a collection of text, images, videos and web URLs. And while working on this idea, I need all of these at my disposal. Or atleast an easy way to access all these related resources. That's when it clicked to me why some people are gung-ho about org-mode ! Often, it's better to organize files around ideas rather than file types. For a beginner, org-mode might seem daunting. I myself ignored it completely till few days back. Don't worry about learning the syntax in depth. Even if you are not using the advanced features, there's lot to be gained. Here's complete list of types of links you can store in a text file and access it using (org-open-at-point) . ( No...

Node view (left) and Group view (right)     3 Body Problem is a sci-fi series on Netflix. Though this post is more about the analyzing process in GNU Emacs than about the show storyline. This is a work-in-progress . The entry point to the package is M-x graph-brain . Design Decisions Leaf title will be displayed at the center of the circle. If it has an image, it will be displayed at the bottom. Group title is displayed at the top. Information gets fuzzier at a certain density. Around 16 leaves and three levels - root, groups and leaves - seems to be a comfortable threshold. org-roam is being used for the database. Presently, only ID, title, filetags and  link fields are being used. IMAGE is managed as an org-mode property.   The Shape We don't want to restrict the number of characters in the story. Yet we don't want to manually decide their placement on the screen. So we need a shape which can be easily placed based on geometrical calculations. The two simplest opt...