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December 29, 2025 EmacsConf 2025: Open session - Participants
Participants
https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/open-mic
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December 29, 2025 EmacsConf 2025 Q&A: Zettelkasten for regular Emacs hackers - Christian Tietze
Christian Tietze (he)
This is the Q&A for the talk at .
00:49 Q: What do you use for the fancy animations?
03:30 Q: Are you not a fan of using *, **, *** headings in org-mode?
07:13 Q: Can you use org files and all its features inside Denote?
07:49 Q: Where or how do you like to capture fleeting notes?
11:29 Q: Zettelkasten feels like a very "cagey" approach to note-taking and knowledge management. Doesn't it restrict one to think in certain ways rather than what feels natural to someone?
15:07 Q: How does denote compare to org-roam?
18:25 Q: I noticed that the wikipedia link you wrote was typed wrongly - and it got me thinking about how to deal with broken links at scale? Do you have any thoughts on this? What about archival?
21:20 Comment: When I completely re-worked my config some two years ago, I also tried out some of these packages for making notes in Emacs...
24:34 Q: How Zettelkasten is useful for highly mathematical STEM academic fields like computer science or engineering fields?
39:40 Q: In your experience, would you say that you re-use most of your notes?
44:15 Q: How are notes structured and accessed when the notes grow from 10K to 100K notes?
48:55 Q: I would be very interested in your thought on this video by Westenberg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjSWwmg-JRM (Why I Deleted My Second Brain: A Journey Back to Real Thinking)
57:59 Q: Is there a danger that with the Zettelkasten process, that the process gets a bit in the way of the content?
01:03:20 Q: How do you navigate looking at all posts with certain tags
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December 29, 2025 EmacsConf 2025: An introduction to the Emacs Reader - Divyá
Divyá
https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/reader
00:00 An introduction to the Emacs reader
00:44 Yet another document viewer in Emacs?
02:05 Architecture of Emacs Reader
06:00 A word on dynamic modules
07:39 Features of Emacs Reader
07:56 Memory efficiency
11:18 Performance and speed
14:23 Scanned PDFs
17:08 System-level multi-threading
23:44 Native Emacs integrations
25:10 (Naive) dark mode
26:01 Challenges and further improvements
29:14 What Emacs can learn?
32:32 Contributing to the development
33:35 Acknowledgements
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December 29, 2025 EmacsConf 2025 Q&A: Blee-LCNT: An Emacs-centered content production and self-publication framewor...
Mohsen BANAN (he/him)
This is the Q&A for the talk at https://toobnix.org/videos/watch/254af947-bb60-493b-bb72-dea055703c9e .
00:22 Q: Where do we find all the inputs and outputs you mentioned?
04:48 Making presentations easier to distribute
05:42 Reveal output
08:15 GitHub organizations
12:24 Challenge of DIY model and recipes
13:57 Dblocks everywhere
17:09 Q: What changes have you seen in the culture while developing all these things like libre-halal system and now blee-lcnt?
19:11 Intellectual property rights
23:43 Q: Given that large AI companies are openly stealing IP and copyright, thereby eroding the authority of such law (and eroding truth itself as well), can you see a future where IP & copyright flaw become untenable and what sort of onwards effect might that have?
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December 29, 2025 EmacsConf 2025: Questions and answers to help you fly with Hyperbole - Bob Weiner
Bob Weiner
https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/hyperboleqa
00:15 Q: I'm excited to know opinion on current state of using MCP and AI for PKM and PIEs. Since they do carry lot of burden out of us and ease lot of process. How does hyperbole stand with coming days?
02:54 Q: As a normal user who codes and takes notes, I really want to deep-dive and learn Hyperbole, but always end up winding back up to embark and org-mode being the better system. For me hyperbole looks like over-engineered (or over-configured) system which other individual packages do well. And outside emacs there is no system supporting hyperbole nor any usability.
05:13 Implicit buttons
06:43 Getting help
09:12 Explicit buttons
09:42 Homepage
11:41 Q: I've been using "activities.el" and "Bufferlo" to save dedicated workspaces (open buffers, window positions) in tabs and frames for tasks/projects across Emacs sessions. Could I do something similar with Hyperbole?
14:07 Q: How well do Hyperbole and org-mode work together? Is there any kind of integration?
16:16 Hywiki
22:06 Q: Are there any talks from this year's emacsconf that discussed things that would work well with Hyperbole?
26:05 Interesting, but the many different link formats makes reading and analyzing my notes much harder and less usable outside Emacs.
28:51 Koutliner
33:02 Org tables
34:43 Selecting between delimiters
36:43 Ace-window
38:01 Dired
38:42 Controlling windows or frames
40:04 Documentation
40:41 Videos
42:09 Manual
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December 29, 2025 EmacsConf 2025: corfu+yasnippet: Easier than I thought - Pedro A. Aranda Gutiérrez
Pedro A. Aranda Gutiérrez (he, him)
https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/completion
00:00 Introduction
00:52 Motivation
03:29 My requirements
04:37 Basic setup: corfu + eglot
05:02 Looking at completion-at-point functions
06:44 Making my own (basic) c-a-p-f for yasnippet: the completion properties
08:10 Getting yas-kw-list right: What do I want?
09:18 Diving in yasnippet
11:33 Fine-tuning: adding cape
13:03 Automatic snippet expansion
14:05 Themes
14:58 My check-list
15:48 Takeaways
16:58 Requests (to whom it may concern)
18:55 Q: Did you try yasnippet-capf? If so, what did you miss from it that this approach has? Thanks! https://github.com/elken/yasnippet-capf
19:40 A small demo
24:51 Q: Do special characters in yasnippets work well too? example
32:32 Emacs Lisp
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December 29, 2025 EmacsConf 2025: GNU Emacs Greader (Gnamù Reader) mode is the best Emacs mode in existence - Yuval...
Yuval Langer (he/him)
https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/greader
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December 29, 2025 EmacsConf 2025 Q&A: Bookclub tapas - Maddie Sullivan
Maddie Sullivan (she/her)
This is the Q&A for the talk at .
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December 29, 2025 EmacsConf 2025 Q&A: An introduction to the Emacs Reader - Divyá
Divyá
This is the Q&A for the talk at .
00:00 Q: Is there scope for integrating the C library into Emacs itself with muPDF becoming an optional dependency?
00:59 Q: The dynamic modules sound great, and it's amazing they're there since 2017. Why is it so slow to take off, do you think? Is there prior art with them?
03:02 Q: How is pdf-tools difficult to install? I install it using the built in package manager.
04:41 Q: What tool(s) did you use to measure the memory usage between the three packages?
05:49 Q: How is the conversion between ELisp and the foreign language type system done? For example when interfacing with a C++ library that makes heavy use of C++ object system and templates?
08:17 Q: Can one look at pdf metadata with emacs-reader? Can annotations be added? Does it understand forms? Can it handle encrypted pdfs?
09:28 Q: How can I associate ODT files to open with emacs-reader?
10:26 Q: If a pdf file is open in emacs-reader and I regenerate the pdf with some changes, does emacs-reader actually refresh the pdf on its own or do I have to reload the pdf?
11:49 Q: What are the challenges with integrating with SyncTeX and AucTeX? This would be great to see as pdf-tools handles this well.
12:35 Q: Will you be giving another talk on the architecture you went over? A deep-dive there would be awesome.
12:59 Q: Is there search functionality? Something like isearch and occur?
13:30 Q: Does dynamic module prevent customization that Elisp usually provide? (Advices, Hooks, etc).
15:31 Q: Do you usually create an Elisp shim from the FFI and then use them with Elisp code?
16:44 Q: Is searching on the roadmap? Or is it already available as a feature?
17:48 Q: Will there be occur-like searching?
18:28 Q: What is your timing expectation for it to appear on ELPA?
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December 29, 2025 EmacsConf 2025: Gardening in Emacs: A Windows user's tale of tending, tweaking, and triumph - Mar...
Marco Bresciani
https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/gardening
00:05 Introduction
00:39 What is a digital garden?
02:11 Why a digital garden?
03:39 How to digital garden?
04:57 How to make Emacs portable, on Windows
08:18 My Emacs customization
10:36 PlantUML and Japanese
14:50 My Org Mode publishing configuration
16:04 The final result
17:03 Thank you for listening
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