I just read the transcript of
@nprofile1q... and
@nprofile1q...'s conversation with John Wiegley about his
#Emacs #OrgMode setup that he uses to organize everything in his life.
Wiegley is living in the future.
He has over forty thousand entries spread throughout more than three thousand org files, around 28000 TODO items with about a thousand of them open. It's too much data to even look at so he has some very sophisticated ways of dealing with it. His org agenda views will surface random selections of entries for him to review; upon review with a few keystrokes he can schedule them to work or schedule them for further review in the future. He decided on a fairly strict set of conventions for how org entries should be written, including that the leading verb must be chosen from a controlled vocabulary and wrote a Haskell program to parse his org files and put them into a Postgres database which he can query. The database has vector search to find semantically similar items even if they are worded differently. He also has a local LLM backing an instance of OpenClaw that can query this database, access his org files and talk to him on Discord and Whatsapp, letting him find relevant entries from his org files by messaging the agent from his phone.
It's amazing, maybe not something I'd want for myself, but definitely a fascinating read!
https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/07/chatting-with-john-wiegley-about-personal-information-management-and-karthik-chikmagalur/
