In my org-mode setup, initially I used to preview the whole buffer all the time. However, as my files grew bigger the waiting time for this has become prohibitively expensive. Since then I have set it up to continuously recompile the file in the background each time the file is saved. It works pretty well since instead of spawning a new async process on each save, I have a single background process which recomiles in sync and thus needs not reload all the emacs on each recompile....

I wrote up a small chrome extension for org-protocol. Comments, improvements and positive criticism are all welcome. The code is available at https://github.com/sprig/org-capture-extension The extension can be installed from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/org-capture/kkkjlfejijcjgjllecmnejhogpbcigdc Enjoy!

I recently started using helm-mode again and find ir pretty good, except for a quirk: It does not allow to tag a heading in org with more than one tag. The code uses the 24.4 advice system, but porting it back shouldn’t be a problem. I noticed that when providing tags in a capture via the template mechanism, helm is still used. But I’ll fix that at a later point....