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I've been using Org Mode ever since I saw that Literate DevOps presentation... and I'm not even in DevOps at all. It's just that using emacs and Org Mode creates the most usable documentation for recording what I've figured out and done that I've ever seen.

I'm sort of surprised it's not more popular because the productivity gains are pretty damn amazing.

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Could you share how you use it exactly?

I use it more or less exactly how it was described here:

http://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html

The only real additions relate to internal tools which we developed for our work (I do sensor development and integration).

I've been using org-mode for years, including w/ Babel and this guy blew me out of the water. Amazing.

That is really, really nice. Thank you for sharing that link.

I recently experimented with using org-babel blocks with AWS Athena queries in them (and evaluating them into :result blocks with C-c C-c) instead of putting the queries into my shell history.

The nice thing about this setup is I can keep notes really easily alongside the queries, and the output is right there in the :results blocks. It's kind of like a jupyter / ipython notebook, but for _any command_.

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