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mpages is an available package. | |
Status: Available from melpa -- [Install] | |
Version: 20140915.1338 | |
Summary: An Emacs buffer for quickly writing your Morning Pages | |
A tool to quickly open a daily diary buffer. | |
Morning Pages are a concept named by Julia Cameron in her book | |
"The Artist's Way". They are defined by the activity of waking up every | |
day and writing three pages of anything or everything that might be on | |
your mind. The purpose is to express one's most urgent thoughts in a slightly | |
more coherent manner than they tend to occur in the realm of pure thought. | |
Unlike a "diary" they are meant to be a dumping ground, not a saving place. | |
Think it, write it, clear your mind, and move on. Just doing that is enough. | |
In my experience of doing it daily I fret less about silly things and work | |
through my issues more productively. I recommend it highly. | |
Opening up Emacs and running `M-x mpages' will open up an empty buffer | |
pointed at a txt file for today. As you type it will keep track of the time | |
spent and the number of words typed. The default, 750 words approximates | |
three written pages. A competent typist, just letting his or her thoughts | |
flow should be able to finish between 15 and 20 minutes. I find the effort | |
required is absolutely worth the time spent. Enough so that I made this | |
package. `M-x customize' has a few mpages related options under Text->mpages. |
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