Importing Kindle Clippings in Emacs

I wrote ebook-notes.el, an Emacs Lisp package, to streamline the process of importing highlights and notes from an Amazon Kindle’s “My Clippings.txt” file directly into Org mode files. It automatically handles the association of notes with their corresponding highlights and prevents the import of duplicate entries. To make life interesting, I decided to try using a LLM to “help”. I used Google’s Gemimi 2.5 Flash model. Don’t judge me. This was research! ...

September 4, 2025 · 8 min · Stewart V. Wright

Emacs on Windows: Getting tramp to work

Using Windows is .. a challenge. Running tramp in emacs, especially so.

April 24, 2023 · 3 min · Stewart V. Wright

Using Mastodon for blog comments

I’ve decided to use the fediverse for blog comments, rather than disqus. Here’s how I did it.

April 24, 2023 · 4 min · Stewart V. Wright

Emacs site-lisp fix for MacOS

Emacs For MacOS (installed via Homebrew) doesn’t use /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp. Let’s fix that.

September 26, 2022 · 2 min · Stewart V. Wright

PSA - re-encode your MOV files

Today’s public service announcement… ...

September 26, 2022 · 1 min · Stewart V. Wright

Copying images from EPUBs

I was reading a book this week and I wanted to use one of the images in a presentation. ...

August 25, 2022 · 2 min · Stewart V. Wright

Book Week 2022

You’re saying it wrong. Or maybe not. ...

August 24, 2022 · 1 min · Stewart V. Wright

Creating ebooks

Creating ebooks in Emacs with orgmode is easy

August 16, 2022 · 3 min · Stewart V. Wright

Reading books in Emacs

My Emacs configuration to allow reading EPUBs

August 15, 2022 · 4 min · Stewart V. Wright

My first machine learning model

I can remember the first time that I built a machine learning model - I used it to solve a real problem. ...

August 5, 2022 · 3 min · Stewart V. Wright