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Doom Emacs and Transient

2025-05-18 Sun - I've declared Emacs bankruptcy yet again and this time I decided to try out Doom Emacs. I'm pretty happy with how consistent everything is so far. Another new thing I'm trying is transient. I have created hydra in the past to help with some workflows but I'm liking the simplicity of transient much better.

I take a lot of notes using org-mode which should not be a surprise for most Emacs users and my system is fairly simple. I just have an Inbox file where I capture notes and top level headings are dates. 

* <2025-05-18 Sun>
** Meeting with XYZ                                       :project-x:planning:
- Do A, then B, then C
- Follow up with UVW

This makes it very easy to capture things without thinking about where notes need to go in the moment. I have found a lot of value in reviewing notes though and tagging, and refiling, them is how I process them. Occasionally I have to create new todo items when reviewing notes as well.

The transient I created to help with my review looks like this 

(transient-define-prefix my/org-review ()
  "A prefix for commonly used commands during an Inbox review"
  [["Navigation"
    ("n"
     "Forward Element"
     (lambda ()
       (interactive)
       (org-forward-element))
     :transient t)
     
    ("p"
     "Backward Element"
     (lambda ()
       (interactive)
       (org-backward-element))
     :transient t)
     
    ("u"
     "Up Element"
     (lambda ()
       (interactive)
       (org-up-element))
     :transient t)
     
    ("d"
     "Down Element"
     (lambda ()
       (interactive)
       (org-down-element))
     :transient t)
     
    ("t"
     "Set tags"
     (lambda ()
       (interactive)
       (org-set-tags-command)))]
       
   ["Projects"
    ("x"
     "X"
     my/org-x-review)]]
     
  [:class transient-row
          ("q"
           "Quit"
           (lambda ()
             (interactive)
             (message "Finished review"))
           :transient nil)])

my/org-x-review doesn't have much at the moment, just an option to refile to a file named x.org. I

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