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How I solved Org Mode's biggest mobile and collaboration problems

bashbunni (she/her) - https://bashbunni.dev/ has all of my links + email

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Schedule for SaturdaySaturdaySat 9:00- 9:10 Saturday opening remarkssat-openSat 9:10- 9:30 The Emacs Planning Habits of a Questionably Effective Person: My 40-year journey of planning with Emacs, Org Mode, paper journals, etc.planningSat 9:50-10:10 Emacslisten: Controlling Emacs by voicelistenSat 10:30-11:00 Multi-dimensional information processing with Emacs and Emacspeak: a blind man's perspectiveemacspeakSat 11:10-11:30 ltx-talk: Accessible presentations with ox-beamerltx-talkSat 1:00- 1:20 Plots with ROOTs and SHAPEs: Resilient data visualization with Emacs, Org and gnuplotplotsSat 1:40- 2:00 Personal task management under stress (with Org mode)tasksSat 2:20- 2:30 How I solved Org Mode's biggest mobile and collaboration problemsmobileSat 2:50- 3:10 Hyperbole, My Dear WatsonhyperboleSat 3:30- 3:50 Hyperbole Koutliner: The Best Autonumbered, Hyperlinking Outliner for EmacskoutlinerSat 4:10- 4:30 Close the writing accountability gap with EmacswritingSat 4:50- 5:00 Saturday closing remarks / open sessionsat-closeSat 10:30-11:30 [Panel] Improving the Emacs Community: Onboarding, Participation, and GrowthcommunitySat 1:00- 1:15 Emacs as my portable user space across operating platformsportableSat 1:35- 1:55 Emacs everywhere: A fun romp through esoteric operating systemsosSat 2:15- 2:25 My Space Cadet Deck - an Android Stream Deck replacement with deep Emacs integrationcadetSat 2:45- 3:00 El Remoto: browse any GitHub repos without cloning themremotoSat 3:20- 3:40 æmacs: having a hoot with a guile emacsguileSat 4:00- 4:20 Plain text presentations in GNU Emacs with ffsffs9 AM EST10 AM EST11 AM EST12 PM EST1 PM EST2 PM EST3 PM EST4 PM EST5 PM EST

Format: 10-min talk ; Q&A: BigBlueButton conference room https://media.emacsconf.org/2026/current/bbb-mobile.html
Etherpad: https://pad.emacsconf.org/2026-mobile
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Saturday, Dec 12 2026, ~2:20 PM - 2:30 PM EST (US/Eastern)
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Description

Productivity apps are one of the first project ideas that come to mind for new developers. Clearly, staying organized is a problem that a lot of people have and feel that what’s out there isn’t quite meeting their needs. On top of that, many existing task management systems require a lot of upkeep. Since first trying org mode in 2024, I knew immediately that this would bring value to my workflow. It’s quick to make, modify, label, and find tasks and org agenda takes care of making it all cohesive with smaller scoped task views so you’re not overwhelmed. It was all great until the first hurdle arose: how do I share the status of these things with my teammates? Then the next: how can I update tasks on the go from my phone? For a while I mostly ignored those issues and kept using it anyway. This month I decided to tackle those problems head on and see if there is truly a viable way to make org mode seamlessly integrate into more team-based or remote workflows. Here’s what I found.

About the speaker:

bashbunni is a software developer and content creator. She shares her live process of learning and tinkering with new programs on Twitch and YouTube. Her community is a space for thoughtful discussion on overlooked ethical and privacy issues in tech, reminding her audience to hold companies accountable and keep a healthy amount of skepticism. She uses her platforms to support open source projects and help increase adoption of those tools. Recently, she has created content to bring attention to Doom Emacs, NixOS, and Elm. She shares her software development learning journey to encourage others in their pursuits.

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