LifeLab · nonlinear workspace

Summon a page — live transclusion

The same summon line, bigger payload: accept a page result and it lands as a live region — a window into that page, not a copy. Blocks inside render native and editable; a block added inside is homed on the summoned page, so you author emnlp-2026/orals-tue without ever leaving emnlp-2026. Prior art: org-transclusion, Roam/Logseq {{embed}}, federated wiki.

A window, not a copy

The region is a page-ref in the order overlay — same mechanism as a block summon. The blocks belong to the summoned page; this surface just looks in.

Add writes home

The ghost add-line inside the region creates the block on the summoned page — primary_page is the session, visible here instantly.

Create & transclude

No matching page? The summon line's create row makes the page and transcludes it in one ↵ — new session pages never require leaving the conference.

One level deep

A transclusion inside a transclusion renders as a plain [[link]]. No recursion, no cycles, no visual soup.

1SUMMON A PAGE

Same line, page results carry a ▸ — ↵ transcludes

In summon mode (Mod+K s) pages already rank in the results. Before, ↵ on a page inserted a collapsed card; now ↵ transcludes the page as a live region. → still scopes into its headlines to summon a single block; ⌥↵ still jumps to the page itself.

[emnlp-2026]· pageday week month· pages Mod+K jjump Mod+K xrun·context
conferences
emnlp-2026 ⌄
:conference: :nlp:nov 8–12 · suzhou
*Logistics
flight lands sat 19:40 · hotel is the one next to the venue, checkin after 15:00
⌕ orals summon · Mod+K s → add
pages3 of 3
▸
[[emnlp-2026/orals-tue]]
:talks:·6 blocksedited 2h ago
↵ transclude · → headlines
▸
[[emnlp-2026/orals-mon]]
:talks:·4 blocksedited yesterday
*
Best-paper orals announced — journal/2026-07-02
:nlp:5 days ago
↵transclude page →scope into headlines ⌥↵jump to page esccancel
What ↵ writes: one page-ref appended to this surface's order overlay — the same append-only overlay a block summon uses. Nothing on orals-tue changes; it doesn't know it's being watched.
2THE LIVE REGION

Boundary = a 2px rule + one header line, nothing else

The region reads as a window, not a card: a quiet left rule, a header line with the fold toggle and the page link, and native blocks inside — same star, same tags, fully editable (edits write back to their home). The header's [[link]] is the jump to the source page.

[emnlp-2026]· pageday week month· pages Mod+K jjump Mod+K xrun·context
conferences
emnlp-2026 ⌄
:conference: :nlp:nov 8–12 · suzhou
*Logistics
flight lands sat 19:40 · hotel is the one next to the venue, checkin after 15:00
[-] emnlp-2026/orals-tue 6 blocks · :talks: transcluded
*Making Large Language Models Efficient Dense Retrievers:paper:
tldr prune MLP layers, keep attention layers with no major loss. seems in conflict with other models.
▸:PROPERTIES:ARXIV: arxiv.org/pdf/2512.20612:END:
*Measuring human contribution in AI assisted content generation:paper:
no ground truth today — they measure the proportion of information in AI-assisted output attributable to the human input. elegant: − log p(y) vs − log p(y|x).
*LVLMs and humans ground differently in referential communication:paper:
grounding = establishing shared understanding; evaluated via director/matcher card games.
⋯ 3 more blocks
+ Click to add text...
*People to find:todo:
ask the dense-retriever authors about the MLP-pruning conflict
✓ rule + header line

One quiet 2px rule spans the region; the header carries fold, link, count. Flat — consistent with "blocks are never cards".

#+begin_transclude fence

Org-literal delimiters top and bottom. Honest, but two lines of chrome per region reads noisy once you have three sessions.

panel card

bg-panel fill + border, like a code block. Fences the blocks off from your own captures — exactly what summon avoids.

3CREATE & TRANSCLUDE

No match → the create row makes the page and summons it in one ↵

Typing a path that doesn't exist surfaces new page — create & transclude as the first row. One ↵: the page exists, the region is on your surface, the cursor is on its add line. This is how you spin up session pages mid-conference without ever leaving the conference page.

[emnlp-2026]· pageday week month· pages Mod+K jjump Mod+K xrun·context
conferences
emnlp-2026 ⌄
:conference: :nlp:nov 8–12 · suzhou
⌕ emnlp-2026/posters-wed summon · Mod+K s → add
no matching page
+
new page [[emnlp-2026/posters-wed]] — create & transclude
inherits :conference: :nlp: from here (editable)
↵
↵create page + transclude ⌥↵create + jump instead
…and immediately after ↵:
[-] emnlp-2026/posters-wed 0 blocks · new transcluded
* first block on posters-wed…
Created emnlp-2026/posters-wed.transcluded here · Mod+K s to summon into it
4ADD WRITES HOME

The add line inside the region homes the block on the summoned page

This is the whole value of the container: where you type decides primary_page. Commit inside the region → the block belongs to orals-tue and shows up here through the window. Commit outside → it's a native conference block. The echo area states it plainly so it's never ambiguous. Summon works inside the region too — pull an existing paper block onto the session page.

[emnlp-2026]· pageday week month· pages Mod+K jjump Mod+K xrun·context
conferences
emnlp-2026 ⌄
:conference: :nlp:nov 8–12 · suzhou
[-] emnlp-2026/orals-tue 6 blocks · :talks: transcluded
*LVLMs and humans ground differently in referential communication:paper:
grounding = establishing shared understanding; evaluated via director/matcher card games.
* Style-aware reranker — don't be misled by style
*People to find:todo:
ask the dense-retriever authors about the MLP-pruning conflict
inside a transcluded region — C-c …
↵commit-blocknew block, homed on orals-tue — appended to its page_order
Mod+K ssummon-heresummon an existing block onto orals-tue (its overlay, not this page's)
C-c -dismiss-regionon the header: drop the window — the page and its blocks live on
C-c C-kdelete-blockon a block at point: destroys it everywhere — y/n, it lives on orals-tue
Added to emnlp-2026/orals-tue .homed there · visible here through the transclusion
5COLLAPSE & DEPTH

[+] folds to one line · nesting stops at depth 1

Tab on the header folds the region to a single line — the conference page becomes a clean index of sessions that unfold in place. If a transcluded page itself transcludes something, that inner region renders as a plain [[link]] — one level deep, always. No cycles, no soup; jump if you need to go deeper.

[emnlp-2026]· pageday week month· pages Mod+K jjump Mod+K xrun·context
conferences
emnlp-2026 ⌄
:conference: :nlp:nov 8–12 · suzhou
*Logistics
flight lands sat 19:40 · hotel is the one next to the venue, checkin after 15:00
[+] emnlp-2026/orals-mon 4 blocks · :talks:
[+] emnlp-2026/orals-tue 7 blocks · :talks:
[-] emnlp-2026/posters-wed 2 blocks transcluded
*Style-aware reranker — don't be misled by style:paper:
retrieval models overweight stylistic similarity; rerank with style features ablated.
*Notes shared with reading group
this page also transcludes [[reading-group/queue]] — rendered as a link here, one level deep
+ Click to add text...
*People to find:todo:
ask the dense-retriever authors about the MLP-pruning conflict
Dismiss vs delete on a region: C-c - on the header dismisses the window (ref removed from this page's overlay; the page is untouched). Delete is never offered on the header — a region isn't a block. Blocks inside keep their normal provenance rules.
Folded emnlp-2026/orals-tue.Tab unfolds · state persists per surface