MOmostafah·May 14, 2024Submission
A primer for users trying to make sense of Org Mode
6 points · Open discussionjames-stoup
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A primer for users trying to make sense of Org Mode
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A primer for users trying to make sense of Org Mode
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Dec 18 | 2023-12-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-12-25 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 25 | 2023-12-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 1 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 8 | 2024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 15 | 2024-01-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 22 | 2024-01-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 29 | 2024-01-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-02-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 5 | 2024-02-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-02-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 12 | 2024-02-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 19 | 2024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 26 | 2024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 4 | 2024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 11 | 2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 18 | 2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25 | 2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 1 | 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 8 | 2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 15 | 2024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 22 | 2024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 29 | 2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 6 | 2024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 13 | 2024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesYes, org mode is pure genius. The only issue with org mode is it used to only work well from emacs itself. I use past tense as I've address that issue as an attempt to get more colleague to use org mode when building this: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
It takes virtually any org mode document stored anywhere and will expose the org mode export so you can browse the generated pages like a website available as not only a regular html one but also a pdf one with links and all that emacs generate on the fly. Example with a random github repo that have a couple org mode documents:
- pdf export: https://demo.filestash.app/login?type=git&repo=https://githu...
- html export: https://demo.filestash.app/login?type=git&repo=https://githu...
- txt export: https://demo.filestash.app/api/export/private/text/plain/REA... and more ...
It's
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not super fast as it runs emacs everytime you need to render a page and run the export from there but considering the title of this article, it is well within the theme of blogging like a hacker.