Build Your Website with Org Mode - System Crafters
C'est un tr猫s bon article, d茅crivant comment on peut g茅rer son site web avec #emacs et #orgmode 馃榾
https://systemcrafters.net/publishing-websites-with-org-mode/building-the-site/
Build Your Website with Org Mode - System Crafters
C'est un tr猫s bon article, d茅crivant comment on peut g茅rer son site web avec #emacs et #orgmode 馃榾
https://systemcrafters.net/publishing-websites-with-org-mode/building-the-site/
My article about " #Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead" from https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/ was listed on the entry page of #HackerNews yesterday.
It hurts me to read through the comments. One part of the people who commented obviously didn't read the article they're commenting on.
And another part of the commenters does mix up #Orgmode, the Elisp implementation within #Emacs, with orgdown, the lightweight syntax which is actually the topic of this article. This part of the discussion is totally missing the whole point of my article: practical issues related to Markdown; choosing any other #LML which doesn't come with those downsides. #Orgdown was just one example of many which I wanted to mention because it is one of the least known alternatives outside the Emacs bubble.
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RE: https://graz.social/@publicvoit/115875810144458821
I really do like how #SilverBullet is explaining the consequences of using their version of #Markdown on https://silverbullet.md/Markdown ( #CommonMark).
With statements like that, people learn about the consequences of using that tool.
They can either accept this or think about the negative effects before investing too much energy and data.
I really urge any ( #MD-)tool to include such a warning statement on their project page. It's for the benefit of your users.
One of the reasons why I most probably would recommend switching to SilverBullet if you - for some reason - can't use #orgmode with #Emacs which is IMO the optimum tool for many set of requirements: https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/
I'll migrate my wife's #PKM from #logseq (recent changes are a no-go to me) to SilverBullet or preferably Emacs. My upcoming #GLT26 Org-mode workshop (no recording) will tell her.
Version 1.6 of Org Social is released!
- Added `#+LOCATION:` global metadata field for user location (city, country).
- Added `#+BIRTHDAY:` global metadata field for user birthday in YYYY-MM-DD format.
- Added `#+LANGUAGE:` global metadata field for space-separated language codes (ISO 639-1) that the user speaks.
- Added `#+PINNED:` global metadata field to pin a post to the top of the profile using its ID (timestamp).
- Post ID can now be specified in the header (after `**`) in addition to the `:ID:` property in the properties drawer. Both formats are valid. If both are present, the header value takes priority.
There are no plans to release further versions; this can be considered the final or stable version. A process to adapt the existing software will now begin. Thank you to everyone who contributed!
#orgmode #orgsocial #emacs
My article about " #Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead" from https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/ was listed on the entry page of #HackerNews yesterday.
It hurts me to read through the comments. One part of the people who commented obviously didn't read the article they're commenting on.
And another part of the commenters does mix up #Orgmode, the Elisp implementation within #Emacs, with orgdown, the lightweight syntax which is actually the topic of this article. This part of the discussion is totally missing the whole point of my article: practical issues related to Markdown; choosing any other #LML which doesn't come with those downsides. #Orgdown was just one example of many which I wanted to mention because it is one of the least known alternatives outside the Emacs bubble.
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Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/
#HackerNews #OrgMode #Syntax #TextMarkup #ReasonableLanguages #ProductivityTools
I create my teaching materials as #OER with #EmacsReveal [1]. For my course on IT Systems [2] in summer term 2025, I switched to #Kokoro [3] as #TextToSpeech model, and students generally liked the quality (see README of emacs-reveal for evaluation results). Teaching resources are video-like, interactive HTML presentations with audio, generated from #OrgMode text files using GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
This holiday season, I found the time to release #EmacsReveal 9.54.0, which includes the settings I used for IT Systems. I also updated the #TTS Howto [4] to use Kokoro.
Feel free to reuse my course materials and emacs-reveal! All the best for 2026!
[1] https://gitlab.com/oer/emacs-reveal/
[2] https://oer.gitlab.io/oer-courses/it-systems/
[3] https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro
[4] https://oer.gitlab.io/emacs-reveal-howto/tts-howto.html
#Emacs #Org #RevealJS #CICD #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Education
Right, org-timer-item is what it's called. I keep forgetting about this, but it would've been useful for me today.
If you start a list with:
- 0:00:00 :: Something
(Or any kind of h:mm:ss numbers) when you use org-insert-item, it'll start a timer and insert elapsed time every time afterwards:
- 0:00:00 :: Something
- 0:00:00 :: Timer actually starts
- 0:00:05 :: 5 seconds later
- 0:00:15 :: 10 more seconds
#WritersCoffeeClub Jan. 4 - Share a tool of your trade.
#Emacs #OrgMode on the digital side. This is where all my drafts start out unless they are short and simple/already complete, or have special formatting needs requiring a word processor. I manage versions with #git, which Emacs greatly simplifies with the #Magit package, and once I'm ready to share or submit I export the .org file to .odt, and then to .docx, and edit with #LibreOffice Writer from there. Basically Org Mode meets the drafting and structuring needs Scrivener used to on Windows and Mac.
On the analogue side I like to carry around little one-sheet notebooks made from used printer paper. I simply tuck them inside an old passport bag that's my daily carry and write drafts or take notes on the go before I transcribe them into the appropriate Org Mode file. WikiHow has a nice article on how to make these mini notebooks, and you can skip the stapling step if you use them as discardable temporary notes like I do. https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Paper-Book
#WritersCoffeeClub Jan. 4 - Share a tool of your trade.
#Emacs #OrgMode on the digital side. This is where all my drafts start out unless they are short and simple/already complete, or have special formatting needs requiring a word processor. I manage versions with #git, which Emacs greatly simplifies with the #Magit package, and once I'm ready to share or submit I export the .org file to .odt, and then to .docx, and edit with #LibreOffice Writer from there. Basically Org Mode meets the drafting and structuring needs Scrivener used to on Windows and Mac.
On the analogue side I like to carry around little one-sheet notebooks made from used printer paper. I simply tuck them inside an old passport bag that's my daily carry and write drafts or take notes on the go before I transcribe them into the appropriate Org Mode file. WikiHow has a nice article on how to make these mini notebooks, and you can skip the stapling step if you use them as discardable temporary notes like I do. https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Paper-Book
Right, org-timer-item is what it's called. I keep forgetting about this, but it would've been useful for me today.
If you start a list with:
- 0:00:00 :: Something
(Or any kind of h:mm:ss numbers) when you use org-insert-item, it'll start a timer and insert elapsed time every time afterwards:
- 0:00:00 :: Something
- 0:00:00 :: Timer actually starts
- 0:00:05 :: 5 seconds later
- 0:00:15 :: 10 more seconds
Version 1.6 of Org Social is released!
- Added `#+LOCATION:` global metadata field for user location (city, country).
- Added `#+BIRTHDAY:` global metadata field for user birthday in YYYY-MM-DD format.
- Added `#+LANGUAGE:` global metadata field for space-separated language codes (ISO 639-1) that the user speaks.
- Added `#+PINNED:` global metadata field to pin a post to the top of the profile using its ID (timestamp).
- Post ID can now be specified in the header (after `**`) in addition to the `:ID:` property in the properties drawer. Both formats are valid. If both are present, the header value takes priority.
There are no plans to release further versions; this can be considered the final or stable version. A process to adapt the existing software will now begin. Thank you to everyone who contributed!
#orgmode #orgsocial #emacs
@ctietze I need to be able to make slides from #OrgMode files. But #Beamer cannot (and will not) be made to produce #taggedPDF output (thanks, @mxp). So rather than bang my head against #TeXLaTeX, I took a step back.
Check this out:
pandoc why-yes-i-am-a-wizard.org -o why-yes-i-am-a-wizard.pptx && soffice --headless --convert-to pdf why-yes-i-am-a-wizard.pptx
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/guide/start_parameters.html
No Haskell noodling required.
Apropos my solstice noodling with #accessibility:
I love #OrgMode, ahem huge understatement, but HOLY WOW is @pandoc ever an impressive piece of software. I say again, HOLY WOW
@ctietze I need to be able to make slides from #OrgMode files. But #Beamer cannot (and will not) be made to produce #taggedPDF output (thanks, @mxp). So rather than bang my head against #TeXLaTeX, I took a step back.
Check this out:
pandoc why-yes-i-am-a-wizard.org -o why-yes-i-am-a-wizard.pptx && soffice --headless --convert-to pdf why-yes-i-am-a-wizard.pptx
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/guide/start_parameters.html
No Haskell noodling required.
Apropos my solstice noodling with #accessibility:
I love #OrgMode, ahem huge understatement, but HOLY WOW is @pandoc ever an impressive piece of software. I say again, HOLY WOW
