Oh hei, HN! Post author here.
Of all the giant blog posts I've written (brevity is not my strong suit), this one must have sent me the most traffic... Clearly there is a persistent unmet demand for Org Mode explanations / experience reports. Please write!
For non-Emacs users:
I've listed a bunch of alternatives that offer useful sub-sets of the Emacs version. On my Android phone, I use orgzly. I don't sync back and forth, preferring to hand-transcribe anything that is worth my while (I type fast enough on my computer). However it's good to know that my notes are just plain text, therefore always accessible.
Recent-most epic win of using org-mode:
Trivially exported the live demo version [1] of my talk [2] (org-babel) to a single web page [3] (reveal.js deck). It was a remote presentation, so it was great to be able to share the deck with the attendees.
[1] clojure-web-app-workshop-functional-conf-2025.org here: https://github.com/adityaathalye/slideware/ (see raw source for export directives)
[2] Talk video in this playlist: https://youtu.be/YEHVEId-utY (the playlist has video of the example I described in my blog post.)
[3] All blog posts are just tiny websites :) https://www.evalapply.org/posts/why-and-how-i-use-org-mode/d...
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Edit: Discussed previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34967802 (164 points, 159 comments)
Of all the giant blog posts I've written (brevity is not my strong suit), this one must have sent me the most traffic... Clearly there is a persistent unmet demand for Org Mode explanations / experience reports. Please write!
For non-Emacs users:
I've listed a bunch of alternatives that offer useful sub-sets of the Emacs version. On my Android phone, I use orgzly. I don't sync back and forth, preferring to hand-transcribe anything that is worth my while (I type fast enough on my computer). However it's good to know that my notes are just plain text, therefore always accessible.
Recent-most epic win of using org-mode:
Trivially exported the live demo version [1] of my talk [2] (org-babel) to a single web page [3] (reveal.js deck). It was a remote presentation, so it was great to be able to share the deck with the attendees.
[1] clojure-web-app-workshop-functional-conf-2025.org here: https://github.com/adityaathalye/slideware/ (see raw source for export directives)
[2] Talk video in this playlist: https://youtu.be/YEHVEId-utY (the playlist has video of the example I described in my blog post.)
[3] All blog posts are just tiny websites :) https://www.evalapply.org/posts/why-and-how-i-use-org-mode/d...
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Edit: Discussed previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34967802 (164 points, 159 comments)