The idea of pushing formats back to org mode is brilliant design.
You basically coerce all manner of new formats into soemthing you can easily manipulate in the future - which is kind of the essential feature of a note taking system.
You will obviously have to update those scripts a little as these other formats change but then again you’ll only have to do so for the systems u really care about.
Would be great if you could wrap all this back up into a emacs package for easy install ;)
Thanks! Yep, you're right about format changes -- that's why I'm thinking hard how to make it as generic as possible and make error handling defensive enough, so it doesn't fail at the slightest opportunity.
Not really planning for emacs package:
- I don't feel very efficient coding in Elisp
- lots of infrastructure required (e.g. scripts for fetching data) is not worth rewriting in Elisp. Actually most of it is quite Emacs-agnosic and it would be a trivial task for Orger to output Markdown/HTML instead of Org-mode if one wants.
- it's a bit more accessible for other people when it's written in Python. I probably wouldn't be wrong if I say that people who are comfortable messing with Emacs are a strict subset of people that can run few Python scripts in cron :)
That said, if you think there are some benefits in having it tighter integrated with Emacs, I'd be really interested to hear!
You basically coerce all manner of new formats into soemthing you can easily manipulate in the future - which is kind of the essential feature of a note taking system.
You will obviously have to update those scripts a little as these other formats change but then again you’ll only have to do so for the systems u really care about.
Would be great if you could wrap all this back up into a emacs package for easy install ;)