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Show HN: A web front end for your Org-files

92 points by gopiandcode 4y ago

pmontra 4y ago
> Emacs_viewer requires OCaml 4.14.0 to build Maybe there is an asdf plugin for OCaml or an apt-get but an executable to download from the Packages tab of the web site would help immensely.
- e40 4y ago
  Yeah, I can't get it to work following the instructions on macOS. Starts up but nothing appears in the browser. Debug mode shows nothing other than "GET /..." which give a 404. Nothing I put in the URL gets me anything.
hackrnusr 4y ago
Most use cases for org files would involve being able to edit them from within the web interface as well.
- kqr 4y ago
  Not at all! My blog (two-wrongs.org) is published from Org source files. I have previously published documentation from Org sources too, with no expectation that the viewers should edit.
  - zasdffaa 4y ago
    two-wrongs.org and www.two-wrongs.org get me a DNS lookup failure.
    - alfu 4y ago
      https://two-wrongs.com/ https://two-wrongs.com/
- diceduckmonk 4y ago
  I’m building a web front end that supports editing, but I still think there is a use case for read-only. Sometimes you want to only update your todo lists at the end of the day. In my case, I have a list of places I want to travel during the day. Things don’t go 100% as planned. You go places you didn’t intend, or you didn’t get a chance to do it all because you wanted to spend more time at one place. I prefer managing my todos when I’m back at accommodations, instead of being distracted from enjoying the present, even if that’s during transit.
vanous 4y ago
Why making a Show HN to link to a GitHub mirror rather than to the Codeberg repo?
- dang 4y ago
  OK, we've changed to that from https://github.com/Gopiandcode/emacs-viewer https://github.com/Gopiandcode/emacs-viewer above. Thanks!
globuous 4y ago
Ah ! Interesting ! I haven’t had the time to look, but is the org parser re written in ocaml or does is use emacs ? I’m wondering because I once had so many todos in so many files that it would cripple my org todos when I opened them. I actually rewrote a small Qt/Cpp frontend for my orgmode needs before giving up.
Terretta 4y ago
I was hand coding web 'apps' in the mid 90s so the look is nostalgic, but wouldn't even a default material design .css be better UX?
- solarkraft 4y ago
  The community around GNU and Emacs seem to love the 70s Unix terminal aesthetic and hate anything resembling a modern GUI. I think that's a major reason their software is never going to become all that popular by itself, at best products built on top of them will be.
  - scroot 4y ago
    Dude I use emacs most of the day precisely because I want to escape all the unixy nonsense as soon as I can and simply deal with a malleable, reactive environment.

92 points by gopiandcode 4y ago

> Emacs_viewer requires OCaml 4.14.0 to build Maybe there is an asdf plugin for OCaml or an apt-get but an executable to download from the Packages tab of the web site would help immensely.

e40 4y ago
Yeah, I can't get it to work following the instructions on macOS. Starts up but nothing appears in the browser. Debug mode shows nothing other than "GET /..." which give a 404. Nothing I put in the URL gets me anything.

hackrnusr 4y ago

Most use cases for org files would involve being able to edit them from within the web interface as well.

kqr 4y ago
Not at all! My blog (two-wrongs.org) is published from Org source files. I have previously published documentation from Org sources too, with no expectation that the viewers should edit.
- zasdffaa 4y ago
  two-wrongs.org and www.two-wrongs.org get me a DNS lookup failure.
  - alfu 4y ago
    https://two-wrongs.com/ https://two-wrongs.com/
diceduckmonk 4y ago
I’m building a web front end that supports editing, but I still think there is a use case for read-only. Sometimes you want to only update your todo lists at the end of the day. In my case, I have a list of places I want to travel during the day. Things don’t go 100% as planned. You go places you didn’t intend, or you didn’t get a chance to do it all because you wanted to spend more time at one place. I prefer managing my todos when I’m back at accommodations, instead of being distracted from enjoying the present, even if that’s during transit.

vanous 4y ago

Why making a Show HN to link to a GitHub mirror rather than to the Codeberg repo?

dang 4y ago
OK, we've changed to that from https://github.com/Gopiandcode/emacs-viewer https://github.com/Gopiandcode/emacs-viewer above. Thanks!

globuous 4y ago

Ah ! Interesting ! I haven’t had the time to look, but is the org parser re written in ocaml or does is use emacs ? I’m wondering because I once had so many todos in so many files that it would cripple my org todos when I opened them. I actually rewrote a small Qt/Cpp frontend for my orgmode needs before giving up.

Terretta 4y ago

I was hand coding web 'apps' in the mid 90s so the look is nostalgic, but wouldn't even a default material design .css be better UX?

solarkraft 4y ago
The community around GNU and Emacs seem to love the 70s Unix terminal aesthetic and hate anything resembling a modern GUI. I think that's a major reason their software is never going to become all that popular by itself, at best products built on top of them will be.
- scroot 4y ago
  Dude I use emacs most of the day precisely because I want to escape all the unixy nonsense as soon as I can and simply deal with a malleable, reactive environment.