Re: [O] Minimal overhead Org-mode blogging system

[Neil Smithline]

I like your indexing idea. I use a less-complex system involving 
symbolic links for my agenda files. Yours sounds better.

This is what I use for my agendas:

(setq org-agenda-files
  (list (expand-file-name "~/Documents/+OrgAgendas")))

(defun org-add-agenda-file ()
  (interactive)
  (make-symbolic-link (buffer-file-name) "~/Documents/+OrgAgendas"))

It is just a quick-and-dirty solution. If I remove or move a file, I get 
errors. Also, if I stop using a file for agenda items I must manually 
unlink the symlink.

Have you implemented your indexing system Jude or just designed it? I'd 
love to see it if you have something working. I imagine it could be used 
for todos, cross-referencing tags, properties, etc...

And to prevent Carsten from yelling at me :-D, I would insist that, by 
default, Emacs would not create the cross-referencing database. You'd 
have to explicitly enable it.

Neil

On Mon May 14 22:24:08 2012, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Understand, I use update here in the sense of some file modification
> that subsequently gets saved.  If files to be modified get archived into
> org-mode's revision control system, the blog tag and associated done tag
> could be searched for within the save process and an org database could
> build with file name and then tripplets of date stamp, line number for
> blog tag, line number for done tag and each tripplet would hold another
> blog entry in that unique file which is the first field in the data
> base.  So you want to find a blog entry?  Search the org-generated data
> base for a date stamp and you come up with the file and the range of
> line numbers holding that blog entry.  Search one file and go to
> specific location in second file.  That if it's done or gets done will
> keep file searching to a nice minimum permanently.
>
> On Sun, 13 May 2012, Neil Smithline wrote:
>
> > Karl Voit <devnull <at> Karl-Voit.at> writes:
> > > Therefore I sat down and thought about a workflow that should be
> > > enough for writing simple weblog entries:
> > >
> > >    - create an Org-mode heading (anywhere!)
> > >    - make sure that there is an (uniq) :ID: property
> > >    - add the tag :blog: to heading
> > >    - <write content, subheadings, ...>
> > >    - change state of top-heading to DONE
> > >      - this enables blog entries ?in the queue?
> > >    - (manually) invoke generation-script
> > >
> > > This enables me quick blogging with a list of advantages:
> > >
> > >    - a blog entry can be located anywhere in all of my Orgmode files
> > >    - no extra formatting steps
> > >    - very small (almost non-existent) overhead to create a blog entry
> > >    - no duplicate information
> > >      - updates only in Orgmode, not HTML or any in-between format
> > >    - static (fast) pages
> > >    - self-hosting without any fancy services behind like RDBS
> > > Karl,
> >
> > I'm wondering if you've played around with this at all? I happen to really like
> > the idea but I wonder about its performance.
> >
> > Unless I'm mistaken, and I very likely may be, won't you have to scan all of
> > your .org files to look for the special tags/properties/todo states/whatever?
> >
> > If not, I'd love to have a pointer to how you can accomplish this without
> > scanning every .org file. That would be cool.
>
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