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

[Karl Voit]

Sorry for the late reply. I was off the mailing list for one and a
half month. Therefore I include a full quote.

* Neil Smithline <address@hidden> 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.

I am writing my PhD thesis these days and therefore I do not have
time for this blogging thing until November or January :-(

Performance is no issue at all on *my* side. I plan to re-generate
the whole blog every night using a cron job.

But I do understand your concern when you need something which is
updaten instantly. (Not my personal requirement.)

> 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? 

Yes. I plan to scan each (or a defined subset) of my Org-mode files.

> If not, I'd love to have a pointer to how you can accomplish this without
> scanning every .org file. That would be cool. 

Sorry.

But anyhow: whatever I hack, it will be on github [1] and everybody
is free to fork and add a better performing real-time update
mechanism. I also have a cool name for my project - be curious *g*

  1. https://github.com/novoid/
-- 
Karl Voit