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Re: [O] Best practice for providing an Org-based application?


From: Marcin Borkowski
Subject: Re: [O] Best practice for providing an Org-based application?
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:13:59 +0200
User-agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50

On 2019-09-11, at 01:11, John Kitchin <address@hidden> wrote:

> This sounds like an interesting application with a lot of complexities.
> It definitely blurs the lines between a database where you could run
> queries to find/update records, and a human readable, structured data
> file that also does this.

This reminds me of this:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2012/01/06/how-trello-is-different/

I just had a minor enlightenment why Org-mode is so successful (within
its niche, of course).  It implements a bunch of very general data
structures - a tree, a table, a dictionary - and a few slightly more
specific - a clock table, TODOs/tags, markup...

Best,

--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl



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