Puneeth Chaganti <puncha...@gmail.com> writes: > On 12/4/11, Karl Voit <devn...@karl-voit.at> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I got a nice idea on how a very easy to use Org-mode blog system >> should look like. >> >> Currently, I am using Serendipidy with web-based editor to write >> HTML. Org-mode enabled me to write blog entries and export it to >> HTML. Then I paste the HTML and have to modify minor things (images, >> ...) a bit. I guess the time from finishing the Org-mode entry to >> the final blog entry is approximately ten to twenty minutes. >> >> Overall, I do not want to do this process when I just want to >> quickly write a view paragraphs within a couple of minutes. I need >> a workflow with much less annoying overhead. >> >> 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 > > I have a system, that does most of what you are looking for. > > https://github.com/punchagan/blog-files > > Though it seems to be a little more complicated than it needs to be, > it works for me and I haven't had the time and motivation to simplify > it. >
It would be great to collect these links on the relevant Worg page [1]. As this topic seems to re-surface every couple of months. Perhaps from there we could begin to build consensus on what features would be most desirable for any potential future Org-mode blogging extension. Cheers, Footnotes: [1] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-blog-wiki.html -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
