From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com>,
Org Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Best practice for providing an Org-based application?
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:13:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h85j1f0o.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2y2yvd9vy.fsf@andrew.cmu.edu>
On 2019-09-11, at 01:11, John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-11 7:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-08 17:37 Best practice for providing an Org-based application? Neil Jerram
2019-09-08 19:57 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-09-09 1:01 ` Bob Newell
2019-09-09 16:47 ` John Kitchin
2019-09-10 13:44 ` Jean Louis
2019-09-10 21:49 ` Neil Jerram
2019-09-11 7:11 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-09-10 21:34 ` Neil Jerram
2019-09-10 23:11 ` John Kitchin
2019-09-11 7:13 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2019-09-11 7:35 ` SYOGM Management
2019-09-11 13:58 ` Martin Alsinet
2019-09-18 19:02 ` Thorsten Jolitz
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