From: Martin Alsinet <martin@alsinet.com.ar>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com>,
Org Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Best practice for providing an Org-based application?
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 08:58:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABUJmkA-giwV0arS_vk0Ka=49fo2uoEVhj-n_qwvsQAjVynuoA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h85j1f0o.fsf@mbork.pl>
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Neil,
You could use transient[1], the tool used to build the menus of magit[2].
I really like magit's discoverability and ease of use.
There is a video of a talk where it is used to control kubernetes from
inside emacs in magit style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3krYEeqnyk
[1] transient: https://github.com/magit/transient
[2] magit: https://magit.vc
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 2:17 AM Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-11 13:59 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
2019-09-11 7:35 ` SYOGM Management
2019-09-11 13:58 ` Martin Alsinet [this message]
2019-09-18 19:02 ` Thorsten Jolitz
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