emacs-orgmode@gnu.org archives
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
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>

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1187 bytes --]

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
>
>

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2160 bytes --]

  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

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.orgmode.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='CABUJmkA-giwV0arS_vk0Ka=49fo2uoEVhj-n_qwvsQAjVynuoA@mail.gmail.com' \
    --to=martin@alsinet.com.ar \
    --cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
    --cc=jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu \
    --cc=mbork@mbork.pl \
    --cc=neiljerram@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).