I really wrestled with getting it to behave initially. I hope the
intro to the docs is a joke, as either I'm an idiot or the author
definitely failed :)
- https://getnikola.com/handbook.html

"DON'T READ THIS MANUAL. IF YOU NEED TO READ IT I FAILED, JUST USE THE THING."

To be fair to the author, org support is not built into Nikola, and is coming through a plugin (by yours truly). The remote calls to Emacs for compiling, and other ugly stuff can make it harder than necessary to deal with. 

- Puneeth