Re: Org and Hyperbole

[Russell Adams <RLAdams@adamsinfoserv.com>]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 04:06:17PM +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> * Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> [2022-06-21 02:43]:
> >
> > Russell Adams <RLAdams@adamsinfoserv.com> writes:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 02:03:15PM +0000, Juan Manuel Macías wrote:
> > >> I've been intrigued with GNU Hyperbole for a while. I'm reading the
> > >> documentation and trying it out a bit. It seems that its button system
> > >> is very powerful. But Org links are also powerful (and exportable), and
> > >> can be extended outside of Org docs. It seems that hyperbole offers some
> > >> cool stuff that Org also has. And other things that are not in Org. I
> > >> find some parts a bit confusing. I wonder if anyone is using hyperbole
> > >> with Org and can put here some minimal workflow example where both
> > >> complement each other in some way. Just in case I'm missing something
> > >> useful...
> > >
> > > Juan,
> > >
> > > I've often wondered the same thing. I've looked at Hyperbole several
> > > times. They have been great at advertising when a new release
> > > occurs. Yet I find that I can't really find a useful feature in it
> > > that I don't get from Org-mode.
> > >
> > > Is there some keen feature I'm missing? What's the use case for
> > > Hyperbole if you're already an Org-mode user?
> > >
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> > My experiences with it mirror yours. It looked interesting and there
> > were some ideas which sounded interesting, but when I came to use it, I
> > found little, if anything, which didn't have a close equivalence in org
> > mode and many things in org mode which it did not have.
> >
> > In the end, it came down to asking myself do I really want yet another
> > information management framework in my life and the answer was no. I do
> > vaguely recall (it was a while ago) there were some ideas I thought
> > would be good to add to org mode though. Unfortunately, I cannot recall
> > the details now.
>
> I somehow cannot relate to it, Hyperbole and Org mode are quite
> different things. I have Hyperbole all the time here running, no
> matter if I use Org mode or what other lightweight markup language.


Could you point to some usage of Hyperbole that could help address
it's use case?

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