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• Knowledge Should Not Be Gated
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2026

  I've been using org[0] for the past 10 years to store knowledge, project write-ups, notes, etc and love it. As I get deeper into AI I'm keeping that, like recently I created an org-edit tool to manage especially issues in the project write-ups. 1 file with all my several hundred projects accumulated over the years, and the value has only grown although it's becoming harder for me to personally consume; I'll likely just create a couple commands that improve the browsing experience. But I continue to love and prefer that single large file (actually several: personal knowledge, projects, business and an inbox) to many individual files. And it's synced across my devices, where esp on mobile I can access it all via Orgzly[1].

  [0] https://orgmode.org/

• strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jun 2026

  > But I think we will swing back to using GUIs when we find a performant way of making them

  I like this new TUI renaissance as well, but if you wanna see what a symbiotic relationship between GUIs x TUIs could look like you need to see what Emacs does with Orgmode and the whole Org ecosystem of org-agenda, org-roam, etc. Lot's of these TUIs from the awesome are somewhat already inside Emacs.

  https://orgmode.org/

• Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jan 2026
• Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
  17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2026
• Kaomel: a snappy kaomoji picker for Emacs
  8 projects | dev.to | 13 Aug 2025

  Each code block could be evaluated in place, with results appearing inline. Want to test JSON parsing? Write a block, execute it, see the output. Need to try different data structures? Compare approaches side-by-side with immediate feedback. This resembles the classic Lisp REPL workflow but with all the organizational benefits of org-mode. The development document became a living laboratory.

• I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
  30 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2025

  I'm a fan of Org Mode with Emacs [0] and using the app BeOrg [1] on my iPhone.

  I have 3 main task files:

  - todo.org for things I need to do

  - backlog.org for things that I don't have to do now but should do in the future

  - inbox.org for any random ideas or notes

  The concept of an Inbox was taken straight from Getting Things Done [2].

  I have different searches set up in BeOrg so that it is easy to view tasks from each different file.

  This is definitely more complicated than a single file, but I like it mainly because it keeps my main task file (todo.org) organized. I also don't go through organizing my files that much either.

  inbox.org is just a great place to dump anything, so I usually do a quick scan and either delete everything or refine it to the backlog.org.

  For backlog.org, I'll usually just let things sit there and build up. After a while I'll realize that if something has been there for a long time, it probably isn't worth doing - or I already did it, so I delete it.

  [0]: https://orgmode.org/

  [1]: https://www.beorgapp.com/

  [2]: https://hamberg.no/gtd

• Ask HN: How do you store the knowledge gained in a day?
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 May 2025

  TIP: When asking for advice in relation to knowledge management, note-taking, etc., be sure to ask for precise details regarding commenters' solutions. There are many people who participate in these discussions who don't seem to take a lot of notes (e.g., one file or paper notepad for all of their notes!).

  I have a personal knowledge base that currently includes almost 7,000 files in which I store my notes. I take notes on everything. Every technology. Every product. Every meeting. EVERYTHING.

  My notes are stored in Org files that I edit with Emacs and Org mode[1]. Org files are written using a feature-rich lightweight markup language[2] that is much more powerful than Markdown (which is used by alternative note-taking tools like Obsidian). For example, Org supports plain text spreadsheets[3], a feature I love.

  Too many people will disqualify Org and say, "I don't use Emacs," while assuming that Emacs users choose Org because we already use Emacs. But I started using Emacs specifically to use Org, not for programming.

  But regardless of which tool you end up using, consider organizing your note files using hierarchical tagging. I started using hierarchical tagging for my notes right after Wikipedia was first launched and I saw how effectively hierarchical tagging was being used there. Each Wikipedia article can belong to multiple categories, and each category can belong to multiple categories. This is hierarchical tagging, and it's worked great for my notes. At the bottom of every one of my Org files, there is a list of "parent topics", and each parent topic has a list of parent topics (excluding the "main topics", which have no parents).

  [1] https://orgmode.org/

  [2] https://orgmode.org/features.html

  [3] https://orgmode.org/manual/The-Spreadsheet.html

• Ask HN: Static Site (not blog) Generator?
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2025

  My favorite static site generator is Org mode[1] for Emacs. Org files are written using a feature-rich lightweight markup language[2] that is much more powerful than Markdown (e.g., plain text spreadsheets). Org files can be exported to HTML[3].

  The reason I prefer Org for static site generation is not because I already use Emacs. I actually started using Emacs about 20 years ago specifically to use Org mode.

  [1] https://orgmode.org/

  [2] https://orgmode.org/features.html

  [3] https://orgmode.org/manual/HTML-Export.html

• Reinventing notebooks as reusable Python programs
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Mar 2025

  "until recently, Jupyter notebooks were the only programming environment that let you see your data while you worked on it."

  This is false. Org-mode has had this functionality for over two decades.

  https://orgmode.org/

• Emacs 2024 Changes
  11 projects | dev.to | 1 Jan 2025

  Work - I use org-mode heavily for my personal project management and note keeping.

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