Another selling point for me is the relative ease of writing custom exporters from org to other formats [1,2].
My latest use cases are:
- Extracting a list of issue descriptions (for Jira) from a Getting Started guide, that included "todo" comments.
- Extracting a list of contacts from notes taken at during a conference.
- Drafting Jekyll blog posts in org-mode.
For todo and contact information, org properties [3] are used to specify semantic fields, that can in turn used by the exporter.
To be fair, the work on these exporters in not completed. I am still getting my lisp up to speed. But from what I can see this way easier than writing pandoc backends or jupyter notebook exporters.
My latest use cases are: - Extracting a list of issue descriptions (for Jira) from a Getting Started guide, that included "todo" comments. - Extracting a list of contacts from notes taken at during a conference. - Drafting Jekyll blog posts in org-mode.
For todo and contact information, org properties [3] are used to specify semantic fields, that can in turn used by the exporter.
To be fair, the work on these exporters in not completed. I am still getting my lisp up to speed. But from what I can see this way easier than writing pandoc backends or jupyter notebook exporters.
[1] Exporter Documentation: https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-export-reference.html [2] Example Exporter (.md): http://repo.or.cz/org-mode.git/blob/HEAD:/lisp/ox-md.el [3] https://orgmode.org/manual/Property-syntax.html#Property-syn...