How I blog: One year of posts in a single org file

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If you don't use org mode, you should. Emacs is entering a renaissance.

You can use org-mode in Sublime:

https://github.com/danielmagnussons/orgmode

If you commit and org file on github, it will render.

e.g. README.org

org-mode without the huge collection of emacs lisp code to generate agendas, export to HTML, LaTeX, etc., navigate rapidly, search, etc. isn't really of much use.

It works great as a simple markdown. I have over a dozen org files on github that I use for notes.

You're making that common mistake to assume that if someone isn't using all the power features of a tool then you should use a simpler tool. I have a tool with room to grow. For example:

https://github.com/bdewey/org-ruby

People use Emacs for writing books. You'd probably tell them they're wasting their time?

http://www.therandymon.com/index.php?/197-Woodnotes-Guide-to...

Why is it entering a renaissance? Why should I learn to use emacs?

I will sometimes read posts like this but I never get a good enough reason to spend a good bit of time relearning my flow.

I don't know about a renaissance, but there's a good metaphor there. The Renaissance was built on the idea that 15th century hipsters could trust wisdom from the Classical age...they decided that Plato and Seneca and Thucydides and Vitruvius were not idiots. There's a parallel in the idea that Emacs must be good to have survived forty years without built in clip-art and borders. Sublime and Atom simply don't have the man-years of development and quality hackers scratching their own itches.

The reason to switch is trust that Emacs really is an amazing cup of Kool-aid, but with the understanding that learning it is a long term project more akin to playing the saxaphone than the kazoo.

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