Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

Re:Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text by mrbill on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @03:34PM (#11392260)

The only thing that keeps me from being able to move away from Evernote is the oh-so-convenient Web Clipper that lets me save web pages/order receipts/etc (anything in the browser) with a right-click, and not having to "print to pdf" or anything like that.

I would love suggestions for alternatives. I've been keeping a plaintext "notes" file as well for damn year 20 years, but am thinking about reorganizing it into OrgMode.

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Re:Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text by alphapapa on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @08:12PM (#11435662)

I think I have what you're looking for. :)

https://github.com/alphapapa/org-protocol-capture-html

With this, you can capture HTML content directly into Org, converted into Org syntax with Pandoc.

For example, to capture your comment into Org, I just highlight it in Pentadactyl (Firefox), press "cc", and Emacs pops up a capture buffer with your comment inserted into the capture template. Or if I press "ch", it passes it through Pandoc, converting HTML lists, tables, headings, code blocks, etc. into their Org counterparts.

I also just added support for python-readability, so if I press "cr", the URL of the page is sent to python-readability, which gets the article content (just like the good ol' Readability bookmarklet), then passes it through Pandoc, and then places it into the capture template.

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