Solving the Denote/Gollum links quandary
My whole “thing I wish Denote would just do” issue has been around its custom linking format: If you use Denote’s kind of awesome org-mode dblocks, you get denote: formatted links. Prot is very careful to say custom links are perfectly legal and supported by Emacs, but that leaves out the reality that there’s an ecosystem of non-Emacs org-mode tools (e.g. Plain Org) that don’t understand custom link formats. So I had this very cool thing going on with Gollum running on my Synology. Gollum is mostly the same engine GitHub uses for its own wikis, and it can understand a variety of plaintext formats (including Markdown and org). With Gollum you’ve got a web front-end with search, version control, and inline editing if you’re away from an Emacs-capable machine or just want to look a note up on a phone. ...