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Orgmode Without Emacs

Is it possible to use org without emacs?

For most people it would seem from various internet searches that what keeps them using emacs is orgmode. It is certainly true for me that 75% of my emacs usage is purely org based with the rest being python (yes i know its not good python), tramp and the odd text edit though i still find SublimeText an easier option for somethings. Though to answer the question posed at the start the answer was always no, yes we have the various mobile options such as orgzly, orgro, metanote, plainorg but some of these have limited functionality and personal opinion ahead … I would say are more an extension of the desktop org allowing you to view your data and capture basic info and for the desktop you needed emacs but

perhaps not anymore ….

As a long time SublimeText user i was surprised i had missed this, previously i had tried orgmode for sublime but then stumbled upon Org Extended https://github.com/ihdavids/orgextended something which looks to bring most of the org\emacs functionality outside of emacs.

Here we have what appears to be as close as possible a fully functional orgmode implementation outside of emacs. It has syntax highlighting, folding headers, tags, links etc and also a reasonably functional agenda. Certainly there is nothing to stop you creating and modifying complex org documents in it even images are shown inine for example;

Which shows SublimeText 4 on a mac editing a long file i wrote about getting gauges working for a home monitoring system.

You can see here the Agenda view with days having activity shown with a red square around them

It doesnt have all the functionality of an emacs based org-agenda for example repeating todo items stored in my diary file show up irrespective that they are not due for another 6months ie

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++ TODO Kawasaki roadtax :bike:vehicle:
DEADLINE: <2023-04-01 Sat +1y -14d>
:PROPERTIES:
:LAST_REPEAT: [2022-03-26 Sat 11:48]
:END:

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and the various entries i have setup using SEXP do not show eg

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%%(org-anniversary 1969 2 14) Arthur Dent - %d yrs old

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though I have not spent long looking at all the configuration options nor reading through the quite extensive documentation but on an initial review it looks more than capable and very promising to bring org outside of emacs, well worth a look.