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Ellane W
Personal blog · ellanew.comproductivitywriting
Ellane W's personal blog at ellanew.com covers productivity and writing. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a user's writeup about Journelly, a notes app powered by Org plain text. The comments are mostly from the app's author, who cites the blog as evidence of happy users.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
2026 Inktober Index This website is my personal think tank and playground. Here you will find scribbly sketches, technical articles, thoughtful
What Hacker News says?
For quick notes on the go, I also did go my own way and eventually built the app I wished I had. Journelly: kinda like tweeting but for your eyes only (in plain text) https://xenodium.com/journelly-like-tweeting-but-for-your-ey... While you don't need to know anything about its serialized format, it happens to be powered by Org plain text. For Markdown fans, I am recording Markdown interest. Do reach out: journelly…
Comment linking /ptpl/157-2025-05-19-journelly-is-org-for-those-who-dont-do-org
on “Ditching Obsidian and building my own”Submitted Plain Text. Paper, Less (PTPL) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI have lots of happy users who moved from Notes to my app Journelly (feels like tweeting but for your eyes only) https://xenodium.com/journelly-like-tweeting-but-for-your-ey... It’s powered by org plain text, but Markdown is coming too. Edit: you don’t need to know org markup today to use Journelly. It’s an implementation detail. Here’s a happy user https://ellanew.com/ptpl/157-2025-05-19-journelly-is-org-for...
Comment linking /ptpl/157-2025-05-19-journelly-is-org-for-those-who-dont-do-org
on “Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26”Submitted Calendar.txt Is the Simplest Time Planning System You Will Ever See as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI’m an Emacs enthusiast and also build iOS apps powered by org markup. The more I used my apps, the more I wanted their UX optimised for mobile. This often means completely rethinking the Emacs experience when bringing to mobile. This is most obvious in my latest app [1]. Org markup fully fades as implementation details. Of all my apps, this is the one I personally use the most. Proudly, I also started getting non-E…
Comment linking /ptpl/157-2025-05-19-journelly-is-org-for-those-who-dont-do-org
on “Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good”Submitted How to Filter a Todo.txt File in Obsidian – Without Plugins as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've written a handful iOS apps powered by org. Journelly is my latest https://xenodium.com/journelly-like-tweeting-but-for-your-ey... I got quite a few users who either come from Markdown or simply don't care about the internal implementation. Here's a wonderful writeup by a user https://ellanew.com/ptpl/157-2025-05-19-journelly-is-org-for... ps. Markdown is also coming to Journelly https://xenodium.com/markdown-is…
Comment linking /ptpl/157-2025-05-19-journelly-is-org-for-those-who-dont-do-org
on “Org tutorials”Submitted How to Record and Retrieve Anything You've Ever Had to Look Up Twice as a story · 2 points
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