change internal org-mode links from file:///[filename].org to https://org-web.org/file/[filename].org

[elliottw]

I rely heavily on internal links to jump around between org-mode files. Currently internal links are just like in emacs (file:///) which doesn't resolve in a browser.

[DSMasterson]

Read the chapter on "Hyperlinks" (particularly Internal and External) in the OrgMode Info documentation. Then read the chapter on "Exporting" (particularly HTML) in the OrgMode Info documentation.

[elliottw]

Ah so is org-web using the backend to convert to HTML or are you saying i am supposed to export to html and point org-web to that? For some reason, I thought it wasn't since org-web produces .org links and the docs for exporting to html say:

For Org links to other .org files, the back-end automatically changes the file extension to .html and makes file paths relative.

When I export to HTML from within emacs, it seems to do the right thing and create a relative html link (removing file:) to a .html file.

[DSMasterson]

Sorry, I answered the question as a basic OrgMode question. I forgot this was an Org-Web site. I'm not supporting Org-Web -- I just happened to be looking. Judging by the age the latest messages, I'm not sure how much Org-Web is being supported, but it does seem to be working. The sample doesn't say anything about Org-Web's support of hyperlinks, though.

As to your question, I would say that your standard workflow is going to be:

1. Write your standard Org files with Emacs on your home machine.
2. Link them into Dropbox or Google Drive
3. Access them with Org-Web from (say) your phone and continue editing them
4. Iterate between your home machine and telephone to work on your Org files.
5. Export/Publish your Org files in other forms (PDF, HTML, ...) if needed.

Note: Org-Web appears to be only for editting Org files -- not for getting an agenda of TODOs.

[DanielDe]

Hey folks!

@elliottw I think this is a great suggestion! Can you think of any cases in which this wouldn't be the desired behavior? I suppose it's probably pretty safe if the file you're linking to is a .org.

@DSMasterson org-web does, in fact, support an agenda of your todos! You can hit the little calendar icon on the bottom (2nd from the right) to bring it up.

[DSMasterson]

Ah yes -- thanks for chiming in. Didn't mean to steal your thunder.

The agenda is just the time-line of todos for this week, correct?

[DanielDe]

No, no worries at all!

The agenda is just the time-line of todos for this week, correct?

Yep, but you can view just a day or an entire month as well:

[elliottw]

@DanielDe I can't realistically think of a usecase where you'd want a file:/// link for an internal org-mode (.org) link inside a web browser. I guess if you were running org-web locally, then maybe you'd just want a web interface to traverse your local org-mode file collection, but then you probably wouldn't start at https://org-web.org.

Also, I think the popularity of deft and org-roam, we're going to see a lot more linking between org-mode files than before these packages helped to support smaller/more org-mode files versus 10 years ago everyone would just have something like brain.org.