Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter

#1

Post by turth » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

I like to use org files a lot, but I wanted some way to browse and edit them on my phone when I'm out. Yesterday I used Codex to make this simple one-file web server that just displays all my org files with backlinks. It doesn't have any authentication because I only run it on my wireguard VPN. I've been having fun with it, hopefully it's useful to someone else!

Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter
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Re: Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter

#2

Post by tobbe2064 » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 7:13 PM UTC

Nice! For the phone you might want to consider orgzly revived, yiu can point it to a git repo of your choise

Re: Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter

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Post by turth » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 7:58 PM UTC

tobbe2064 wrote: post #2

Nice! For the phone you might want to consider orgzly revived, yiu can point it to a git repo of your choise

I haven't tried this before, thanks for pointing it out

Re: Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter

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Post by hommelix » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 8:42 PM UTC

An alternative proposed on orgmode website would be organice. https://organice.200ok.ch/

Re: Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter

#5

Post by secstate » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 9:18 PM UTC

This is awesome. I knew about orgnice and orgzly ... this is different, so light weight, so easy to find things. I used org aggressively to track tasks and as a Roam alternative and this fits my use cases wonderfully.

I'm adding some nice-to-have features and will open up a PR with some of them very shortly!

Re: Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter

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Post by mijoharas » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC

secstate wrote: post #5

This is awesome. I knew about orgnice and orgzly ... this is different, so light weight, so easy to find things. I used org aggressively to track tasks and as a Roam alternative and this fits my use cases wonderfully. I'm adding some nice-to-have features and will open up a PR with some of them very shortly!

There's also orgro[0], which I've been happy with, though it's quite rare that I use it nowadays.

I had to switch from orgzly for some reason I can't quite remember. (I don't think it was by choice. Some kind of bug or incompatibility?)

[0] https://orgro.org/

Re: Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter

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Post by turth » Tue, Feb 17, 2026, 3:16 AM UTC

secstate wrote: post #5

This is awesome. I knew about orgnice and orgzly ... this is different, so light weight, so easy to find things. I used org aggressively to track tasks and as a Roam alternative and this fits my use cases wonderfully. I'm adding some nice-to-have features and will open up a PR with some of them very shortly!

Thank you! I'm glad you find it useful

Re: Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter

#8

Post by dietr1ch » Tue, Feb 17, 2026, 2:43 PM UTC

tobbe2064 wrote: post #2

Nice! For the phone you might want to consider orgzly revived, yiu can point it to a git repo of your choise

I find using git for my notes annoying, but it also works great with Syncthing if you have an always online peer. Before that I ran into conflicts that I guess would've been easier to resolve with git.

Re: Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter

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Post by c6401 » Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 4:35 AM UTC

secstate wrote: post #5

This is awesome. I knew about orgnice and orgzly ... this is different, so light weight, so easy to find things. I used org aggressively to track tasks and as a Roam alternative and this fits my use cases wonderfully. I'm adding some nice-to-have features and will open up a PR with some of them very shortly!

Logseq supports some of org mode syntax.