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Org Mode vs Github Actions: What are the differences?

Developers describe Org Mode as "An Emacs Mode for Notes, Planning, and Authoring". It is used for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system. On the other hand, Github Actions is detailed as "Automate your workflow from idea to production". It makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.

Org Mode belongs to "Project Management" category of the tech stack, while Github Actions can be primarily classified under "Workflow Manager".

Some of the features offered by Org Mode are:

  • Editing
  • Planning
  • Clocking

On the other hand, Github Actions provides the following key features:

  • Multiple workflow files support
  • Free and open source
  • Workflow run interface

Org Mode is an open source tool with 7 GitHub stars and 2 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Org Mode's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of GitHub Actions
Pros of Org Mode
  • 8
    Integration with GitHub
  • 5
    Free
  • 3
    Easy to duplicate a workflow
  • 3
    Ready actions in Marketplace
  • 2
    Configs stored in .github
  • 2
    Docker Support
  • 2
    Read actions in Marketplace
  • 1
    Active Development Roadmap
  • 1
    Fast
  • 1
    Agenda and Calendar
  • 1
    Suitable for long documents
  • 1
    Portable across platforms
  • 1
    Works in CLI via Emacs
  • 1
    Export to md, html, odt, LaTeX etc
  • 1
    GTD Concept
  • 1
    To-Do-Lists/Organiser
  • 1
    Note-taking
  • 1
    Intuitive
  • 1
    Easy formatting

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Cons of GitHub Actions
Cons of Org Mode
  • 5
    Lacking [skip ci]
  • 4
    Lacking allow failure
  • 3
    Lacking job specific badges
  • 2
    No ssh login to servers
  • 1
    No Deployment Projects
  • 1
    No manual launch
  • 1
    Not many editors have org mode support other then Emacs

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What is GitHub Actions?

It makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.

What is Org Mode?

It is used for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system

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What are some alternatives to GitHub Actions and Org Mode?
CircleCI
Continuous integration and delivery platform helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Offers a modern software development platform that lets teams ramp.
Jenkins
In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
Azure Pipelines
Fast builds with parallel jobs and test execution. Use container jobs to create consistent and reliable builds with the exact tools you need. Create new containers with ease and push them to any registry.
GitLab CI
GitLab offers a continuous integration service. If you add a .gitlab-ci.yml file to the root directory of your repository, and configure your GitLab project to use a Runner, then each merge request or push triggers your CI pipeline.
GitLab
GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.
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