Hard to compress this into an understandable title, so: Problem: Working on small systems (Chromebook Linux, iPhone) with small disk space. Looking for a way to store lots of PDFs/JPEGs in an accessible way to both systems that Emacs/Org & Beorg can work with. Ruled out USBs & Cloud storage due to complications on one side or the other. Wrestling with Github as a possibility, but not sure. Don't want to invest time/money in my own file server and not sure it would work for my goal.
Goal: Have potentially a significant number of Org files with links to PDFs/JPEGs that either want to work with locally (popping to a browser to follow the links) or export to Latex/PDF with the linked PDFs/JPEGs inlined in the export. Option: Have found a cloud storage that allows accessing the files via HTTPS and the storage can grow as needed. Org Need: A new hyperlink that will be treated as HTTP in most export cases except when exporting to Latex/PDF. In that case, it would do the following: + create a temporary directory (if doesn't already exist) + wget (or...) the file to the temporary directory + change the link to a file: link in the export process + remove the temporary directory when done exporting Beorg Need: Just treat the new hyperlink as "https:" as Latex doesn't run on iOS. I can talk to Beorg about that. Justification: Allows more options on storage without really forcing any particular branded storage -- you could setup your own web server. Is this possible? Is this done? Is this close to done? Where is the starting point? David Masterson
