textpod.el v0.3.0

2026-04-22 Wed 12:48:10 · back

Another round of improvements of textpod.el, a companion Emacs package to Textpod.

Custom ID format - attribute name and prefix

Added two defcustom options in textpod.el:

textpod-id-property (default "TEXTPOD_ID") - name of the Org property used to store the note id.
textpod-id-prefix (default "") - prefix prepended to ids when stored, stripped before sending requests to the server.

Introduced textpod--strip-prefix helper and updated all id call sites (textpod-open-current-note, textpod-org-heading-to-note, textpod-org-region-to-note) to respect these configs.

textpod-set-id sets ID without creating a node

I need a function to create texpod id property without sending note to the server. This is needed to submit old notes so they have proper timestamp.

Added textpod-set-id: an interactive command that sets textpod-id-property on the current heading (with textpod-id-prefix) derived from a time as YYYYMMDDhhmmss, without making any HTTP request.

No prefix arg → uses (current-time).
With prefix arg → prompts via org-read-date, so the note can be back-dated before later uploading with textpod-org-heading-to-note.

Quickly getting to Textpod notes

Using Ack is possible, placing point on a file-name and pressing {H-RET} will call visit-source and go directly to the line.

ack ":ID:\s*textpod_" *.org | grep -v 2026-04-22 | head -n 20

2026-04-12.org:226::ID: textpod_20260412124048
2026-04-13.org:10::ID: textpod_20260414214110
2026-04-13.org:237::ID: textpod_20260414212612
2026-04-13.org:247::ID: textpod_20260414224720
2026-04-13.org:263::ID: textpod_20260414210103
2026-04-13.org:314::ID: textpod_20260414224944
2026-04-16.org:12::ID: textpod_20260416100352
2026-04-16.org:97::ID: textpod_20260417092822
2026-04-21.org:205::ID: textpod_20260421120000

Since I made my Textpod notes to be Org-roam notes, I can query them directly from SQLite DB.

(sqlite-mode-open-file "~/.config/emacs/org-roam.db")

select id, file, title from nodes n where n.id like '"textpod_%"';

textpod_20260329123259	~/Notes/2026-03.org	Standalone HTML Galleries
textpod_20260315124829	~/Notes/2026-03.org	Build HackerNews Legible Frontend
textpod_20260415130636	~/Notes/2026-04.org	Improve public notes
textpod_20260415205822	~/Notes/2026-04.org	“Why Kim Wexler Was The Real Villain of Better Call Saul” by BreakingHub (19 min)
textpod_20260415210948	~/Notes/2026-04.org	“Linus Lays down the Law” – The PrimeTime (ThePrimeagen), 13 min
textpod_20260412124048	~/Notes/daily/2026-04-12.org	Improve HackerNews Legible Frontend
textpod_20260414214110	~/Notes/daily/2026-04-13.org	Interview about k8s setup in Amazon
textpod_20260414212612	~/Notes/daily/2026-04-13.org	kumo – local AWS emulator in Go
textpod_20260414224720	~/Notes/daily/2026-04-13.org	Snowflake MCP server
textpod_20260414210103	~/Notes/daily/2026-04-13.org	Claude Code quota exhausted / degraded quality
textpod_20260414224944	~/Notes/daily/2026-04-13.org	Trying Textpod once again
textpod_20250612070826	~/Notes/html.org	I'm betting on HTML
textpod_20260421120000	~/Notes/daily/2026-04-21.org	Rewrite Textpod to Go
textpod_20260416100352	~/Notes/daily/2026-04-16.org	Advice to org-roam-dailies-goto-today
textpod_20260417092822	~/Notes/daily/2026-04-16.org	Links <2026-04-16 Thu>
textpod_20260422124810	~/Notes/daily/2026-04-22.org	textpod.el v0.3.0

[TK: :colnames yes got broken for some reason].

My textpod.el config

The config automatically makes notes published to Textpod as Org-roam nodes.

(use-package textpod
  :config
  (setq textpod-id-property "ID"
        textpod-id-prefix "textpod_"
        textpod-token (cadr (auth-source-user-and-password "finita.myaddr.dev" "textpod"))
        ;;textpod-url "/notes"
        textpod-url "http://localhost:3000/notes"
        )
  :bind (("C-c b x" . textpod-set-id)
         ("C-c b b" . textpod-org-heading-to-note)
         ("C-c b o" . textpod-open-current-note)))

Updates:

<2026-04-23 Thu>: add keybindings