

I use that information to add the “draft” meta data to front matter.

Using Org for content writing allows using inbuilt Org features to translate to Hugo front matter: So lately I have been working on an Emacs package for exporting Org files to Hugo compatible Markdown (blend of Blackfriday + Hugo shortcodes at places): ox-hugo. Org allows easy ordering of sections, hiding or commenting them, creating tables (with even formulas like in Excel), directly including source code snippets from external files (instead of having to copy/paste them in), running code snippets within the Org file and embedding the results (Org Babel), exporting the single Org format to other formats like HTML, PDF, Markdown, or any custom format, and much more. When using Emacs, it especially comes to mainly using the Org package when writing prose, like blog posts.
