From: Mark Elston <m_elston@comcast.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MobileOrg and Voice Capturing (Android)
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:10:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF46B08.2020200@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwul463g.fsf@gmx.ch>
Have you looked at sl4a (formerly ase)? With it you can
start Intents and perform clipboard operations plus file
manipulations using a standard scripting language like
perl, python, or ruby (among others). This might be
very useful.
Mark
On 11/28/2010 11:10 AM, Sven Bretfeld wrote:
> Hi together
>
> TextToSpeech has made our lives easier, especially for car-drivers like
> me. I have tried to capture tasks by voice on my Android device and
> implement them automatically to my org-files at home. The results are
> practicable but far from optimal by now. Maybe there are some Android
> users on this list who like to get involved in trying to find an optimal
> solution.
>
> *My method at the moment:*
>
> I use "tasker," the Android killer-app for automatizing almost every
> thinkable task. Created a new task called "org-voice" with tasker.
> Pressing the associated icon does the following:
>
> 1. Plays Darth Vader's voice saying "What is thy bidding, my master?"
>
> 2. Loads app Voice2Clipboard
>
> 3. Waits for 30 seconds (to get Voice2Clipboard ready for recording and
> for me to finish speaking the note)
>
> 4. Write File: Writes the clipboard content to a file
> /sdcard/dropbox/org/org-voice.org
>
> After uploading the file with Dropbox, a cronjob on my PC (which is
> always switched on) takes care of the file. Its lines (each is a capture
> item) are transformed by a series of sed operations and put into a
> different file from-org-voice.org together with some TAGS and a TODO
> keyword; after that the original file is emptied. That's it.
>
> The problem with this approach is that you still have to manually
> download the (empty) capture-file (org-voice.org)[¹] and to manually upload
> it again, because Dropbox for Android doesn't sync changed files on the
> sdcard automatically. And especially to upload process needs quite a
> view clicks.
>
> *What would be better:*
>
> Use MobileOrg and have the clipboard contents written into the file used
> by MobileOrg for written captures. This is
> /sdcard/mobileorg/mobileorg.org if you use sdcard-storage. This way, you
> could use MobileOrg's own syncing process and no cronjob would be
> necessary.
>
> This could be done in two ways:
>
> 1. Use the same procedure and let tasker write the contents into the
> file directly. This is not possible for me since I have to use
> internal-storage for reasons of performance[²] and the files in
> /data/data/com.matburt.mobileorg/files/ are not writable for other
> programs without root.
>
> 2. Use tasker to start MobileOrg, enter the capture dialog and have a
> voice recognition app started. I simply don't know how to do that.
>
> Maybe tasker can even be programmed to automatically start MobileOrg's
> syncing process from time to time. But I don't know if and how this is
> possible.
>
> Does anybody have a better solution? Or a better idea?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Sven
>
> [¹] If you don't, the next sync with dropbox would replace the file
> with your notes by the empty file hosted on the Dropbox server.
> [²] On HTC Magic (Android 1.6) sdcard-storage makes MobileOrg
> incredibly slow. It takes more than a minute after starting MobileOrg
> until the files are displayed.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-30 3:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-28 19:10 MobileOrg and Voice Capturing (Android) Sven Bretfeld
2010-11-29 2:58 ` Matthew Jones
2010-11-30 22:06 ` Sven Bretfeld
2010-11-30 3:10 ` Mark Elston [this message]
2010-12-01 3:04 ` Matthew Jones
2010-12-02 1:25 ` Sven Bretfeld
2010-12-02 1:52 ` Mark Elston
2010-12-02 3:13 ` Matthew Jones
2010-12-02 8:02 ` Sven Bretfeld
2010-12-02 19:14 ` Mark Elston
2010-12-02 20:41 ` Matthew Jones
2010-12-02 22:43 ` Mark Elston
2010-12-03 5:02 ` Matthew Jones
2010-12-03 13:45 ` Sven Bretfeld
2010-12-03 20:51 ` Mark Elston
2010-12-03 21:18 ` Mark Elston
2010-12-07 10:05 ` Sven Bretfeld
2010-12-07 16:34 ` Matthew Jones
2010-12-07 23:24 ` Sven Bretfeld
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