Hi, Gustav Wikström writes: >> Just curious: what is it you wish to do in a mobile environment. I have >> everything I need with MobileOrg and running full emacs + org on an >> OpenPandora. Obviously, your needs may be different than mine. >> >> (email composed on train offline on my OpenPandora in Emacs with gnus ;-) >> >> -- >> : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.3.1, Org release_8.3beta-372-gdd70cf > > My wish is to be able to do mostly everything related to > task-tracking, scheduling, working with references and so on. General > GTD stuff. OpenPandora sounds neat, except it's not quite the standard > tool available out there ;-) And a general idea of Emacs in your > pocket is nice, except it's not really possible without a different UI > than the keyboard. So; what way forward with GTD in Emacs Org-mode > then, while still having the wish of it to be more accessible? > > Thus the idea of a more formal (and parsable) grammar in a > standardized format. My hope is that it will make Org-mode more > general than it already is. As I said already; Org-mode to me is more > than Emacs. To think BIG, Org-mode grammar could be a standard for PIM > or GTD related software. To think a bit less big, it might help > developers create software with non-Emacs tools. By using the formal > grammar to work with Org-mode source documents in more accessible > ways. Maybe with UI's available through mobile phones or tablets (and > without the use of special schedules of read/write in Emacs to keep > the mobile system synced; MobileOrg). This sounds like a good idea. And since there are a lot of parsers in other languages recognizing a subset of org mode syntax, other people like this idea too. I think a difficulty with that solution is that it won't capture the heavy customization the user can make on org-mode using hooks or customizing variables. Having a real emacs in the pocket would provide org-mode along with the customization. Nevertheless, as you stated, emacs is not really user friendly when you don't have a keyboard at hand. For that reason, I think that as well as embedding emacs into the phone, we could provide a UI communicating with it using an IPC mechanism. This way, we would have the solution with more to gain (a functional org-mode as well as the customization) and less to write (only the needed UI code). I already tried using epc to perform a two way communication between a python shell and emacs. I talked about this in another thread¹. What do you think of this approach? ¹ http://mid.gmane.org/87iokv4659.fsf@gmail.com -- Konubinix GPG Key : 7439106A Fingerprint: 5993 BE7A DA65 E2D9 06CE 5C36 75D2 3CED 7439 106A