Re: iPhone ----> org-mode

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Brad Bozarth <prettygood@cs.stanford.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: iPhone ----> org-mode
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:28:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A3B9740D-7C35-4DA5-8953-6DEFFF04A262@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f47cd1b50903241121w5b3f8aaeo92d6efc35cc05d35@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Brad,

thanks for your nice words!  Sounds fascinating what you did back then
with graphics.

About the movies of grain collisions, yes, these are quite dated by
now, but they are also 10 years old, made at a time where  had little
understanding of these things, and where I wrote a Perl program to
to glue text into movie frames :-)

We have some newer ones here:

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~dpaszun/movies.html

That reminds me:  My webpage is crap, and I need to redo it in Org :-)

- Carsten

On Mar 24, 2009, at 7:21 PM, Brad Bozarth wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>
> I'm glad I could help in a very small way - I really appreciate the
> years you've put into this. I watched GregKH's, Linus's and your
> Google tech talks the other day, and enjoyed yours the most. I know
> I'll love the flexibility of org-mode over time, but it's great to
> hear your version of the most powerful core features and the theory
> behind them. And yes, I think the RSS --> org-mode idea has some good
> possibilities, and reqall happens to be a convenient phone --> RSS
> tool.
>
> I think we have some similar genes - I ended up a software engineer
> after a childhood love of all things astronomical (and love of
> adrenaline, my dream was to be an astronaut), and was fascinated by
> the self-organization of Saturn's rings - I always wanted to code a
> simulation of such for fun, but never quite got to it. I made a pretty
> neat 3D space particle "sandbox" in my Stanford graphics class, where
> you could fly around and place directional points of gravity that
> would attract all the floating particles on one side of the plane
> perpendicular to your angle of view when you placed the point. Place
> two facing different directions, and you could get beautiful, organic
> looking streams of particles flowing in a ring (well, I thought they
> were beautiful). Place three, and you could get extremely complex and
> interesting cycling streams. I loved how all I had to get right were
> the derivative calculations for gravity fall-off, and the simple
> "flying" control and open-gl graphics, and something artistic emerged.
> I've always loved the idea of complex order arising from simple
> foundations...
>
> Anyway, sorry to ramble, but I went down memory lane when I looked up
> your website and watched the mpeg movies of grain collisions. In the
> age of Pixar, I don't know that many people would agree, but I found
> them fascinating :)
>
> Thanks again for your generous sharing!
> -brad
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl 
> > wrote:
>> Hi Brad,
>>
>> I am really happy that you showed us how to do this.  Like you,
>> when I work I am at my computer, so I don't need a fully mobile
>> side of Org.  But a capture path.  Using RSS like you demonstrate
>> means that we can use any kind of service that pushes to an RSS
>> feed - even if ReQall goes away at some point, there will be others.
>>
>> This, for me, really was the missing piece.  It no longer is missing.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>> On Mar 22, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Brad Bozarth wrote:
>>
>>> Hi! I'm new to org-mode, but knew I had to use it when I combined a
>>> desire to try GTD with my ctrl-s view of the world.
>>>
>>> I'm ok with processing tethered to a computer, but wanted an easy  
>>> way
>>> to capture on the move, without adding anything to my pocket. A  
>>> couple
>>> days of hacking later (with some real *hacks*, but they work), and
>>> I've got something I really like.
>>>
>>> I can now, using either the iphone keyboard or my voice, quickly
>>> capture something, and know that it will shortly be sitting as a  
>>> TODO
>>> under "iPhone inbox" in my gtd.org file that is git synchronized
>>> between all my computers. I put it together with a cron'd shell
>>> script, two awk scripts, and the free "Reqall" iPhone app. Could be
>>> done more elegantly, but then I wouldn't be Getting (other) Things
>>> Done :). I can share the hacks if anyone is interested.
>>>
>>> -brad
>>>
>>>
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