Hi Sven... that's a nice one, you might could add that to the scripts
section of the MobileOrg wiki.

Pretty soon the Capture interface will be extended to allow settings tags
and other things on captured notes... once these are in place I will extend
the CAPTURE action to also take these values as intent params.

http://matburt.net


On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch> wrote:

> Hi Matthew
>
> Matthew Jones <bsdmatburt@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Alright guys, I've gotten this to work.... I've posted an early build of
> > MobileOrg that supports this here:
> >
> > http://matburt.net/files/mobileorg-debug.apk
> >
> > basically, you need to emit the action: com.matburt.mobileorg.CAPTURE
> >
> > it takes an "extra" intent value called "txtValue" which will
> pre-populate the
> > text display.
>
> I was using the script for some days now and did all my capturing this
> way. It is completely stable and reliable on my HTC Magic with Android
> 1.6. I see no hindrance for a release.
>
> > import android
> > droid = android.Android()
> > message = droid.recognizeSpeech("Capture New Note").result
> > a = droid.startActivity("com.matburt.mobileorg.CAPTURE", None, None,
> > {'txtValue':message}, False)
>
> Is there a way to enlarge the 'extra' intent with some standard string?
> It would be nice to have a TODO keyword and a TAG inserted
> automatically. If you are like me, you tend to forget refiling the items
> of from-mobile.org regularly. An automatic TAG insertion could help to
> remind yourself that there is something new that needs to be cared
> about. I use to give a TAG :MIT: (Most Important Things [of the day])
> and have a respective Agenda View that I review several times a day. If
> newly captured items could appear in this list, I would never forget
> about the newly captured tasks. To my regret, I don't know anything
> about Python and its syntax, but I'm sure that the 'message' variable
> can be extended easily (what I have tried did never work).
>
> As a workaround I have written a simple shellscript for a Cronjob that
> starts Conky whenever there is something new in from-mobile.org. So my
> desktop reminds me to refile the new items. Maybe it is of some interest
> for anybody, so I give it below.
>
> Thanks again for your nice work.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Sven
>
>
> Here is the Script. Some values and paths have to be replaced to fit
> your needs:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #!/bin/bash
>
> KILLNR="$(ps ax | grep "conky -c .*conkyrc-mobile" | grep -v grep | sed 's/
> pts.*//g')"
> NEWTASK="$(cat /home/sven/Dropbox/myconf/from-mobile.org | grep -v
> auto-revert | grep -v ^$ | grep -v 20[0-9][0-9])"
>
> if [ -n "$NEWTASK" ];
> then
>    if [ -n "$KILLNR" ];
>    then
>        exit
> #       echo "file is full, conky is running"
>    else
>        conky -c ~/.conkyrc-mobile &
> #       echo "file is full, conky is not running"
>    fi
> else
>    if [ -n "$KILLNR" ];
>    then
>        kill $KILLNR
> #       echo "file is empty, conky is running"
>    else
>        exit
> #       echo "file is empty, conky is not running"
>    fi
> fi
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> This script needs a special configuration file .conkyrc-mobile to be
> placed in the home folder:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> own_window yes
> own_window_type override
> own_window_transparent yes
> own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
>
> use_spacer right
>
> use_xft yes
> xftfont DejaVu Sans:size=18
> xftalpha 0.8
> text_buffer_size 2048
>
> update_interval 3.0
>
> draw_shades no
>
> draw_outline no
> draw_borders no
> uppercase no
>
> stippled_borders 3
>
> border_margin 9
>
> border_width 10
>
> default_color grey
>
> own_window_colour brown
> own_window_transparent yes
>
> alignment top_right
>
> gap_x 10
> gap_y 10
>
> TEXT
> $color
>
> ${Color green}NEW TASKS
> ${execi 10 cat /home/sven/Dropbox/myconf/from-mobile.org | grep -v
> auto-revert | grep -v ^$ | grep -v 20[0-9][0-9]}$color
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>