From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Horn Subject: Re: Org Mobile Writing App (a la Epistle/Paragraft) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:27:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20110723181749.GB1303@arendt.tychoish.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36834) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlSgv-0002DL-Pf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:27:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlSgu-0002TZ-Gj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:27:57 -0400 Received: from mail-vx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.220.169]:55638) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlSgu-0002T1-CT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:27:56 -0400 Received: by vxg38 with SMTP id 38so4176187vxg.0 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:27:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110723181749.GB1303@arendt.tychoish.net> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: tycho garen Cc: Org Mode I'd be interested in something like this! Maybe the standard org file format will increase development activity for mobile devices. On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 14:17, tycho garen wrote: > I must confess that I've fallen onto the Tablet bandwagon, and despite > the alure of having a more functional mobile-org,I went for an android > tablet (to match the phone, and because I'm not a mac user.) Largely I > think it's great, and while I've got a mobile-org setup that I like > well enough, I found myself saying "wouldn't it rock, if..." a few > times and I just wanted to float the idea with you. > > While I think mobile-org is a great concept for making all of the task > planning and organization features of org more accessible on the go, > it's not quite so good for taking notes and doing the kind of writing > that I spend most of my waking hours doing these days. > > I've been using a really delightful little app called > [Epistle](http://kooklab.com/epistle.html) which renders markdown text > (a fetish of mine that predates org-mode,) that works with dropbox. I > think I learned about this from someone on the list. I suspect it's a > lot like Paragraft for those of you on the otherside. > > I've created a little script that links all of my org-files into a > place where Epistle can see them in dropbox > (http://tychoish.com/code/epistle-linker/), and while the rendering > doesn't work, it is nice to be able to read and edit these files. I've > also, as an aside created some procmail and shell glue that takes > emails and inserts them into an org-file so that I can capture stuff > on the go using the email program. That's here: > > http://tychoish.com/code/org-mail/ > > Wouldn't it be nice to have something like Epistle for org-mode? It > might just render org-mode text to HTML, and frankly that would be > enough for me. Org-indent equivalent, syntax highlighting, and > collapsing trees (probably in that order) might be nice as well, but I > think the key is simple and quick... > > I'm not a developer, so I can't promise to start making an app this > instant if there's interest, but if anyone's bored and thinks this > might be a good idea (or knows of something that might work better for > this.) I'd love to hear about it. > > Cheers, > Sam > > -- > tycho(ish) @ > garen@tychoish.com > http://tychoish.com/ > "don't get it right, get it written" -- james thurber > -- Jeffrey Horn http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/