Re: org-mode to iphone?

From: Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com>
To: David Thole <dthole@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-mode to iphone?
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:09:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0e1fe620901221509g6b89f6bcn775d3454a6f8f14d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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The idea of a generic exporter sounds very cool. Especially if it
could still make use of the very refined set of options org mode has
to include and prune subtrees, to include or exclude keywords,
timestamps, and tags.  I wonder if it could be made also to work with
something like the Pandoc extensions to Markdown
[http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/], which would then allow further
export into the range of formats Pandoc supports (markdown,
reStructuredText, HTML, ConTeXt, RTF, DocBook XML, OpenDocument XML,
ODT, GNU Texinfo, MediaWiki markup, groff man pages, and S5 HTML slide
shows).  Of course, such flexibility probably doesn't come without
it's struggles, but the ability to throw an org document in and get
and ODF would have significant benefit.

I'll have to think about how far a generic substitution-based exporter
could get at such a conversion....

Scot

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:57 PM, David Thole <dthole@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been tempted to create a frontend web site devoted toward very simple
> operations in regard to using org-mode - something say in Django or
> something, and using sync scripts to the org files.The idea I was thinking
> is just a simple CRUD operation with that file (either that or use a sql
> database such as sqllite and use a cron job that "syncs" these together).  I
> wouldn't mind still completing that if people are interested in such a
> tool.  Since I have just an ipod touch, I've been reluctant to build it
> since I don't have access 100% of the time to the app.
>
> -David
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Christopher,
>>
>> I am extremely interested in what you write here about using HTML
>> to look at the agenda, sending automatic emails for completed
>> tasks, and even the IMAP store idea.
>>
>> So please get back to it when you find time and keep us
>> posted.  I could tweak the HTML exporter where necessary
>> to make a good mobile access idea for Org-mode stuff
>> a reality.
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>> On Dec 22, 2008, at 11:10 PM, Christopher DeMarco wrote:
>>
>>> As a more-useful alternative to my ha-ha-only-serious "email"
>>> response, look at the export-to-HTML functions.  I haven't gotten here
>>> yet with org-mode, but I understand they're pretty powerful -- and
>>> HTML is perfect for the iPhone.  A robust HTML interface to your
>>> org-mode would be much more useful than a native iPhone app, IMHO, and
>>> without the landmines of interfacing with iCal et.al.
>>>
>>> My previous organization system (Python-based) had a simple CGI
>>> interface to parse my sources into HTML with CSS for the iPhone; it
>>> worked surprisingly well, including hyperlinks that sent me email
>>> noting that I'd "checked off" an item -- I didn't trust myself to
>>> actually change state from the iPhone, but sent a "check off the item
>>> manually" reminder.
>>>
>>> Once I've got my Emacs-native org-mode where I want it, I plan on
>>> tackling the iPhone display and sharing my code with the list.  It
>>> should be pretty easy to write a mod_python handler to pull org-mode
>>> source from Git or Subversion and run that through the elisp
>>> interpreter...
>>>
>>> But seriously, you could totally expose your agenda view as an IMAP
>>> store...
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> IT Director
>>> MAYA Group
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>>>
>>>
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