iPad text editor for .org files in Dropbox?

iPad text editor for .org files in Dropbox?

[Peter Davis]

Now that I've gotten MobileOrg to work (with the help of many great list members), it appears to be less useful than I'd
hoped. MobileOrg seems to be mainly focused on highly structured documents, with lots of headers, tags, TODO items, etc. While I
have many work-related files like that, much of what I do is more freeform writing, intended for blog posts. These seem to show up
in MobileOrg as having no content at all, in any of the views.

So I've been thinking that a simple iPad text editor might be better for me. In fact, there seem to be a number of them that can
connect to Dropbox and edit files directly. Unfortunately, though, the two I tried, PlainText 2 and Nocs, seem to be making
decisions based on the file extension. PlainText 2 doesn't show me any .org files at all, and Nocs displays them, but gives me a
"Load error" when I try to open one.

I know this question is a bit off the list's topic, but has anyone found an iPad text editor that can operate on .org files in
Dropbox?

Thank you!

-pd

Re: iPad text editor for .org files in Dropbox?

[Christian Wittern]

On 2015-11-25 22:36, Peter Davis wrote:
>
> I know this question is a bit off the list's topic, but has anyone found an iPad text editor that can operate on .org files in
> Dropbox?
I found the App "Editorial" useful for this.  It allows editing and syncs
automatically to the associated Dropbox folder.

Christian

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Re: iPad text editor for .org files in Dropbox?

[Peter Davis]

Christian Wittern <cwittern@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2015-11-25 22:36, Peter Davis wrote:
>>
>> I know this question is a bit off the list's topic, but has anyone found an iPad text editor that can operate on .org files in
>> Dropbox?
> I found the App "Editorial" useful for this.  It allows editing and syncs
> automatically to the associated Dropbox folder.

Thank you, Christian. I will check that out.

Regards,
-pd

Re: iPad text editor for .org files in Dropbox?

[Alan Schmitt]

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Hello Peter,

On 2015-11-25 14:36, Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:

> I know this question is a bit off the list's topic, but has anyone
> found an iPad text editor that can operate on .org files in Dropbox?

I have been looking into this, and here is some additional information.
As I'm writing this while being offline, I cannot give you links except
for those in my browser cache. Please ping me if you cannot find the
programs I reference below.

Editorial looks very nice, especially since you can create workflows
around it using python. There is no syntax support for org files but
I found a feature request for it.

Another option can be Textatsic (http://www.textasticapp.com/). It does
not have org support out of the box, but it can load textmate syntax
description, and I found one written for it
(https://github.com/jezcope/Org.tmbundle).

Best,

Alan

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Re: iPad text editor for .org files in Dropbox?

[Peter Davis]

Thanks for all the suggestions on this. A couple of people mentioned
Editorial, and that does indeed seem very powerful. Like MobileOrg, it
can synch with any particular Dropbox folder, so that part is pretty
transparent.

I don't know what it would take to add org-mode support for this, but it
does already support Markdown, including live previewing and exporting
as HTML or PDF, so it may indeed be a very useful tool.

Thanks!
-pd


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