on the go capture

on the go capture

[Sample Hampton]

Users,

What do you use to capture when away from orgmode (in the car, on the 
subway) and what system do you use to migrate those captures into 
orgmode?  Right now I just use a notebook and a pen--and it works fairly 
well--but moving from notebook to org is certainly a pain, and I am sure 
I am losing information.

What do you use?  And if you use mobileorg, then how well does it work?

Thanks,
Sample

Re: on the go capture

[Jeremiah Dodds]

Sample Hampton <zaphod4007@aol.com> writes:

> Users,
>
> What do you use to capture when away from orgmode (in the car, on the subway)
> and what system do you use to migrate those captures into orgmode?  Right now I
> just use a notebook and a pen--and it works fairly well--but moving from
> notebook to org is certainly a pain, and I am sure I am losing information.
>
> What do you use?  And if you use mobileorg, then how well does it work?
>
> Thanks,
> Sample

When I had a smartphone, I used mobileorg and it worked beautifully.

Re: on the go capture

[Vikas Rawal]

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What do you use?  And if you use mobileorg, then how well does it work?



I have been using mobileorg lately but have been troubled by
org-mobile-pull not syncing todo states and tags correctly. Most of
the times, these end up as errors in flagged.org.

Capturing notes and refiling them works well though.

Vikas

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Re: on the go capture

[Eric S Fraga]

Sample Hampton <zaphod4007@aol.com> writes:

> Users,
>
> What do you use to capture when away from orgmode (in the car, on the
> subway) and what system do you use to migrate those captures into
> orgmode?  Right now I just use a notebook and a pen--and it works
> fairly well--but moving from notebook to org is certainly a pain, and
> I am sure I am losing information.
>
> What do you use?  And if you use mobileorg, then how well does it work?
>
> Thanks,
> Sample

I tried mobileorg (for Android) when it was first made available but it
didn't suit me and I didn't particularly like my Android phones in any
case :(

I use a Nokia N900 (maemo, aka linux) or Nokia E7 (Symbian) these days,
both of which have real keyboards.  In either case, I simply ssh to my
desktop and run emacs in screen to take notes.  With screen, I can have
an instance of emacs running constantly which I can access very
quickly.

-- 
: Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D
: in Emacs 24.1.50.1 and Org release_7.8.11-69-ga2fd96

Re: on the go capture

[Christopher J. White]

I use Toodledo (http://toodledo.com).  I've been working on 
org-toodledo.el that syncs todo items between an org file and the 
toodledo server.  There are multiple other toodledo clients including 
one for the iPhone / iPad that work nicely.

The system works pretty well for my needs (todo list management).  I do 
most of my work in org-mode, and use toodledo mostly just for the mobile 
use case (or remote when I don't have my computer).

The project is up on git:

   https://github.com/christopherjwhite/org-toodledo

...cj

On 6/13/12 1:00 PM, Sample Hampton wrote:
> Users,
>
> What do you use to capture when away from orgmode (in the car, on the
> subway) and what system do you use to migrate those captures into
> orgmode? Right now I just use a notebook and a pen--and it works fairly
> well--but moving from notebook to org is certainly a pain, and I am sure
> I am losing information.
>
> What do you use? And if you use mobileorg, then how well does it work?
>
> Thanks,
> Sample
>
>

Re: on the go capture

[Karl Voit]

* Sample Hampton <zaphod4007@aol.com> wrote:
> Users,

Feeling like Tron 1982 :-) 

> What do you use to capture when away from orgmode (in the car, on the 
> subway) and what system do you use to migrate those captures into 
> orgmode?  Right now I just use a notebook and a pen--and it works fairly 
> well--but moving from notebook to org is certainly a pain, and I am sure 
> I am losing information.

I am using Mobile-Org on my Android phone. And I do use it for input
only. I love the "share with.../Mobile Org"-feature that lets me
easily share web pages, RSS feed entries, and such.

Although plain text todos I prefer to write on my hipster PDA[1]
which consists of a folded paper and a space pen. It is just faster
than grabbing the phone, beat the lock screen, start up Mobile Org,
hit the "new task"-button, hit the entry line to start up the
keyboard, and then ... what was it I wanted to write down again?

> What do you use?  And if you use mobileorg, then how well does it work?

For sharing something which is already written, I love it. 

For having stuff from my desktop Org on the road I've had troubles:
I do have /way/ too much stuff on my desktop to blindly add
everything to Org Mobile. And I could not find the time to get a
setup that exports only stuff I need such as contacts, current
errands, ... yet.

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_PDA
-- 
Karl Voit