Re: Agenda in MobileOrg for Android

[David Rogers <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com>]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:

> Dnia 2013-04-07, o godz. 14:16:54
> David Rogers <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com> napisał(a):

>> I have felt the same way. Is the reason it's not already done (and the
>> pitfall for you if you take on a project like this) that "re-write
>> major chunks of Emacs" is a pretty big job?
>
> ...
> Remember that the purpose of something like such an app (as opposed to
> Org-mode proper) would not be *editing* of text, but (primarily)
> *entering* texts (and short ones, for that matter), entering
> timestamps (which is quite convenient with any pointing device,
> including touchscreens) and things like changing todo states and
> clocking in and out - and that's basically it.  In other words, a very
> small subset of Org-mode is needed here (at least for me).

I see what you mean. That makes more sense than what I said, and I like
your idea.

The part that I want most from Org-mode on Android is being able to
automatically get audible reminders for all my appointments, whether
through a transfer into the phone's own calendar or some other way. The
current MobileOrg doesn't quite do the job, since it doesn't yet parse
things like this:

<%%(org-class 2013 03 01 2013 06 22 5 52 1 12 13)>

... In fact, last time I checked, it didn't even parse date stamps that
weren't in the headline...

... so my whole Org file has to be specially formatted, and some of
Org-mode's extremely useful features avoided, if I am going to satisfy
MobileOrg's requirements.

Being able to edit is nice, but that doesn't take advantage of what I
really have the phone with me for - I see my phone as mainly a reminder
machine, not mainly an editing machine, and would love to see MobileOrg
(or some new project) gain the ability to parse every possible agenda
feature used in Org files, so that I can actually receive reminders for
all the items in my Org-mode agenda. If it came with a better way of
simple editing, that would be even better.

-- 
David