Re: syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it?

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiaz02@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 05-12-2015, at 08:10, Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So my question is (sorry for the long intro :)) what do orgmode users (who
> also are heavy mobile users) do? do they give up on contacts and
> calendaring on the mobile? maintain 2 separate databases? what tools do
> people use to overcome this issue?


I make a fairly standard, non-sophisticated, usage of MobileOrg. I set it
to update the entries in the built-in Google Calendar: I find Google
Calendar easier to read than what is provided by MobileOrg. I sync the
Mobile org directory between computer(s) and tablet(s)/phone using
syncthing (https://syncthing.net/), which requires that at least two
devices be up (but I have a server that is supposed to be up all the time,
so no problem here ---having a tablet and a phone, a tablet and a laptop,
etc, would also do).

So the computer -> tablet way works just fine. The other way around is
slightly more cumbersome (I capture in the tablet and then, in the
computer, process the flagged.org file created by MobileOrg --- this has
been discussed in this list before, and other people have much more
sophisticated procedures here).

Contacts I do not worry about (I rarely do email on a tablet/phone).


>
> I once had a nokia n900 which ran basically Debian linux, and thus emacs
> could be run naively , these days it seems like all are android devices. I
> still haven't found a gui friendly way to run emacs there.
>

A few years ago I tried using emacs for android, etc, in the tablet, but I
eventually gave up using it since it was too cumbersome for me. MobileOrg
covers my needs pretty well.


Note, however, that you can install Debian (or several other Linuxes)
relatively easily in rooted Android devices and maybe even in non-rooted
devices. There are two or three apps available; I use "Complete Linux
Installer", and you should be able to get X in there, etc (I use it without
X), so you might do Emacs and even start it from a shortcut in a desktop
linux environment running inside your Android. But I haven't tried it (and
it seems to me it'd probably not be the smoothest and most efficient
experience).


Best,


R.

> thanks so much
>
> best
>
> Z


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Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
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