* syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? @ 2015-12-05 7:10 Xebar Saram 2015-12-05 14:08 ` Eric S Fraga ` (4 more replies) 0 siblings, 5 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Xebar Saram @ 2015-12-05 7:10 UTC (permalink / raw) To: org mode [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2019 bytes --] Hi all I have been using emacs/orgmode for nearly 3 years now. since i cant really code to save my life (im in the humanities field..i have an excuse :)) i still feel like a newbie but i still use emacs/orgmode for nearly all aspect of my computing life. With the help of the wonderful orgmode community and #emacs IRC channel i now use mu4e for email, org-reveal to prepare my classes, orgmode for all my academic/personal TODO's, i use org-ref and helm to manage my references, use it for R analysis (we do statistics in humanities to! ;-), I use it for my password management, and then of course use orgmode to collect all possible information i can think of: i use it to collect food recipes, linux tips etc. I am interested also in using org-contact and or bbdb for contact management. all this is great yet i travel alot to conferences and meeting and do rely on a mobile device (in my case a android nexus 6) in many situations. I check my emails on it as much as i do on my PC, look at upcoming and schedule appointments, look at timed TODOS, add new contacts i meet and collect info on the go (web links, food recipes etc). Out of all the things i do only email (via offlineimap and mu4e) seems to be able to Sync correctly. I have tried various ways of syncing my calander/TODOS (via orgmobile) and my notes (via git) with not much success. these methods with my crappy coding skills are not rock solid and are quite cumbersome to setup and maintain. also there dosent seem to be a solid way to sync contacts to the mobile. 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 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. thanks so much best Z [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2271 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? 2015-12-05 7:10 syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? Xebar Saram @ 2015-12-05 14:08 ` Eric S Fraga 2015-12-05 15:12 ` Xebar Saram ` (2 more replies) 2015-12-05 18:58 ` Matt Lundin ` (3 subsequent siblings) 4 siblings, 3 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Eric S Fraga @ 2015-12-05 14:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Xebar Saram; +Cc: org mode On Saturday, 5 Dec 2015 at 09:10, Xebar Saram wrote: [...] > all this is great yet i travel alot to conferences and meeting and do rely > on a mobile device (in my case a android nexus 6) in many situations. I > check my emails on it as much as i do on my PC, look at upcoming and > schedule appointments, look at timed TODOS, add new contacts i meet and > collect info on the go (web links, food recipes etc). > > Out of all the things i do only email (via offlineimap and mu4e) seems to > be able to Sync correctly. Yes, this is probably a valid summary of the current state of the art re: org and Android devices. > 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 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. I have two different working environments, depending on which mobile device I use: Case 1: if I use an Android device (nexus 4 or 7), I rely on mobileorg heavily to synchronise my calendar. I have mobileorg suck in any events I create in Google calendar and export all org events to Google. This works quite well. However, creating notes etc. on the mobile device in this case is not ideal as mobileorg is not a full implementation of org (and, to be fair, it wasn't intended to be). Although there is an emacs distribution for Android, I've never really managed to get it working satisfactorily, with or without a bluetooth keyboard. Android is a crippled Linux unfortunately... (in my opinion). In the end, I primarily use my nexus devices as phones (really?) and for facebook (as one must). Case 2: this is my preferred mobile solution. I have an OpenPandora palmtop computer [1] running the full Debian testing distribution with Emacs and the org from git, not to mention gnus, LaTeX, Libreoffice, Octave, ... The Pandora has WiFi and bluetooth but not 3/4G connectivity. I use my phone to tether the Pandora to the 'net when I need to connect outside a WiFi zone. In this case, the Pandora and my other systems are fully synchronised using unison. Finally, the Pandora has 2 full SD slots which allow me to walk around with 128 GB of disk space. I bought my Pandora specifically because I wanted a full org mobile experience! I am awaiting the release of the Pyra, the upgrade of the Pandora, very eagerly indeed! Oh, and the Pandora has a fantastic audio system :-) Sorry if I have come across as an advert for the Pandora but I am obviously a satisfied customer. HTH, eric Footnotes: [1] https://boards.openpandora.org/pandora/pandoramain.html/ -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.2-363-g5c13a6 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? 2015-12-05 14:08 ` Eric S Fraga @ 2015-12-05 15:12 ` Xebar Saram 2015-12-05 17:43 ` Bingo UV 2015-12-07 12:48 ` Detlef Steuer 2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Xebar Saram @ 2015-12-05 15:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Xebar Saram, org mode, Eric Fraga [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 3450 bytes --] Thx Eric I am also really looking forward to the new Pyra, im seriously considering buying it when it comes out :D it seems that that would be the easiest solution to orgmode on the go. shame i will have to carry 2 devices though, brings me back to the days of a crappy cell and a PDA :) best Z On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > On Saturday, 5 Dec 2015 at 09:10, Xebar Saram wrote: > > [...] > > > all this is great yet i travel alot to conferences and meeting and do > rely > > on a mobile device (in my case a android nexus 6) in many situations. I > > check my emails on it as much as i do on my PC, look at upcoming and > > schedule appointments, look at timed TODOS, add new contacts i meet and > > collect info on the go (web links, food recipes etc). > > > > Out of all the things i do only email (via offlineimap and mu4e) seems to > > be able to Sync correctly. > > Yes, this is probably a valid summary of the current state of the art > re: org and Android devices. > > > 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 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. > > I have two different working environments, depending on which mobile > device I use: > > Case 1: if I use an Android device (nexus 4 or 7), I rely on mobileorg > heavily to synchronise my calendar. I have mobileorg suck in any > events I create in Google calendar and export all org events to > Google. This works quite well. However, creating notes etc. on the > mobile device in this case is not ideal as mobileorg is not a full > implementation of org (and, to be fair, it wasn't intended to be). > > Although there is an emacs distribution for Android, I've never really > managed to get it working satisfactorily, with or without a bluetooth > keyboard. Android is a crippled Linux unfortunately... (in my opinion). > > In the end, I primarily use my nexus devices as phones (really?) and for > facebook (as one must). > > Case 2: this is my preferred mobile solution. I have an OpenPandora > palmtop computer [1] running the full Debian testing distribution with > Emacs and the org from git, not to mention gnus, LaTeX, Libreoffice, > Octave, ... The Pandora has WiFi and bluetooth but not 3/4G > connectivity. I use my phone to tether the Pandora to the 'net when I > need to connect outside a WiFi zone. In this case, the Pandora and my > other systems are fully synchronised using unison. Finally, the Pandora > has 2 full SD slots which allow me to walk around with 128 GB of disk > space. > > I bought my Pandora specifically because I wanted a full org mobile > experience! I am awaiting the release of the Pyra, the upgrade of the > Pandora, very eagerly indeed! > > Oh, and the Pandora has a fantastic audio system :-) > > Sorry if I have come across as an advert for the Pandora but I am > obviously a satisfied customer. > > HTH, > eric > > > Footnotes: > [1] https://boards.openpandora.org/pandora/pandoramain.html/ > > -- > : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.2-363-g5c13a6 > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 4323 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? 2015-12-05 14:08 ` Eric S Fraga 2015-12-05 15:12 ` Xebar Saram @ 2015-12-05 17:43 ` Bingo UV 2015-12-07 12:09 ` Eric S Fraga 2015-12-07 12:48 ` Detlef Steuer 2 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Bingo UV @ 2015-12-05 17:43 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-orgmode On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 14:08:19 +0000 Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > Case 2: this is my preferred mobile solution. I have an OpenPandora > palmtop computer [1] running the full Debian testing distribution with .... > Oh, and the Pandora has a fantastic audio system :-) > > Sorry if I have come across as an advert for the Pandora but I am > obviously a satisfied customer. > > HTH, > eric > > > Footnotes: > [1] https://boards.openpandora.org/pandora/pandoramain.html/ > Hi Eric, Do you not find pandora too slow to run Emacs? My Asus EEEPC with celeron 900 MHz takes over a minute to generate agenda with 100-150 kB of org files, not too complicated. Exporting to HTML too takes minutes for 30 kB org file. My guess is that 1GHz ARM of pandora should be much slower than this. Do you have some trick up your sleeve to speed it up, or do you make do with slow pandora? Have you hacked it to increase memory? thanks ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? 2015-12-05 17:43 ` Bingo UV @ 2015-12-07 12:09 ` Eric S Fraga 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Eric S Fraga @ 2015-12-07 12:09 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Bingo UV; +Cc: emacs-orgmode On Saturday, 5 Dec 2015 at 23:13, Bingo UV wrote: [...] > Hi Eric, > Do you not find pandora too slow to run Emacs? My Asus EEEPC with > celeron 900 MHz takes over a minute to generate agenda with 100-150 > kB of org files, not too complicated. Exporting to HTML too takes > minutes for 30 kB org file. My guess is that 1GHz ARM of pandora > should be much slower than this. > > Do you have some trick up your sleeve to speed it up, or do you make do > with slow pandora? Have you hacked it to increase memory? The Pandora is indeed slow when compared with some of my other systems and, to make matters even more extreme, I only have the 600 MHz rebirth edition, overclocked to 800 MHz. I do alter my working approach when using it but I do so not only because of the speed but also because of the keyboard and the display. It is very much not a desktop or laptop replacement. For me, it's about data at hand anywhere/everywhere and for taking notes and processing emails. Oh, and listening to music :-) The only concession, with respect to org, that I make is to use sticky agenda views to avoid the long delay in generating each view. The Pyra will help, being significantly faster, but the screen and keyboard will still be small so I doubt my use will change dramatically. -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.5.1, Org release_8.3.2-362-g11291f ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? 2015-12-05 14:08 ` Eric S Fraga 2015-12-05 15:12 ` Xebar Saram 2015-12-05 17:43 ` Bingo UV @ 2015-12-07 12:48 ` Detlef Steuer 2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Detlef Steuer @ 2015-12-07 12:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-orgmode; +Cc: Xebar Saram Am Sat, 5 Dec 2015 14:08:19 +0000 schrieb Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>: > On Saturday, 5 Dec 2015 at 09:10, Xebar Saram wrote: > > [...] > > > all this is great yet i travel alot to conferences and meeting and > > do rely on a mobile device (in my case a android nexus 6) in many > > situations. I check my emails on it as much as i do on my PC, look > > at upcoming and schedule appointments, look at timed TODOS, add new > > contacts i meet and collect info on the go (web links, food recipes > > etc). > > > > Out of all the things i do only email (via offlineimap and mu4e) > > seems to be able to Sync correctly. > > Yes, this is probably a valid summary of the current state of the art > re: org and Android devices. > > > 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 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. > > I have two different working environments, depending on which mobile > device I use: > > Case 1: if I use an Android device (nexus 4 or 7), I rely on mobileorg > heavily to synchronise my calendar. I have mobileorg suck in any > events I create in Google calendar and export all org events to > Google. This works quite well. However, creating notes etc. on the > mobile device in this case is not ideal as mobileorg is not a full > implementation of org (and, to be fair, it wasn't intended to be). > > Although there is an emacs distribution for Android, I've never really > managed to get it working satisfactorily, with or without a bluetooth > keyboard. Android is a crippled Linux unfortunately... (in my > opinion). > > In the end, I primarily use my nexus devices as phones (really?) and > for facebook (as one must). > > Case 2: this is my preferred mobile solution. I have an OpenPandora > palmtop computer [1] running the full Debian testing distribution with > Emacs and the org from git, not to mention gnus, LaTeX, Libreoffice, > Octave, ... The Pandora has WiFi and bluetooth but not 3/4G > connectivity. I use my phone to tether the Pandora to the 'net when I > need to connect outside a WiFi zone. In this case, the Pandora and my > other systems are fully synchronised using unison. Finally, the > Pandora has 2 full SD slots which allow me to walk around with 128 GB > of disk space. Well, there is hope for Android users, too: I bought an used ASUS TF 101 (but any such android tablet should do) especially to try out various ways to install a real Linux on this class of machines. With linuxdeploy I was able to install a complete Linux (TeX, R, emacs, git, rsync ...) on a *rooted* machine. Using a VNC viewer (bvnc in my case) I get a complete graphical environment. emacs works nicely in the terminal emulater session, too. Linux runs besides Android in a chroot and I`m quite happy with this setup. On another *unrooted* machine (Galaxy Note something) I use gnuroot. Only got it working without X11, but did not try too hard, because solution 1 was working fine. According to the docs I´m just too stupid to get a local X11-server working. Both machines have physical keyboards attached, but in tablet mode using HackersKeyboard emacs is usable, but obviously a keyboard is a Good Thing(tm) for emacs users. May be that helps someone Detlef > > I bought my Pandora specifically because I wanted a full org mobile > experience! I am awaiting the release of the Pyra, the upgrade of the > Pandora, very eagerly indeed! > > Oh, and the Pandora has a fantastic audio system :-) > > Sorry if I have come across as an advert for the Pandora but I am > obviously a satisfied customer. > > HTH, > eric > > > Footnotes: > [1] https://boards.openpandora.org/pandora/pandoramain.html/ > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? 2015-12-05 7:10 syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? Xebar Saram 2015-12-05 14:08 ` Eric S Fraga @ 2015-12-05 18:58 ` Matt Lundin 2015-12-07 10:30 ` Samuel Loury 2016-01-27 14:02 ` syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device Karl Voit 2015-12-06 18:27 ` syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo ` (2 subsequent siblings) 4 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Matt Lundin @ 2015-12-05 18:58 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Xebar Saram; +Cc: org mode Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes: > > 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? There are lots of way to sync calendars. See http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-google-sync.html I've found the easiest method is a "poor man's sync" involving a read-only ics file (exported from org using the org-icalendar-* functions) and a writable calendar for new entries. (Trying to map org entries to ics entries gets messy.) The flow looks something like this: writable calendar (remote calendar for adding new items from android) ----> org files (with new entries pull from remote calendar) ----> read-only calendar (remote ics exported from org) I use a radicale server[fn:1] for this. Radicale has the advantage of using ics files as a backend (rather than a database), so I can pull new entries into org with Eric's ical2org.awk. If you use google calendar you could accomplish something similar with the following workflow: a) Export your org data to an ics file and put it in dropbox. In dropbox, grab a secret link to share that file. b) Point google calendar to the secret link. This will create a read-only calendar in google calendar. c) Script a tool like gcalcli[fn:2] to pull and delete new items from a writable google calendar. Convert the data to org markup and add them to an org file. (This is the part that will involve just a bit of basic shell scripting.) For syncing contacts from BBDB to google or carddav, asynk works well.[fn:3] > 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. For fun (but not much profit) you can set up a chroot linux environment on a rooted android device and install all your favorite software (emacs, org, etc.). See https://github.com/guardianproject/lildebi for instance. By far the easiest way to access org mode is to set up some sort of ssh access to a computer running emacs. There are several good ssh clients for android. The hacker's keyboard app offers all the familiar modifier keys (Ctrl, Alt, etc.) Footnotes: [fn:1] http://radicale.org/ [fn:2] https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli [fn:3] http://asynk.io/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? 2015-12-05 18:58 ` Matt Lundin @ 2015-12-07 10:30 ` Samuel Loury 2016-01-27 14:02 ` syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device Karl Voit 1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Samuel Loury @ 2015-12-07 10:30 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Matt Lundin, Xebar Saram; +Cc: org mode [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1486 bytes --] Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes: > Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes: >> >> 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? > > There are lots of way to sync calendars. See > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-google-sync.html > > I've found the easiest method is a "poor man's sync" involving a > read-only ics file (exported from org using the org-icalendar-* > functions) and a writable calendar for new entries. (Trying to map org > entries to ics entries gets messy.) The flow looks something like this: > > writable calendar (remote calendar for adding new items from android) > ----> org files (with new entries pull from remote calendar) ----> > read-only calendar (remote ics exported from org) > > I use a radicale server[fn:1] for this. Radicale has the advantage of > using ics files as a backend (rather than a database), so I can pull new > entries into org with Eric's ical2org.awk. I do exactly the same thing, also with radicale running in a chrooted debian in my android phone. I am not happy with this solution since it is not bidirectional but I agree it is the easiest method as far as I am concerned. -- Konubinix GPG Key : 7439106A Fingerprint: 5993 BE7A DA65 E2D9 06CE 5C36 75D2 3CED 7439 106A [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 472 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device 2015-12-05 18:58 ` Matt Lundin 2015-12-07 10:30 ` Samuel Loury @ 2016-01-27 14:02 ` Karl Voit 1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Karl Voit @ 2016-01-27 14:02 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-orgmode * Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote: > > If you use google calendar you could accomplish something similar with > the following workflow: > > a) Export your org data to an ics file and put it in dropbox. In > dropbox, grab a secret link to share that file. > > b) Point google calendar to the secret link. This will create a > read-only calendar in google calendar. I was using this method since 2013. Unfortunately, Google stopped fetching my iCal file without any reason I could find. So I stopped using Cloud-based services. > c) Script a tool like gcalcli[fn:2] to pull and delete new items from a > writable google calendar. Convert the data to org markup and add them to > an org file. (This is the part that will involve just a bit of basic > shell scripting.) For now, I only use MobileOrg for capturing stuff on Android and for displaying my agenda which was generated on the big machine. > For fun (but not much profit) you can set up a chroot linux environment > on a rooted android device and install all your favorite software > (emacs, org, etc.). See https://github.com/guardianproject/lildebi for > instance. > > By far the easiest way to access org mode is to set up some sort of ssh > access to a computer running emacs. There are several good ssh clients > for android. The hacker's keyboard app offers all the familiar modifier > keys (Ctrl, Alt, etc.) I tried this approach as well. Unfortunately, the bluetooth HW keyboards I was testing did not provide a method to send Ctrl/Alt/Esc -> no way. With software keyboards (hacker's keyboard) I don't want to use Emacs since the commands are "in my fingers" and with SW keyboards, I have to start remembering the commands to use them slowly. I was reading about the ARM-based mini-computers here. But since my Org is rather slow on my intel i5/16GB RAM, I can't imagine working on such a low performance hardware (again). So far, Org-mode to go is a very unfortunate adventure. -- mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML to Org-mode: > get Memacs from https://github.com/novoid/Memacs < https://github.com/novoid/extract_pdf_annotations_to_orgmode + more on github ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? 2015-12-05 7:10 syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? Xebar Saram 2015-12-05 14:08 ` Eric S Fraga 2015-12-05 18:58 ` Matt Lundin @ 2015-12-06 18:27 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo 2015-12-07 4:00 ` Bob Newell 2015-12-07 9:15 ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte 4 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo @ 2015-12-06 18:27 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-orgmode Xebar Saram writes: > 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 have a computer always running an emacs server, and I connect to it from my android phone using JuiceSSH. To see the org agenda in my google calendar I export every now and then the agenda to an ics file in the cloud using org-icalendar-combined-agenda-file. In google I have the address to that file as one of the calendars (from the calendar "Other calendars", "Add by URL"). -- Jorge. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? 2015-12-05 7:10 syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? Xebar Saram ` (2 preceding siblings ...) 2015-12-06 18:27 ` syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo @ 2015-12-07 4:00 ` Bob Newell 2015-12-07 9:15 ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte 4 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Bob Newell @ 2015-12-07 4:00 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-orgmode I take a slightly different approach. Google calendar is my main calendar and this works across devices including my Android phone and tablet. However I use the old-fashioned emacs diary, which org-mode of course easily incorporates. Diary is simple to work with. When I start up emacs, I use gcalcli and some custom elisp to fetch my Google calendar and regenerate the diary file completely, every time. On exiting emacs, I run a diff (through custom elisp) to find changes to the diary file and again use gcalcli to push those changes back to Google calendar. I don't try to sync contacts or notes bidirectionally. I do use mobileorg to make sure my tablet/smart phone has a copy of all my org-mode stuff. If I do happen to edit on the tablet/smart phone, it's a manual process to put that back to the master, but this is not my usual working mode. I have a lightweight laptop (Asus Zenbook) and carry that whenever possible. Overall I sync to and from a master at strongspace.com, which supports use of rsync. I suppose some day I should get away from diary, but it works really well. -- Bob Newell Honolulu, Hawai`i * Sent via Ma Gnus 0.14-Emacs 24.3-Linux Mint 17.2 * ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? 2015-12-05 7:10 syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? Xebar Saram ` (3 preceding siblings ...) 2015-12-07 4:00 ` Bob Newell @ 2015-12-07 9:15 ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte 4 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Ramon Diaz-Uriarte @ 2015-12-07 9:15 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Xebar Saram; +Cc: org mode 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 -- Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25 Facultad de Medicina Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Arzobispo Morcillo, 4 28029 Madrid Spain Phone: +34-91-497-2412 Email: rdiaz02@gmail.com ramon.diaz@iib.uam.es http://ligarto.org/rdiaz ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
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