Re: MobileOrg documentation?

[jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo)]

David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com> writes:

> Not looking for complete org functionality in my phone -- just a 
> reasonable ability to edit org outlines while I'm on the road. 
 
Well you can do that with MobileOrg... sort of. Once you edit and 
save a change, synchronize in your phone and then pull from your 
computer (org-mobile-pull). From (info (org) Pulling from 
MobileOrg):

"Some changes are applied directly and without user interaction. 
Examples are all changes to tags, TODO state, headline and body 
text that can be cleanly applied. Entries that have been flagged 
for further action will receive a tag ‘:FLAGGED:’, so that they 
can be easily found again. When there is a problem finding an 
entry or applying the change, the pointer entry will remain in the 
inbox and will be marked with an error message. You need to later 
resolve these issues by hand."

I do not understand when "cleanly applied" is the case, but my 
experience is that resolving "these issues by hand" is the most 
likely outcome. Even simple edits in the text of an entry in my 
phone generally result in errors of synchronization. Note that 
besides adding a comment of when the file was changed in the 
mobile, the local file does not change. Also you can see the 
differences in the files in the from-org-mobile.org file (or 
whatever you set the org-mobile-inbox-for-pull variable to).

Because of this limitation, I am better off just adding simple 
captures on my phone as remainders to do something in my computer, 
even adding information to a certain file. Then, when I 
synchronize in the phone and pull in my computer, the only file 
that changes is from-org-mobile.org, I open that buffer and use 
org-refile to send things to the right place.  Save all org 
buffers, org-mobile-push and repeat.

I you have access by ssh to a computer that is always on, then I 
recommend leaving an emacsclient open and using JuiceSSH of 
ConnectBot for editing your org files on the go.

Best,

-- 
Jorge.