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From:
Jing Su <jing.su.66@gmail.com>Date: Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Synchronize files among computers via MobileOrg, and create tasks from iPhones?
To: Erik Iverson <
eriki@ccbr.umn.edu>
Great idea to set the org-directory as the DropBox! I am thinking about trying it too, though keeping two copies in the DropBox is kind of odd. If only there is an iPhone version of the org-mode! or even an Emacs environment! (no, I am not fancying typing M-x org-add-planning-info or C-c C-x C-a, I mean something that can support .elc files)
As for the "notes on iphone" idea, I still have not got used to it. Say when I am fishing outside and receive a phone call from a friend inviting me for a party tonight; I decide to buy some gift on my way home, and invite this friend for dinner next weekend. With the MobileOrg I have to put details into notes, put a reminder on some other calendars for buying the gift, and remember to copy and paste the notes as new tasks tonight -- if I am not drunk or too tired by that time. Or if I can put two items in my org files with reminders, one task for the gift, one project for the dinner next week, then continue fishing in a worry-free mode. Yes, being able to capture notes is great, but allowing creating new tasks would be greater.
I am just curious why such basic functions of the org-mode are not available for MobileOrg -- due to technical issues (no Emacs runtime environment available on iPhones yet), or due to the philosophy that smartphones are not supposed to be used to create new tasks, or currently most smartphone users do not need such functions yet? I feel that smartphones gradually take the role of traditional computers, and it is wise to begin to port most frequently used functions of the org-mode onto smartphones.
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Erik Iverson
<eriki@ccbr.umn.edu> wrote:
Jing Su wrote:
Dear all,
Just curious that if we could push to the MobileOrg server, e.g., DropBox, from a computer, and pull it down from another computer, so that we can synchronize org files on different computers via MobileOrg.
I store all my *actual* org files on Dropbox, along with the Mobile Org
versions. This gives me sync'ing between all my computers with Dropbox
installed.
I used to use CVS for synchronizing, but now SSHing in and out are blocked at my working places, so I can no longer synchronize files between home computers and work computers via ssh+cvs. Could someone kindly suggest some methods to securely synchronize files without ssh please?
This I am not sure about, although some people use org-crypt for this
I think. There is also something called "mobile org crypt" also which
lets you store encrypted org files on Dropbox for viewing on the iphone.
http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg32149.html
It would also be great if more functions of the org-mode (e.g., creating new tasks) can be accessed from an iPhone. I am struggling to decide if I should stay with Org-mode (I love Emacs) or switch to outlook.
!!!
I can access all functions of my online calendars from my iPhone or from Outlook or a web browser on any computer; but for MobileOrg, I have to put things as notes on my iPhone, then do the copy/paste later when I can access my MAIN desktop -- synchronizing org files among computers is painful, as I just explained, so I have to set one as the MAIN desktop for using the org-mode.
Not if you just use Dropbox for storing your actual org files. Also,
there is org-mobile-pull that should pull in any notes captured on
the iPhone and place them in an org file of your choosing for
refiling.
As for calendar, there are tools on the list for synching with
Google calendar, although not from mobile org as far as I know.
Jing Su, PhD