Re: MobileOrg for Android starts to become really usable

[Matthew Jones <bsdmatburt@gmail.com>]

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I do plan on adding DropBox support but would like to get some other
features working first.

73,
Matthew W. Jones (KI4ZIB)
http://matburt.net


On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Do you plan to add dropbox support into mobileorg-android?
> That would be just great!
>
> Thank you anyway for your efforts, even if dropbox gets dropped!
>
> Detlef
>
> On Fri, 28 May 2010 14:40:05 -0400
> Matthew Jones <bsdmatburt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Sven, thanks for the wonderful feedback.  MobileOrg Android does attach a
> > timestamp to the note (similar to what the iphone version does, just
> below
> > the headline) but anything else you want as part of the heading you do
> have
> > to type manually.
> >
> > I haven't yet published a roadmap because I've been on this frenetic pace
> to
> > try to get close to feature parity with the iPhone version.   I'm
> currently
> > working on giving you the ability to change TODO states... this is a bit
> of
> > a challenge because of how I store each of the org files.   Richard's
> iPhone
> > version actually reads the contents of the file into a database (I think?
> >  Or at least... some other data structure) which lends itself well to the
> > org-mobile-push model where an updated heading just gets pushed into the
> > mobileorg.org file.    When I wrote my implementation I had not fully
> > grasped that concept yet so I just store the file and parse it on-demand
> as
> > you drill down into your file's contents.   In order to support editing
> > files and changing TODO states, I need to switch to Richard's model of
> > storing the components that make up the file instead of trying to parse
> it
> > on-demand.
> >
> > Once I have this finished I plan to release the Beta, and at the same
> time
> > push the application into the Android Market (still free and open source,
> > mind you) as well as release comprehensive documentation.   I think
> (hope)
> > that I can put the information on Richard's site dedicated to his version
> of
> > MobileOrg and have his documentation be valid and easily understood for
> both
> > version.
> >
> > 73,
> > Matthew W. Jones (KI4ZIB)
> > http://matburt.net
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi to all, hi Matthew
> > >
> > > I had a look at matburt's Github today and found the new
> 0.4alpha-build.
> > > Now, MobOrg4And supports the capturing of notes. That's what I was
> > > waiting for all the time. I can say that Note capturing works on my HTC
> > > Magic, albeit I had little time so far to test it more than once or
> > > twice.
> > >
> > > I just wanted to say thank you very much!
> > >
> > > Note taking is rudimentary at the moment. As far as I can see, you have
> > > to type todo-keywords, tags and active timestamps manually. But that
> > > doesn't matter too much at the moment. The current alternatives (RTM,
> > > Toodledo) have similar inconveniences. However, in MobOrg4And we are in
> > > our familiar org-syntax, so /everything/ can be done without complex
> > > awk/sed
> > > operations after syncing.
> > >
> > > @Matthew: Do you have some kind of roadmap published anywhere?
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > Sven
> > >
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