Re: 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 <zeltakc@gmail.com>]

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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
>

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