From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masterson Subject: Best Org to iOS interface? Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:20:00 +0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45726) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gdlJO-0002kk-FZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2018 19:20:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gdlJL-0007r3-Aq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2018 19:20:06 -0500 Received: from mail-oln040092008064.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([40.92.8.64]:46592 helo=NAM03-DM3-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gdlJL-0007on-1h for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2018 19:20:03 -0500 Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" Does anyone have a good setup for the following use-case? I find OrgMode to be extremely powerful tool for task management, but it has limitations with respect to the Apple world. Personally, I am a 30+ year developer (mostly retired) in Unix and have used Emacs off and on for 35+ years (yes, since it was TECO based). I've currently setup Emacs and Orgmode v9.2 under Cygwin on a Windows 10 PC (a little slow, but it works). I'm also using an iPhone with BeOrg for day to day things and syncing my Org files via Dropbox. I like the ability to produce an easy outline and turn it into an HTML website or a PDF document or calendar events or reminders that are all easily backed up in a simple text file. My problem is that my family, although using iPhones, are not terribly computer literate, so I'd like to keep them away from all things Org. This means finding ways to handle the following: 1. Calendar BeOrg has a great connection to the Org files and all the iPhone calendars, but it's still "Org'ish". I'm still evaluating whether I could install it on my family phones and go with that. I'm not sure about the calendar interface yet. The other possibility is to have Org export to Google Calendar and then register the Google Calendar as a Calendar on the iPhones. This is one way and not that flexible in that I can't setup an Org calendar for each family member as well as a general family calendar. 2. Reminders I think, using Shortcuts, I can have BeOrg pipe tagged ToDos to the Reminders list on Apple iPhones. I also think, using Shortcuts, I can pipe reminders from Apple iPhones to BeOrg for adding to Org files. My problem is going to preventing circular recurrence. If this works, then Siri can get involved to add reminders to the Apple reminders list and have it added to Org automatically. Theoretically, sounds doable, but I'm slow at picking up how. 3. Tasks vs Events The problem is how does Org represent events (which would go on the Calendar) versus tasks (which would go in reminders)? -- David