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I actually started using orgmode completely outside of Emacs. The beginning workflow was VS Code, and I certainly appreciate your note about the partially impl
by bloopernova 8y ago
I actually started using orgmode completely outside of Emacs.
The beginning workflow was VS Code, and I certainly appreciate your note about the partially implemented featureset of most orgmode non-Emacs clients.
I then discovered Orgzly (http://www.orgzly.com/ http://www.orgzly.com/) which I hooked up to VS Code using Drop Box free. Orgzly is fantastic and supports a lot more of orgmode than most clients. (edited to add: orgzly is an android app)
Now, however, I've dropped VS Code in favour of Emacs running on either Windows 10 or OS X terminals. There's a decent cheat sheet (https://orgmode.org/orgcard.pdf https://orgmode.org/orgcard.pdf) that I refer to a lot.
So my advice would be to give orgmode a try using Orgzly at first, then get a simple instance of Emacs going and use the cheat sheet to make things easier to learn and dip into. I think the push to try to do things outside of Emacs is throwing away the orgmode original codebase baby with the Emacs bathwater. I know Emacs is considered scarier even than vim, but for my simple use case it works well. It was even fairly easy to get the org-jira plugin working to pull my Jira tickets into TODO items.
- lucideer 8y ago> Now, however, I've dropped VS Code in favour of Emacs I've tried on VS Code and also given up (on Org, not on vscode, which was far more central to my workflow than Org was). I'd tried SyncOrg on Android, but had not heard of Orgzly. I see from your link it's on FDroid—just retried doing a search on FDroid for 'org-mode' to see what else is out there that I missed, and nothing comes up (neither SyncOrg not Orgzly). FDroid really need to fix their search, and/or makes of those clients really need to fix their metadata; not sure which. I may give Orgzly a go, but tbh without decent desktop client (short of switching to Emacs, which I shan't be doing), I'm not sure how worthwhile it will be. I may try some pandoc automation...
- dmix 8y agoIs the F-Droid apk search different than their website? It returns Orgzly in results for both "org-mode" and "Orgzly": https://search.f-droid.org/?q=orgzly&lang=en https://search.f-droid.org/?q=orgzly&lang=en https://search.f-droid.org/?q=org-mode&lang=en https://search.f-droid.org/?q=org-mode&lang=en
- jhasse 8y agoSeems so. orgmode works in the app, but org-mode returns nothing.
- bloopernova 8y ago> short of switching to Emacs, which I shan't be doing I only use Emacs for org-mode stuff so far. For pretty much anything else I'm using VS Code. If you're interested, the ~/.emacs file I use is at https://gist.github.com/anthonyclarka2/28543be1a5cbebd0d3d96b85f7d19f08 https://gist.github.com/anthonyclarka2/28543be1a5cbebd0d3d96...
- proxygeek 8y agoOrgzly is really grast in terms of feature support and minimalistic UI. I only wish it supported time logging as well, which I use fairly regularly. Along with SyncThing and Emacs in laptop, that's my preferred organising system for the last 6 months or so.
- wowtip 8y agoDoes Orgzly work with Syncthing out of the box now? Last time I tried Orgzly it only used Dropbox for sync, which is what made me drop it at that time.
- bloopernova 8y agoAs far as I know, Orgzly still only works with Dropbox, which is a shame. I wish I had the programming skill to add that support, since Orgzly is open source. However, Orgzly can sync with local directories on your Android device, so could Syncthing work via that route?
- meko 8y agoNot sure what you mean by 'out of the box', but orgzly supports local directory syncing which can indeed be used in conjunction. Source: this is my setup.