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If you are on Windows, my understanding is that it's pretty easy to create a portable emacs setup that you store in, say, your Dropbox or $preferred-sync-platfo

If you are on Windows, my understanding is that it's pretty easy to create a portable emacs setup that you store in, say, your Dropbox or $preferred-sync-platform that would keep things central. But yeah, otherwise, it's a problem. I've grown very dependent on org and emacs, but access anywhere but my two laptops is kind of painful and kludgy. I can use BeOrg, but BeOrg seems to have been built to support an orgmode use pattern that is very different from mine. I can also ssh into my Ubuntu vm from my iPad, and obviously THAT experience is fine, but it's also more of a production than I'd really like if I just want to briefly interact with the org files.

throwanem 6y ago
Honestly, I don't really try to integrate everything into Org-mode. I use it very heavily for planning and tasking of programming projects, for example, because if I'm programming something, I'm already doing that in Emacs anyway. Likewise for time tracking in contract work, or projects where that's othwrwise needed. And I use Org for writing, for much the same reason: I do that in Emacs, anyway. But for general-purpose calendaring, reminders, and so on, it's much easier and more convenient to just run a CalDAV/CardDAV service that everything else integrates with OOTB. I do keep my ~/org in Dropbox and have a phone app I can use to make quick edits, and which I have used for longer writing on trains and such. But it's definitely not a first-class UI, and I don't try to use it as such. (On the other hand, I'm getting ready to redo my blog in Jekyll rather than Wordpress, not least to improve the authoring workflow by being able to bring it into Emacs...)
- ubermonkey 6y ago
  We're in kind of the same place. Org is indispensable for my work life, but it's not EVERYTHING and isn't the core of my overall life, because it's not really a great option for on-the-go. I use an Exchange calendar for work, and I don't have appointments as part of my agenda in Org. I carry a notebook with me when I'm out and about for jotting things down. Like you, I can get to my corpus of org files via Dropbox from my phone and whatever editor I want to use there, but that's more of an "in a pinch" kind of use case than anything I'd want to do on the regular. If I need to write something real on the go, I just do it in Notes on the iPad, and then migrate it into org if that's where it needs to go when I'm back at my computer. I still blog, too, but I use a dedicated tool called MarsEdit on my Mac to do it. I haven't seen a reason to move that into Emacs, though I'm sure it's technically possible.

throwanem 6y ago

Honestly, I don't really try to integrate everything into Org-mode. I use it very heavily for planning and tasking of programming projects, for example, because if I'm programming something, I'm already doing that in Emacs anyway. Likewise for time tracking in contract work, or projects where that's othwrwise needed. And I use Org for writing, for much the same reason: I do that in Emacs, anyway. But for general-purpose calendaring, reminders, and so on, it's much easier and more convenient to just run a CalDAV/CardDAV service that everything else integrates with OOTB. I do keep my ~/org in Dropbox and have a phone app I can use to make quick edits, and which I have used for longer writing on trains and such. But it's definitely not a first-class UI, and I don't try to use it as such. (On the other hand, I'm getting ready to redo my blog in Jekyll rather than Wordpress, not least to improve the authoring workflow by being able to bring it into Emacs...)

ubermonkey 6y ago
We're in kind of the same place. Org is indispensable for my work life, but it's not EVERYTHING and isn't the core of my overall life, because it's not really a great option for on-the-go. I use an Exchange calendar for work, and I don't have appointments as part of my agenda in Org. I carry a notebook with me when I'm out and about for jotting things down. Like you, I can get to my corpus of org files via Dropbox from my phone and whatever editor I want to use there, but that's more of an "in a pinch" kind of use case than anything I'd want to do on the regular. If I need to write something real on the go, I just do it in Notes on the iPad, and then migrate it into org if that's where it needs to go when I'm back at my computer. I still blog, too, but I use a dedicated tool called MarsEdit on my Mac to do it. I haven't seen a reason to move that into Emacs, though I'm sure it's technically possible.