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Fogus, you say that you use an iPad when you are on the move. Do you edit your .org files with the iPad? If yes, how do you do it? On a virtual server with a ss

by pqs 14y ago

Fogus, you say that you use an iPad when you are on the move. Do you edit your .org files with the iPad? If yes, how do you do it? On a virtual server with a ssh client? I organize my whole life with Org-mode. I use it as a todo list, project management tool and agenda. I also use it to write documents and scientific papers and presentations, which I export to .tex. Not being able to edit my agenda from an iPad is really what prevents me to buy one (I would probably also buy a bluetooth keyboard). There is mobileorg, but I think it is not maintained any more, at least the iOS version. I could also ssh to a virtual server, but I'm not comfortable having all my agenda files on such a machine, because of security and privacy concerns.

fredsted 14y ago
>I could also ssh to a virtual server, but I'm not comfortable having all my agenda files on such a machine, because of security and privacy concerns. You could encrypt it or SSH into your own machine.
- pqs 14y ago
  Encrypting the files is not an optin, as I would run them on the virtual server. SSH-ing my own machine could be an option, but I don't like the idea of exposing my own machine to the net this way. Maybe I'm paranoid.
fogus 14y ago
I could never get mobileorg to work. In any case I use SimpleNote (http://simplenote.com/ http://simplenote.com/). Sorry that I didn't mention that.
boothead 14y ago
I used iwriter (which is lovely) to bang out some text on my iPad and save it to .txt files on Dropbox. I post processed into org-mode in emacs afterwards. iWriter won't recognise the .org suffix by default, but that didn't matter to me because the iPad keyboard is useless for writing #* and other characters - WMMV if you have an external keyboard I guess. The nice thing is that all of my book related .org files also live in Dropbox as does the output pdf so I can read the output on the train too.
- pqs 14y ago
  Yes. I think this is the most reasonable option. I could also automatically export my agenda to a pdf, which I could read, but not modify, on the iPad, using Dropbox. Then, I should post-process everything to update my org-mode files. The other option would be to buy a Windows 8 tablet (like the ThinkPad Helix), which can run Emacs. But Windows ... that would be a sacrifice ;-)

by pqs 14y ago

fredsted 14y ago

>I could also ssh to a virtual server, but I'm not comfortable having all my agenda files on such a machine, because of security and privacy concerns. You could encrypt it or SSH into your own machine.

pqs 14y ago
Encrypting the files is not an optin, as I would run them on the virtual server. SSH-ing my own machine could be an option, but I don't like the idea of exposing my own machine to the net this way. Maybe I'm paranoid.

fogus 14y ago

I could never get mobileorg to work. In any case I use SimpleNote (http://simplenote.com/ http://simplenote.com/). Sorry that I didn't mention that.

boothead 14y ago

I used iwriter (which is lovely) to bang out some text on my iPad and save it to .txt files on Dropbox. I post processed into org-mode in emacs afterwards. iWriter won't recognise the .org suffix by default, but that didn't matter to me because the iPad keyboard is useless for writing #* and other characters - WMMV if you have an external keyboard I guess. The nice thing is that all of my book related .org files also live in Dropbox as does the output pdf so I can read the output on the train too.

pqs 14y ago
Yes. I think this is the most reasonable option. I could also automatically export my agenda to a pdf, which I could read, but not modify, on the iPad, using Dropbox. Then, I should post-process everything to update my org-mode files. The other option would be to buy a Windows 8 tablet (like the ThinkPad Helix), which can run Emacs. But Windows ... that would be a sacrifice ;-)