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The last few days I have been getting my teeth back into org-mode. It was originally one of the best parts about using Emacs over vim. Since I have to carry aro

The last few days I have been getting my teeth back into org-mode. It was originally one of the best parts about using Emacs over vim. Since I have to carry around a mobile device (or tablet) it's become much less useful to me. In fact to get the same experience I have been using a bullet journal[1] for a year or two now. I want to love org-mode, but I spent the better part of a week using it to write a deck only to find out it's a huge pain to export to PPT. I know this is off topic as the post is about org-trello, but org-mode as a whole needs to take what org-trello does awesome and integrate with mobile/cloud services more! I would love to hear from a hardcore org-mode user. I haven't found someone I could talk to and pick their brain. [1]: http://www.bulletjournal.com http://www.bulletjournal.com

gregorycarter 11y ago
Have you come across Orgzly? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orgzly https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orgzly I found it last week while trying to get started on Org Mode and being frustrated by the poor mobile apps. So far Orgzly has been pretty good. (No link whatsoever to the developers BTW, just a user)
- boothead 11y ago
  That looks pretty cool. I had a play with orgs agenda a while back, but the lack of integration with devices made it less useful than it could have been.
- johnbellone 11y ago
  Unfortunately I'm not an Android user, but this looks really awesome. I'm up for a new device soon and if this works as advertised I may make the leap. Thanks!
- jarel 11y ago
  I started using orgzly last week. I like it so far. I hope the next version includes note folding.
- TeMPOraL 11y ago
  Did someone finally made an usable app for org-mode? Thanks for linking!
agentultra 11y ago
I've used org-mode to publish books, pocket mods, invoice clients, run tabletop games, organize links and snippets... while text is supposedly the universal interface in the Unix world it does have limitations when it comes to sharing information across devices. I carry my laptop with me so this isn't a problem for me but I know it's there and not yet solved. A mobile org-mode client with cloud sharing would go a long way.
- berntb 11y ago
  Please check my hobby, I hope to start writing on it again this summer: https://github.com/berntb/attorg https://github.com/berntb/attorg (Yes, I'm hellbanned. :-) Too easily trolled when I have allergy problems.)
- markhellewell 11y ago
  MobileOrg[1] was good for a while—it had Dropbox and WebDAV support—but it hasn’t had an update in a couple of years and is badly in need of a new maintainer. [1] https://github.com/MobileOrg/mobileorg https://github.com/MobileOrg/mobileorg
  - TeMPOraL 11y ago
    Dropbox support was cool, but I recall MobileOrg being buggy to the point of making it completely useless, not to mention pretty bad UI. This project really needs some love.
  - flyrain 11y ago
    It is cool to support Dropbox, but I never make it work since it's buggy.
  - ibrahima 11y ago
    Recently someone has made a new client called Orgzly[1] which is actually really well designed. Sync works well enough for me over Dropbox, though I'd really rather use ssh. I guess overall there's a little impedance mismatch between Org-mode plaintext and mobile interfaces but overall I think it works well. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orgzly https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orgzly
brudgers 11y ago
Just out of curiosity, is Power Point really a critical component of your use? Don't get me wrong, there are advantages to using PowerPoint. But the big goal is to prepare information with a computer and then to present that information in various forms. In terms of the big goal, PowerPoint compatibility can be an XY problem. It's one possible means [and perhaps the best means] to the end. There are alternatives...and all this was a round about way to point out Racket's SlideShow library. http://docs.racket-lang.org/slideshow/index.html http://docs.racket-lang.org/slideshow/index.html
- johnbellone 11y ago
  Yes, it absolutely is.
  - brudgers 11y ago
    What makes PowerPoint the priority in your workflow?
- unhammer 11y ago
  https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal/ https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal/ is also pretty nice for exporting from org-mode to a shiny HTML5 presentation
mmaul 11y ago
Regarding the Power Point thing you might want to check out Beamer. It is a extension for publishing presentations from org mode. http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/beamer/tutorial.html http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/beamer/tutorial.html
dddrh 11y ago
I've also been using the bullet journal format for the better part of a year. It's a phenomenal way to stay organized and keep information at hand. It makes quick capture easy and I don't have to worry about losing where I put it later. If you think in lists or bullet points and have had success with mindmaps then give the bullet journal a try.
bachmeier 11y ago
I use org-mode every single day for scheduling and programming. The problem I've got with org-mode is that it is the most unstable project I've ever seen that wasn't considered to be in beta status. Not only do they change things all the time, making old documentation useless, they'll break things and provide no documentation. For example, I used to use Beamer export for presentations. Then they changed to the new exporter without giving any explanation of how to use it. I now use Pandoc for things like presentations. It just works for the most part. And importantly, there's actually documentation, as opposed to scraps scattered around the internet that might sort of do what you need if they're sufficiently recent.
catern 11y ago
I used to think I had the same problem. I tried to make sure everything I used could be used in a full-fledged way on my phone. But eventually I realized: This isn't a problem with org-mode, it's a problem with the shitty state of software on mobile devices. And laptops are a good enough way to keep org-mode with me at all times. So I just gave in and used it.

gregorycarter 11y ago

Have you come across Orgzly? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orgzly https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orgzly I found it last week while trying to get started on Org Mode and being frustrated by the poor mobile apps. So far Orgzly has been pretty good. (No link whatsoever to the developers BTW, just a user)

boothead 11y ago
That looks pretty cool. I had a play with orgs agenda a while back, but the lack of integration with devices made it less useful than it could have been.
johnbellone 11y ago
Unfortunately I'm not an Android user, but this looks really awesome. I'm up for a new device soon and if this works as advertised I may make the leap. Thanks!
jarel 11y ago
I started using orgzly last week. I like it so far. I hope the next version includes note folding.
TeMPOraL 11y ago
Did someone finally made an usable app for org-mode? Thanks for linking!

agentultra 11y ago

I've used org-mode to publish books, pocket mods, invoice clients, run tabletop games, organize links and snippets... while text is supposedly the universal interface in the Unix world it does have limitations when it comes to sharing information across devices. I carry my laptop with me so this isn't a problem for me but I know it's there and not yet solved. A mobile org-mode client with cloud sharing would go a long way.

berntb 11y ago
Please check my hobby, I hope to start writing on it again this summer: https://github.com/berntb/attorg https://github.com/berntb/attorg (Yes, I'm hellbanned. :-) Too easily trolled when I have allergy problems.)
markhellewell 11y ago
MobileOrg[1] was good for a while—it had Dropbox and WebDAV support—but it hasn’t had an update in a couple of years and is badly in need of a new maintainer. [1] https://github.com/MobileOrg/mobileorg https://github.com/MobileOrg/mobileorg
- TeMPOraL 11y ago
  Dropbox support was cool, but I recall MobileOrg being buggy to the point of making it completely useless, not to mention pretty bad UI. This project really needs some love.
- flyrain 11y ago
  It is cool to support Dropbox, but I never make it work since it's buggy.
- ibrahima 11y ago
  Recently someone has made a new client called Orgzly[1] which is actually really well designed. Sync works well enough for me over Dropbox, though I'd really rather use ssh. I guess overall there's a little impedance mismatch between Org-mode plaintext and mobile interfaces but overall I think it works well. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orgzly https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orgzly

brudgers 11y ago

Just out of curiosity, is Power Point really a critical component of your use? Don't get me wrong, there are advantages to using PowerPoint. But the big goal is to prepare information with a computer and then to present that information in various forms. In terms of the big goal, PowerPoint compatibility can be an XY problem. It's one possible means [and perhaps the best means] to the end. There are alternatives...and all this was a round about way to point out Racket's SlideShow library. http://docs.racket-lang.org/slideshow/index.html http://docs.racket-lang.org/slideshow/index.html

johnbellone 11y ago
Yes, it absolutely is.
- brudgers 11y ago
  What makes PowerPoint the priority in your workflow?
unhammer 11y ago
https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal/ https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal/ is also pretty nice for exporting from org-mode to a shiny HTML5 presentation

mmaul 11y ago

Regarding the Power Point thing you might want to check out Beamer. It is a extension for publishing presentations from org mode. http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/beamer/tutorial.html http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/beamer/tutorial.html

dddrh 11y ago

I've also been using the bullet journal format for the better part of a year. It's a phenomenal way to stay organized and keep information at hand. It makes quick capture easy and I don't have to worry about losing where I put it later. If you think in lists or bullet points and have had success with mindmaps then give the bullet journal a try.

bachmeier 11y ago

I use org-mode every single day for scheduling and programming. The problem I've got with org-mode is that it is the most unstable project I've ever seen that wasn't considered to be in beta status. Not only do they change things all the time, making old documentation useless, they'll break things and provide no documentation. For example, I used to use Beamer export for presentations. Then they changed to the new exporter without giving any explanation of how to use it. I now use Pandoc for things like presentations. It just works for the most part. And importantly, there's actually documentation, as opposed to scraps scattered around the internet that might sort of do what you need if they're sufficiently recent.

catern 11y ago

I used to think I had the same problem. I tried to make sure everything I used could be used in a full-fledged way on my phone. But eventually I realized: This isn't a problem with org-mode, it's a problem with the shitty state of software on mobile devices. And laptops are a good enough way to keep org-mode with me at all times. So I just gave in and used it.