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Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

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Re: Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

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post #7

This looks cool! But could you (if you are the author?) please restrict the Google Drive permissions from “See, edit, create and delete all of your Google Drive files” to only affect a sub directory of my drive please? That’s best practice for isolation. Thanks!

not the author, just a non-techy person who wants to try org mode without the complexity of emacs.

Re: Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

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post #11
post #7

This looks cool! But could you (if you are the author?) please restrict the Google Drive permissions from “See, edit, create and delete all of your Google Drive files” to only affect a sub directory of my drive please? That’s best practice for isolation. Thanks!

not the author, just a non-techy person who wants to try org mode without the complexity of emacs.

A non-techy person who has heard of emacs!

Re: Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

#13
Hey all, I’m the author of org-web. It was pretty cool to wake up this morning and see this on the front page (thanks moioci!). If you’re interested in taking org-web for a spin you can try it here: https://org-web.org/

There’s a sample file you can play around with there if you’re not ready to link to a sync backend yet.

Happy to answer any questions!

Re: Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

#14
"Org-mode is a document editing, formatting, and organizing mode, designed for notes, planning, and authoring within the free software text editor Emacs."

In case anyone else wasn't sure what this was, and isn't an Emacs user.

Re: Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

#15
post #7

This looks cool! But could you (if you are the author?) please restrict the Google Drive permissions from “See, edit, create and delete all of your Google Drive files” to only affect a sub directory of my drive please? That’s best practice for isolation. Thanks!

Yep, I should’ve done that in the first place, and it’s on my todo list, though I haven’t put many hours into org-web lately. In the meantime, you can always host the project yourself if that makes you feel a bit more comfortable about linking to GDrive (though this doesn’t solve every potential privacy issue, of course)

Re: Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

#16

Hey all, I’m the author of org-web. It was pretty cool to wake up this morning and see this on the front page (thanks moioci!). If you’re interested in taking org-web for a spin you can try it here: https://org-web.org/ There’s a sample file you can play around with there if you’re not ready to link to a sync backend yet. Happy to answer any questions!

This is awesome!

FYI, it looks like the add/delete row/column buttons have their targets reversed? The button whose icon suggests "add row" adds a column, etc.

Re: Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

#17
post #2

looks nice! though the focus on proprietary API-based backends (?!) is a bit puzzling? how about commiting to a git repo on the web server. Running within nextcloud?

I think those are great ideas, I just haven’t gotten around to them yet. This was largely a scratch-your-own-itch kind of project for me, and I sync my org file with Dropbox, so that was my priority.

Re: Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

#18
post #4

what % of the org-mode API is currently implemented?

Author here - I’m not sure % wise, but quite a few features now have first-class support. Those that don’t simply fall back to plain text, which you can always resort to editing directly in org-web. You can see a list of the implemented features (and try them yourself) in the sample file here: https://org-web.org/

Re: Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

#19

"Org-mode is a document editing, formatting, and organizing mode, designed for notes, planning, and authoring within the free software text editor Emacs." In case anyone else wasn't sure what this was, and isn't an Emacs user.

You can use orgmode in other editors. I use vim, for instance. (Yes, the "official" module is only for emacs, but orgmode is a format and other editors have plugins for it as well.)

Re: Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

#20

"Org-mode is a document editing, formatting, and organizing mode, designed for notes, planning, and authoring within the free software text editor Emacs." In case anyone else wasn't sure what this was, and isn't an Emacs user.

You can use orgmode in other editors. I use vim, for instance. (Yes, the "official" module is only for emacs, but orgmode is a format and other editors have plugins for it as well.)

Good to know -- my vim setup has been pretty static for a decade now, I should probably take a peek to see what I can change every once in a while.
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