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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 by mshroyer »

secure wrote: 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!

I'd recommend the author use the OAuth 2.0 scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file ("View and manage Google Drive files and folders that you have opened or created with this app") instead of https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive ("See, edit, create, and delete all of your Google Drive files"), if/when they get a chance to work on this.

Anyway, this is really cool and totally fills a niche for me (90% of the time I want to edit org files in Emacs on my computer, but sometimes I need remote access). So I'm really happy to see this exists.

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

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Post by michaelmrose »

pizza wrote: post #47
michaelmrose wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Vim addon isn't unofficial its a different program inspired by org mode that implements some of the features. The difference between having multiple implementations of a standard and multiple similar tools is that you really can't access the same data from multiple programs or share data with users using a different app.

People who want to try out org-mode but are familiar with vim shortcuts may want to check out spacemacs, it's an emacs distribution built to be useful for vim users. That way you can try out the real org-mode.

I see a lot of spacemacs users that seem rather confused on emacs basics. Makes me think you would be better of learning emacs, adding evil to the mix. Then using a starter kit if desired.

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

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Post by DanielDe »

serpentines wrote: post #44
DanielDe wrote: post #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!

I'm unable to login through the Google Drive link on mobile, seems the image loads butbit doesn't click through (i.e. clicking on the image does nothing). Tried this in Firefox (with and without uMatrix and/or UBO) and Firefox Klar and Google Chrome (with JavaScript enabled).

Ah bummer, something must've broken. I'll try to check that out tonight! Thanks for the report!

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

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Post by DanielDe »

dilap wrote: post #30

i'm a heavy emacs user but ive never been able to really grok org mode. what makes it special?

org-mode works well for me because I already use (and live in) Emacs. Since its just plain text, all the ways I'm used to manipulating text work great in org-mode too.

I also dabble with elisp a bit and that fits in nicely here too. For instance, I wrote a really simple command to "mark this todo as done and move it to the bottom of this list".

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

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Post by DanielDe »

jalopy wrote: post #33

Currently keyboard shortcut ^n is opening a new window; how do I get it to navigate to next header?

Yeah, the keyboard shortcut system is a bit buggy. I haven't put much work into it since I figure when you're at a desktop you'll be using Emacs anyway. You can, however, change the keyboard shortcuts in settings. Maybe that'll help you here?

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

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Post by DanielDe »

mruts wrote: post #23
DanielDe wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

Is there support for in line images and LaTeX? I haven’t tried org-web but this looks seriously awesome! Good work!

Not currently, no.

Thanks so much!

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

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Post by fipar »

gryffin wrote: post #12
moioci wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

I think org-mode has contributed a lot to making emacs more popular (or less obscure, depending on how you see it? :) )

See this for example: https://github.com/incandescentman/Emacs-Settings

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