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Re: Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly

#52

I tried using this for a couple of months a while back. I could never get into it, but I wish it all the best.

I understand what you mean even though I use orgzly daily.

I really like the idea but there were a couple of things that made it not work for me. I've now just reverted to iCal for scheduling and tasks.

Re: Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly

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post #49

I'm using Orgzly on my phone now to take notes. I also have Emacs on my various computers, always open on at least one, though I never got into Org-mode much. Now, I'd like to try having the same notes on all devices. Synchthing is mentioned often with Orgzly, so I looked into Syncthing. I've been disappointed to find Syncthing drains the phone battery excessively if you enable continuous (event-driven) two-way sync…

I'm using my fastmail webdav storage. It's accessible from my phone for orgzly, and desktop for Emacs.

Edited to add: In Orgzly Revived go to Settings -> Sync -> Repositories and add https://myfiles.fastmail.com/subfoldername/ (I use "Org")

Re: Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly

#55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Russian war on Ukraine is the term you were looking for.

I do wonder if this is the name that history will stick with. Ukrainian War or even Russo-Ukrainian War (the name for the broader conflict starting in 2014) is shorter.

Russo-Ukrainian war jives better with other historical conflicts.

Re: Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly

#56
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an org-mode limited editor, to have org-mode outside Emacs. Compared to MarkDown and "modern note apps" using it it's like a starship (org-mode) against a bike (MD and modern apps), but Orgzly is limited by the OS/input mode of so it's barely usable. If you want to take notes seriously you need a desktop.

> If you want to take notes seriously you need a desktop. Emacs on android and a keyboard also lets you take notes seriously.

With a significant dose of masochism only... At least, IMVHO...

Re: Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly

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post #49

I'm using Orgzly on my phone now to take notes. I also have Emacs on my various computers, always open on at least one, though I never got into Org-mode much. Now, I'd like to try having the same notes on all devices. Synchthing is mentioned often with Orgzly, so I looked into Syncthing. I've been disappointed to find Syncthing drains the phone battery excessively if you enable continuous (event-driven) two-way sync…

I use https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android which has an option to run only every X minutes of each hour, as a decent tradeoff.

This version also ships and Android Quick Settings tile that will start Syncthing for those X minutes and stop it outside of that schedule, so I'll hit the button as I'm putting on shoes to go out after making a shopping list on my phone or what have you

Re: Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly

#58

How does it compare to other note taking apps like Obsidian, Notion, Joplin etc? I used Joplin for about a year and ended up taking a lot of notes. But after a year it was so full of garbage that I found it increasingly difficult to keep things tagged, clearing my "inbox" of quickly taken notes. And it ended up looking like my work email inbox. The catalyst for giving it up was a subtle policy change at work that mad…

After trying all the digital options I’m on to a pocket notebook. I carry it instead of a wallet. Great for jotting down that half thought or random todo. Long running tasks that get rewritten enough times get put in the calendar or a reminder. Anything else that seems important goes in the personal wiki of choice but honestly a lot of the notes are just ephemeral and don’t survive when I switch to a new notebook. An…

I tried that too, but the RM2 was just a larger, more expensive version of that. The problem is that you can't index, search, share, back up etc. I have up after about 10 pages.

That said, my wife bought a hardback diary/planner that has a really nice layout for days/weeks and she uses it every evening.

Re: Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly

#59
post #49

I'm using Orgzly on my phone now to take notes. I also have Emacs on my various computers, always open on at least one, though I never got into Org-mode much. Now, I'd like to try having the same notes on all devices. Synchthing is mentioned often with Orgzly, so I looked into Syncthing. I've been disappointed to find Syncthing drains the phone battery excessively if you enable continuous (event-driven) two-way sync…

I'm using my fastmail webdav storage. It's accessible from my phone for orgzly, and desktop for Emacs. Edited to add: In Orgzly Revived go to Settings -> Sync -> Repositories and add https://myfiles.fastmail.com/subfoldername/ (I use "Org")

Thanks your your input. You made me realize I can use my Hetzner storage box for precisely the same. Neat!

Re: Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly

#60
post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bullshit.

American weapons, American ISR, American planning, American funding... US politicians talk about a "good investment" and "to the last Ukrainian". I don't understand how you could NOT call it a US-proxy war.

Yeah. A proxy war doesn't mean that Ukraine doesn't deserve to be free.

We care about Ukraine and its people, the US care about money and power.

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