I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling
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Re: I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling
#2Interesting to see habits tracked using an org property drawer. I hadn't considered this before. Org itself has habit-tracking support https://orgmode.org/manual/Tracking-your-habits.html using :STYLE: habit.
I'm head-in org land. For habit-tracking, I found removing friction from the tracking process itself absolutely fundmental for longer term success (Atomic Habits, the book, corroborates). Like the author, I also needed mobile access for this. I built https://flathabits.com (powered by org) for this purpose (iOS only). In the end, I found I hardly used Emacs org mode to view or track my habits since the mobile app removed all the trakcing friction. Now I just get peace of mind knowing that I can access the plain text file if I want to.
ps. I also built another org mode app for iOS https://plainorg.com
Re: I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling
#3I did a lot of time logging for orgmode. It was great if ones task are all done on a single computer.
I found trying to synchronise across devices tedious and made me stop logging.
Re: I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling
#4I did a lot of time logging for orgmode. It was great if ones task are all done on a single computer. I found trying to synchronise across devices tedious and made me stop logging.
Just log into a remote shell and execute emacs-org-mode from there. Like, remote shells are free 2022, no? I agree that if all the devices can't generalize to one source then it isn't as rewarding.
Re: I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling
#5I did a lot of time logging for orgmode. It was great if ones task are all done on a single computer. I found trying to synchronise across devices tedious and made me stop logging.
My current setup is also slightly dissatisfying in that regard. What's nice (or rather a consolation) about orgzly - the mobile app I use - is that upon conflict, it explicitly offers to either choose the remote or the local version. At first I was worried it would simply attempt to always overwrite based on the local version.
Re: I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling
#6I did a lot of time logging for orgmode. It was great if ones task are all done on a single computer. I found trying to synchronise across devices tedious and made me stop logging.
Just log into a remote shell and execute emacs-org-mode from there. Like, remote shells are free 2022, no? I agree that if all the devices can't generalize to one source then it isn't as rewarding.
Cool idea! I do like to be able to work on it offline, e.g. on planes, though.
Re: I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling
#7Interesting to see as an entire submission rather than just every other comment.
Re: I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling
#8I did a lot of time logging for orgmode. It was great if ones task are all done on a single computer. I found trying to synchronise across devices tedious and made me stop logging.
My current setup is also slightly dissatisfying in that regard. What's nice (or rather a consolation) about orgzly - the mobile app I use - is that upon conflict, it explicitly offers to either choose the remote or the local version. At first I was worried it would simply attempt to always overwrite based on the local version.
It combines even more nicely with Syncthing, which creates a copy on conflict, which can then easily be merged with ediff-files once I get back to a computer.
Re: I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling
#9I tried using Org and Org-Roam for a while, but I think I gave up on it. The overhead of constantly updating and fiddling to make your config comply with the updates didn't seem worth it. The alternative would be to just stay on an old version, but that goes against my principles of running a rolling release distribution. And hell, if you decided to update after a year or two, you could probably start over with most of your configuration, rather than trying to understand the updates.
Re: I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling
#10I did a lot of time logging for orgmode. It was great if ones task are all done on a single computer. I found trying to synchronise across devices tedious and made me stop logging.
Started using org-mode a few months ago.
I keep my notes and todo list in a self-hosted git repository.
On desktop I use Magit to push/pull changes.
On Android I cloned the repository in Termux and pointed Orgzly to it. This wasn't absolutely trivial, can provide details if needed. Also created some convenience scripts for git operations (commit-and-push, pull, check status). Now I can push/pull changes with singe-letter commands in Termux.
I find the friction to be low enough. Using git is also very convenient to resolve any conflicts in case I forget to push or pull some changes.