Thx Eric I am also really looking forward to the new Pyra, im seriously considering buying it when it comes out :D it seems that that would be the easiest solution to orgmode on the go. shame i will have to carry 2 devices though, brings me back to the days of a crappy cell and a PDA :)
best Z On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > On Saturday, 5 Dec 2015 at 09:10, Xebar Saram wrote: > > [...] > > > all this is great yet i travel alot to conferences and meeting and do > rely > > on a mobile device (in my case a android nexus 6) in many situations. I > > check my emails on it as much as i do on my PC, look at upcoming and > > schedule appointments, look at timed TODOS, add new contacts i meet and > > collect info on the go (web links, food recipes etc). > > > > Out of all the things i do only email (via offlineimap and mu4e) seems to > > be able to Sync correctly. > > Yes, this is probably a valid summary of the current state of the art > re: org and Android devices. > > > So my question is (sorry for the long intro :)) what do orgmode users > (who > > also are heavy mobile users) do? do they give up on contacts and > > calendaring on the mobile? maintain 2 separate databases? what tools do > > people use to overcome this issue? > > > > I once had a nokia n900 which ran basically Debian linux, and thus emacs > > could be run naively , these days it seems like all are android devices. > I > > still haven't found a gui friendly way to run emacs there. > > I have two different working environments, depending on which mobile > device I use: > > Case 1: if I use an Android device (nexus 4 or 7), I rely on mobileorg > heavily to synchronise my calendar. I have mobileorg suck in any > events I create in Google calendar and export all org events to > Google. This works quite well. However, creating notes etc. on the > mobile device in this case is not ideal as mobileorg is not a full > implementation of org (and, to be fair, it wasn't intended to be). > > Although there is an emacs distribution for Android, I've never really > managed to get it working satisfactorily, with or without a bluetooth > keyboard. Android is a crippled Linux unfortunately... (in my opinion). > > In the end, I primarily use my nexus devices as phones (really?) and for > facebook (as one must). > > Case 2: this is my preferred mobile solution. I have an OpenPandora > palmtop computer [1] running the full Debian testing distribution with > Emacs and the org from git, not to mention gnus, LaTeX, Libreoffice, > Octave, ... The Pandora has WiFi and bluetooth but not 3/4G > connectivity. I use my phone to tether the Pandora to the 'net when I > need to connect outside a WiFi zone. In this case, the Pandora and my > other systems are fully synchronised using unison. Finally, the Pandora > has 2 full SD slots which allow me to walk around with 128 GB of disk > space. > > I bought my Pandora specifically because I wanted a full org mobile > experience! I am awaiting the release of the Pyra, the upgrade of the > Pandora, very eagerly indeed! > > Oh, and the Pandora has a fantastic audio system :-) > > Sorry if I have come across as an advert for the Pandora but I am > obviously a satisfied customer. > > HTH, > eric > > > Footnotes: > [1] https://boards.openpandora.org/pandora/pandoramain.html/ > > -- > : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.2-363-g5c13a6 >
