Am Sat, 5 Dec 2015 14:08:19 +0000 schrieb Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk>:
> 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. Well, there is hope for Android users, too: I bought an used ASUS TF 101 (but any such android tablet should do) especially to try out various ways to install a real Linux on this class of machines. With linuxdeploy I was able to install a complete Linux (TeX, R, emacs, git, rsync ...) on a *rooted* machine. Using a VNC viewer (bvnc in my case) I get a complete graphical environment. emacs works nicely in the terminal emulater session, too. Linux runs besides Android in a chroot and I`m quite happy with this setup. On another *unrooted* machine (Galaxy Note something) I use gnuroot. Only got it working without X11, but did not try too hard, because solution 1 was working fine. According to the docs I´m just too stupid to get a local X11-server working. Both machines have physical keyboards attached, but in tablet mode using HackersKeyboard emacs is usable, but obviously a keyboard is a Good Thing(tm) for emacs users. May be that helps someone Detlef > > 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/ >
