Hi Peter, Jeff,
thanks for your reactions.
The idea I am having in mind actually goes back to an old idea by Tim
O'Callaghan which he sent to emacs-orgmode on April 25, 2006 - oh my,
is this really more than 2 year ago????
Here is the link to Tims message:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/139/focus=165
The basic idea is to *give up* on the idea of a mobile version
of Org and to do something different:
1. Get entire Org-files or sections of it onto a mobile device.
This could be an Org file, or simply an exported agenda list.
For example, you could automate creation of a number of useful
on-the-road agenda views, and make sure that these are automatically
updated on your phone.
2. On the mobile device, use whatever means available to mark entries
that you have acted upon in some way. Tim actually had involved
involved plans to prepend certain letters to headlines, to trigger
specific actions like switching to a specific TODO state etc.
3. Once synched back to your desktop computer, Emacs would read these
files and do the required changes in the original Org files.
Tim and I had a few iterations about this, I even wrote
a prototype. But in the end the project died, I believe mainly because
there was no good way to make sure that Emacs would be able to identify
and find the correct entries.
Tim's proposal has recently crept back into my mind, with two
modifications:
1. We do now have a system to assign unique IDs to entries, so the
cross-identification could be made to work.
2. I believe that Tim's idea to actually assign actions is too complex
and will be hard to implement in a closed way that would not
constantly
beg for extension. Anyway, what if all we do it to record the IDs
of
entries that we want to have affected. To on the device you would
only
click/tab an entry and in this way mark it for further attention.
And then later back at our
Desktop/Laptop computer, Org will use the list of collected IDs to
create an agenda view will all entries which were marked while on
the go. Then you could go through this list, remember and record
the actions and enter corresponding notes with the better input
devices you have available in that environment.
I am not sure if this is a good idea, maybe I am just rambling, or
maybe I should get myself and N810, bite the bullet and cough
up the 300 Eros or so.
But as a poor-men's solution tha could be made to work on
a large number of devices, maybe something like the setup
described above would do the trick?
As said, I am not sure if this is going anywhere, but comments
are, as always, welcome.
- Carsten
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