Note that Orgzly Revived and Orgro are both in the f-droid main repo.
You can get apps in a trustworthy free-software-compatible way.   While
these two apps on Google Play should be fine, in general the Play store
is full of malware (defined as any code that acts contrary to your
interests), and f-droid main is vastly better in that resepect.


jdashiel <[email protected]> writes:

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> Android not being a terminal interface sets up some learning curves
> for me to overcome.  I have termux from f-droid and may see if I can
> install emacs for the full function of orgmode and other items.

I have been using Orgzly and then Orgzly Revived for years and been
pretty happy.  My usage is disjoint from my normal org files.  I have a
few foo.org on my phone, edited mostly only there.  This is mostly note
taking, but also I will create a custom todo list for a project and
check things off, when there are so many little things that going back
to the computer is annoying.

As for emacs, I have run emacs in termux and it works just fine.  The
only problem is that you are typing in a terminal.  If you have a
bluetooth or other external keyboard, and a magnifying glass this can be
fine.

If you don't have a real keyboard, then I strongly recommend "Unexpected
Keyboard" which lets you type the full ASCII character set and many
beyond-ASCII characters (e.g. EUish latin-1 letters), control, meta.

However, even though I could run real org in emacs, I find that Orgzly's
UI is easier, with touch to fold/unfold, to locate, cut/paste nicely
integrated with Android.   Even with Orgzly, or anything else, I still
strongly prefer Unexpected Keyboard.

I haven't really tried Orgro and should.   Orgzly is meeting my needs to
keep notes (on a variety of subjects, hierarchical, normal org practice)
sufficiently well that I haven't been motivated.  This discussion is
making me want to try though.

Overall, I would say try Orgzly Revived and if you find limitations
frustrating try realorg-emacs-termux.  It really depends on what you're
doing and how you feel about adapting to tools vs forcing tools your
way, and the resulting total effort and comfort.

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