What is the most practical workflow for capturing things in Mobileorg and later integrating them into the main files?

What is the most practical workflow for capturing things in Mobileorg and later integrating them into the main files?

[Jorge]

Hi.  When I capture something in MobileOrg, it by default is classified as
"Captures" and, when I do org-mobile-pull, those captures /silently/ go into
~/org/from-mobile.org.  This is bad.

So one workflow would be to write some code that warns me if
~/org/from-mobile.org is non-empty, and find a way of hooking it into
org-mobile-pull.  Then:
1) Capture something in MobileOrg
2) Do org-mobile-pull
3) If the code I wrote as above warns me that ~/org/from-mobile.org is
   non-empty, then visit it, go through the entries, fix them (adding more
   information now that I have a real keyboard) and use org-refile.

Is there a more practical and easier option?

Regards

Re: What is the most practical workflow for capturing things in Mobileorg and later integrating them into the main files?

[Ken Mankoff]

Hi Jorge,

My mobile capture work flow is:

1) Automatically pull whenever changes are made

2) Pulled items go into "refile.org"

3) refile.org tags all items as REFILE with:
   #+FILETAGS: REFILE
   as the top line
   
4) My default (custom) agenda shows a REFILE section if and only if it exists.

In more detail,

1)

;; Pull whenever mobileorg.org changes http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3456782/emacs-lisp-how-to-monitor-changes-of-a-file-directory
(defvar monitor-attributes nil "Cached file attributes to be monitored.")
(defun install-monitor (file secs)
  (run-with-timer
   0 secs
   (lambda (f p)
     (let ((att (elt (file-attributes f) 5)))
       (unless (or (null monitor-attributes) (equalp monitor-attributes att))
         (org-mobile-pull)
		 (org-mobile-push)
		 )
       (setq monitor-attributes att)))
   file secs))
(defvar monitor-timer (install-monitor (concat org-mobile-directory "/mobileorg.org") 5)   "Check if MobileOrg/mobileorg.org is changed every 5s.")


And 4)

  (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
        '(
          ("c" "My Custom Agenda"
           (
            (tags "REFILE" ((org-agenda-overriding-header "REFILE")))
            ...etc...

AND

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2015-06/msg00266.html

to only show the REFILE section if items are there.

Hope this helps,

  -k.


On 2015-09-11 at 10:00, Jorge <jorge13515@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.  When I capture something in MobileOrg, it by default is classified as
> "Captures" and, when I do org-mobile-pull, those captures /silently/ go into
> ~/org/from-mobile.org.  This is bad.
>
> So one workflow would be to write some code that warns me if
> ~/org/from-mobile.org is non-empty, and find a way of hooking it into
> org-mobile-pull.  Then:
> 1) Capture something in MobileOrg
> 2) Do org-mobile-pull
> 3) If the code I wrote as above warns me that ~/org/from-mobile.org is
>    non-empty, then visit it, go through the entries, fix them (adding more
>    information now that I have a real keyboard) and use org-refile.
>
> Is there a more practical and easier option?
>
> Regards

Re: What is the most practical workflow for capturing things in Mobileorg and later integrating them into the main files?

[Jorge]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jorge,
>
> My mobile capture work flow is:
> [...]

Thank you, this is quite better than what I had.

Re: What is the most practical workflow for capturing things in Mobileorg and later integrating them into the main files?

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

On Fri, 11-09-2015, at 16:00, Jorge <jorge13515@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.  When I capture something in MobileOrg, it by default is classified as
> "Captures" and, when I do org-mobile-pull, those captures /silently/ go into
> ~/org/from-mobile.org.  This is bad.
>
> So one workflow would be to write some code that warns me if
> ~/org/from-mobile.org is non-empty, and find a way of hooking it into
> org-mobile-pull.  Then:
> 1) Capture something in MobileOrg
> 2) Do org-mobile-pull
> 3) If the code I wrote as above warns me that ~/org/from-mobile.org is
>    non-empty, then visit it, go through the entries, fix them (adding more
>    information now that I have a real keyboard) and use org-refile.
>
> Is there a more practical and easier option?
>

That is more or less what I do/what happens in my case:

I get a notification that flagged.org has changed (though I don't recall
ever having configured myself anything explicitly; I guess it is just that
the buffer is open). And when I feel like it, I visit it, add the info
wherever I need to, delete everything from it, and save flagged.org empty.



Best,

R.


> Regards

-- 
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
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