Org, Mobile Org, & DropBox

Org, Mobile Org, & DropBox

[Ken Mankoff]

Hi,

I'm interested in using Mobile Org (on 2 devices) & DropBox. 
However, the mobile devices are read-only.

Do I need to do the org-mobile-push and have the files move from 
~/org to ~/Dropbox/MobileOrg, or can I just store all my org files 
in ~/Dropbox/MobileOrg and not worry about syncing, since the mobile 
apps are read-only?

Thanks,

   -k.

Re: Org, Mobile Org, & DropBox

[William Gardella]

Hi Ken,

Ken Mankoff <mankoff-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in using Mobile Org (on 2 devices) & DropBox. However,
> the mobile devices are read-only.
>
> Do I need to do the org-mobile-push and have the files move from ~/org
> to ~/Dropbox/MobileOrg, or can I just store all my org files in
> ~/Dropbox/MobileOrg and not worry about syncing, since the mobile apps
> are read-only?
>
> Thanks,
>
>   -k.
>
>

For your use case, I think you would still probably want to run
`org-mobile-push' and set up the `org-mobile-directory' variable to
something inside your dropbox shared directory, because org-mobile-push
is responsible for generating the agenda views (agendas.org) and index
(index.org) upon which MobileOrg depends.  Even in a read-only mode,
MobileOrg will complain and not display your entries correctly if it
can't find these.

-- 
-WGG
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