Beorg – an Emacs org-mode companion for iOS

Last time I'd looked, I was unable to find such an app. This is what I've been looking for! Thanks!

Can you tell me why you'd recommend it? Like MobileOrg I've never been able to get into it and keep going back to Google Keep (no pun intended).

Do any of the android apps support sycning over git yet?

I would just straight up ask for money if I were the developer.

Org mode is very powerful for notes, outlines, and much much more.

Org files are also very easily compiled to many different formats, including Tex, txt, html, etc.

It's convenient, but not life changing as some people think. It's worth using if you already use emacs, but it's not worth switching over.

(I use emacs and org-mode extensively. Before that I used vi)

I started with making todo lists. It was easy to mark each row as TODO or DONE. I was able to indent underneath each todo to make sub tasks, and fold each section up and move it around easily. Then I found a way to add due dates to each item, and then view them all in a calendar view. I also found that I could add tags to each item, and then filter by tags. So if I had a question for my coworker I would tag that todo under his name and I could retrieve that later.

Between tags and dates, you can stop worrying about the order of your todo list items and just throw new ones in there, and still easily find them because they're now structured by date and tag. You can also export your calendar and do other exports as well.

I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of what org mode is capable of, but that's how I was able to dip my toe into it and pick up new functionality over time.

If any org-mode wizards want to point out some other big use-cases that I've missed then I'd love to hear about that. I think some people even outline and publish books using org-mode so it's quite a deep system!

Edit: I should also add that I came over from tmux+vim by using spacemacs, which is a vim-mode oriented distribution of emacs which comes with its own opinionated set of plugins and "layers" that you can easily add. It's worth a look if you're emacs-curious

I use org-mode to track my todos, track my time, and to take notes.

The big benefit for me is that it can link to lots of different types of things within my emacs environment. For instance, I manage my email from within emacs (using mu4e), and I can set up org-mode to quickly make TODOs that link back to whatever email I have open. I can also link to files (local and remote), web URLs (of course), and to git commits which will open in Magit (an excellent git interface). So using it as my todo tracking is really quite handy. It would be less so if I weren't mostly living in emacs already.

There are at least two orgmode plugins for vim. I don't know how complete they are, though.

Orgmode is plain-text formatted, so you don't need a plugin to read it. However, the plugin gives you the ability to fold headings automatically, format tables automatically, and handle indenting and insertion of headings more easily.

I use org-mode heavily. I write specifications in it with ascii diagrams, code samples, figure captions, footnotes, etc... and export it all to a nicely fomatted PDF with rendered diagrams (thanks to the bundled ditaa).

I use it for organizing todo lists, time tracking, and generating time sheets.

I've used it to publish a book.

I use it as a super-powered Jupyter-style notebook for data analysis. It as a sub-package called org-babel that lets me interact with any language using the normal Emacs modes and tooling. This lets me query results from a database, send it to a code-block in my org file which executes on my machine and spits the results back into my org-file as a nicely formatted table. org-mode also has fully fleshed out spreadsheet system. For hacky analysis projects I can't think of anything better.

I use it as a light-weight Kanban board/issue manager for personal projects as well.

Org mode is outliner with some advanced features. Those features depend on what you want to use and they range from time tracking, through cross-linking and reference tracking, inline code execution up to spreadsheet (and it's nice Excel-for-programmers kind of spreadsheet, not a stub). Browsing headlines should give you idea what features are there:

http://orgmode.org/manual/index.html#toc_Tables

Org-mode was the thing that really got me into emacs. Nowadays I don't even use org-mode as much, but I couldn't imagine a life without emacs.

I'm still a heavy vi user and I still continue to use vi for everything else, well except org-mode. 2 years ago, I did the jump and installed Emacs with Evil + Org-mode, i.e. I can use Emacs with vi commands. I use now org-mode daily - taking notes for my work, clocking in times, making at the end reports per project in order to make bills for my clients. I am far from using all org-mode functionalities, but already this improved the life for me sooo much - and I have all my vi keybindings.

It goes so far, that make my programs to write reports in org-mode, so that I can read display, browse, search and drill down in them with org-mode - for big program generated reports it's a great advantage - they are nicely displayed, but at the same time you can use them with diffs (regression test reports), grep, etc.

Additionally I use org-mode for project planning to generate gantt charts and as well for my private know-how database about IT matters - commands that I use, tricks, code snippets.

This year I installed spacemacs, wich is an emacs with a special configuration, looks nicer and has the vi functionality built-in.

That said, when I code, I use the terminal and vi.

Editing of outlines is in the works. Whilst checkbox support won't be in the first release it is in the roadmap.

I just quit learning emacs, I was learning e-lisp and spacemacs and trying to customize the IDE to be close to a pycharm experience.

It just didn't seem to be possible, I could get a graphical debugger for a while until I found realgud and even then there's no support for a locals window or doing console input

Find symbols, the anaconda implementation by default just gave me a list of matches without context or file/line number etc which isn't very useful.

It just felt like there can't be enough users with enough demand for things you get in an IDE for it to be worth getting into Emacs for programming.

I'd love to get all comfy with a very customizable text editor but none seem there: Emacs => above Atom => similarly missing some basic python debugging features VSCode => Evil microsoft and I think had limited support for customizing windows (If I wanted to use a customizable text editor and not an IDE the first thing I'd need/want to implement would be embedding Jupyter cells.

An Orgzly comparison would be more interesting. It's the better MobileOrg

http://www.orgzly.com/

Syncthing, using it for the exact same reason

https://syncthing.net/

It doesn't look like it supports clocking in or out.

It says it supports WebDAV-based cloud storage. It would be really nice, given its on iOS, if it supported iCloud.

iCloud and rsync would be nice options to have.

Maybe Git even? Would love to keep my org files in a repo without having another special sync step.

As another commenter has put WebDAV support is in place. This is supported by many services such as OwnCloud, etc as well as your own server. git would be great as it would support better merging - however a little way off getting round to that yet.