[O] Valid use cases for lists?

2015-08-20 Thread Chris Patti
Can anyone give me an example of when it's a good idea to use lists rather than headlines? They feel rather like a violation of the principle of least surprise to me, because when you use them, and then try to use pretty much any other Org feature on them (marking them as a TODO item, tagging,

[O] Best way to edit org files via Dropbox on an IOS device?

2015-11-05 Thread Chris Patti
I've tried MobileOrg and the strange (to me :) push/pull workflow doesn't fit my needs very well. Dropbox has an excellent IOS client, I'd love to just be able to load and edit my .org files from that with some app or other. Does such exist? Thanks! -Chris -- Christopher Patti - Geek At Large

Re: [O] org-mobile-push and MobileOrg compatibility issue

2015-10-13 Thread Chris Patti
I must confess I am not wild about the whole way MobileOrg purports to function. I don't really want to have to push or pull my OrgFiles to/from mobile. With mechanisms like Dropbox what I *really* want is to be able to access and manipulate Org content on my device directly. -Chris On Mon,

[O] Which app was John Wegley referring to when he talked about opening Org-mode on IOS?

2015-12-14 Thread Chris Patti
In his "emacs Chat" with Sacha Chau, Mr. Wegley mentions being able to open Org-mode files on IOS. This would be awesome for me and I'm wondering if anyone knows what he was referring to. (I'm guessing it's not MobileOrg because that program on IOS seems to want a rather odd method involving

[O] The power of '-'

2016-06-24 Thread Chris Patti
So, this is one of those weird moments where I feel really stupid saying this, but I can imagine others have dealt with this as well. When I first started using org-mode, I thought you prefixed every line with some number of *. Then, I discovered that the *** were headings, and actual items

Re: [O] The power of '-'

2016-06-24 Thread Chris Patti
g files so I don't know how it would look. > I just use the files as a todo/done list/database/thing. > > bjb > > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Chris Patti <cpa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> So, this is one of those weird moments where I feel really stupid >&g