Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

This is so great, thank you Daniel. This changes everything.

Next up, org-web-agenda?

Edit: Already a feature. I love it.

Maybe syncing with documents hosted on private github/gitlab repositories?

I have been on the fence for using Redux in a large-scale project and I am still not convinced about its usefulness. I feel its too much code for too little gain. You have listed it as one of the tools you have used in org-web. Does it add value?

This is awesome!

FYI, it looks like the add/delete row/column buttons have their targets reversed? The button whose icon suggests "add row" adds a column, etc.

I'm unable to login through the Google Drive link on mobile, seems the image loads butbit doesn't click through (i.e. clicking on the image does nothing).

Tried this in Firefox (with and without uMatrix and/or UBO) and Firefox Klar and Google Chrome (with JavaScript enabled).

Thanks. I’ll be trying this real soon now.

In the meantime, does the agenda view include something like org-agenda-files or just the visited file?

What are org files?

You can use orgmode in other editors. I use vim, for instance. (Yes, the "official" module is only for emacs, but orgmode is a format and other editors have plugins for it as well.)

this is good info, because when I searched it was talking about Lotus so felt like I had to be in the wrong area.

I'd recommend the author use the OAuth 2.0 scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file ("View and manage Google Drive files and folders that you have opened or created with this app") instead of https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive ("See, edit, create, and delete all of your Google Drive files"), if/when they get a chance to work on this.

Anyway, this is really cool and totally fills a niche for me (90% of the time I want to edit org files in Emacs on my computer, but sometimes I need remote access). So I'm really happy to see this exists.

Yep, I should’ve done that in the first place, and it’s on my todo list, though I haven’t put many hours into org-web lately. In the meantime, you can always host the project yourself if that makes you feel a bit more comfortable about linking to GDrive (though this doesn’t solve every potential privacy issue, of course)

There is actually no OAuth 2 scope that allow only subdirectory access. App developers can either get full access, per-file access with a file picker or Application data folder access. Using Application data folder would seem to be the right choice but there is one problem: you cannot access Application data folder through Google Drive apps. Only the OAuth 2 application can access that folder. You can delete it in your Google Drive settings but you cannot see the actual files.

not the author, just a non-techy person who wants to try org mode without the complexity of emacs.

The Orgzly+Syncthing is an awesome combination. Also, as alternative it is worth mentioning the Standard Notes [0], which tends to be have-it-all-as-extension [1][2] note editor - however, it lacks the org-mode.

[0]: https://standardnotes.org/

[1]: https://standardnotes.org/extensions#editors

[2]: https://standardnotes.org/demo

You may want to try out smos. It's org mode but without the emacs around it: smos.cs-syd.eu

Beorg is awesome, I use it daily, but it's really "TODO" oriented, and not that great for editing documents.

I've often wished there was an iOS text editor that understood org format, even just basic markdown style formatting. I'm going to give org-web a go, I think it could be a good compliment to beorg.

I think beorg is fantastic and I poked around with it for a while before building org-web.

Ultimately I decided to build org-web anyway because I wanted something a bit closer to the metal, in a way. My impression of Beorg was that its bit higher level, whereas org-web provides some first class support for org features while still letting you edit the raw text if you'd like to.

To be clear, I think both styles have their advantages. org-web's style isn't better, its better for me.

I’m a big fan and current user, though I’d really like to use something FOSS. And, while iOS payments are a good prompt to support the author (I’m trying to get better at donating to Free Software developers), the in-app upsells for features are pretty annoying.

That said, it’s one of the most used apps on my phone.

If you have Reminders synced with Beorg, you can tell Siri to set a reminder and it should end up in the appropriate slot in Beorg.

It is extremely naive to leave private files on public servers where one does not even know a person face to face.

I think those are great ideas, I just haven’t gotten around to them yet. This was largely a scratch-your-own-itch kind of project for me, and I sync my org file with Dropbox, so that was my priority.

More backends have been considered: https://github.com/DanielDe/org-web/issues/5

Would be nice to see Syncthing support.

This is the problem I also have with this. Give it a git backend, and I might use it. Even an s3 backend would be ok.

Encrypt the file and throw on IPFS?

I’m planning to give this a try once notes aren’t stored on dynalist servers, or are at least end to end encrypted

There is no 'modern' note taking app remotely as capable as Org-Mode. That said, there's a tradeoff to be made as to use Org-Mode effectively is a project in itself (check out a couple of youtube videos on it). In my experience it's also hard to use it without being thoroughly infected by emacs/lisp envy. Whether this is a good or bad thing is a metaphysical question.

If you invest some time in it, it's way more awesome. Keep hardly scales for serious use. Handling of media files is probably editor specific.

If you use emacs, org mode is really turing complete as it basically is an extension of elisp. But if you use this post's web-based editor, it probably implements only a tiny subset of org-mode (haven't checked out in detail). Still great if you just want to jot down a notes in a file you normally edit in emacs but have just a web browser.

I would vastly prefer a way to use emacs on my computer but sync the file to google drive so I can share files between computers. That works well on the mac, but not at all on a chromebook. Maybe with Crostini it's getting better but I don't believe so. I really wish ChromeOS would allow syncing a local directory to Google drive.

Org-Mode blows away Keep, unless you are using Keep on a stylus device like a Galaxy Note and use the pen to take notes. Org mode is made to manage a large or small number of files... even source code with TODO comments can be marshaled into an agenda. I'll toss a .org file in the top level of project and commit it in git... now I have a nice file with todos, deadlines and reference material. Since it's just text, it prints nicely and is very easy to manage.

As for media files, it's hyperlinks to media files.

Org-mode mode is the best way to organize information that i’ve found that also allows me the freedom to chose where I store the information. It’s also, contrary to many services like Keep, quite future proof.

I'm pretty happy with Notion.

A note is composed of blocks, which can have child blocks and so on. This makes it much easier to organise things, compared to a typical "modern" free-form note editor.

Pros:

  - good UX
  - native synching
  - team collaboration

Cons:

  - proprietary
  - paid subscription required
  - no agenda feature

Edit: reformatting, rewording

Org mode files are just plain text, but it has syntax for linking to external files like images, and Emacs can display those images inline.

Have you tried orgzly?

Ah, no there is not. Haven't gotten around to that yet. My primary use case here was editing existing files.

When you’re ready to share, would you kindly ping me? As a power org user and Clojure programmer I am intrigued by your description^^

My mail is in my user description.

Its versatility, all within one file format.

e.g. for anyone who hasn't glanced at the Org-Mode table of contents: https://orgmode.org/manual/index.html#SEC_Contents

For managing tasks: org files can be richly structured. So you can organise a task in some nested hierarchy; or with a tag; or with some key-value property. You can also make use of the way you organise notes to quickly search for tasks. Org also provides some useful ways you can view your organised tasks.

Besides task management, it's kindof "2nd best at everything", but all within one file format.

For GTD: Org supports a workflow where you can quickly 'capture' some information; then later organise it.

Org Babel: supports running snippets of code in an org-file, outputting the results. It's more primitive than something like Jupyter, though. (But you can also re-arrange the code snippets into files, supporting a literate programming style). -- I've found this a useful tool for keeping code and notes together.

Org has some support for tables/spreadsheets. I don't use this very much. But, again, useful to be able to embed (and update) within notes.

You wouldn't start using org-mode to get all these benefits. You start using a small part of it. And then you notice some other feature of org you'd benefit from, and figure that part out.

It's just a really solid markup for large plaintext documents with automa(g/t)ic formatting and the ability to embed:

-Arbitrary code which can be executed and which can update/operate on the contents of the document

-calendars

-hyperlinks

-images and other media

-tables which can also act as spreadsheets a la Excel

It also lets you export to just about any format including HTML and pdf via TeX, and it has broad integration across emacs so you can easily invoke portions of org-mode from your other buffers/modes.

In other words it's a really flexible medium for representing and working just about anything in a plain text file. I use it as a bug tracker for personal projects, I use it for self-documenting code ("literate programming", as they say), and I use it for writing prose that I intend to export to PDF such as reports and other things because frankly org is a much saner way to write latex/xetex/whatever.

org-mode works well for me because I already use (and live in) Emacs. Since its just plain text, all the ways I'm used to manipulating text work great in org-mode too.

I also dabble with elisp a bit and that fits in nicely here too. For instance, I wrote a really simple command to "mark this todo as done and move it to the bottom of this list".

As long as you only sync org-mode text files, you could install synsthing-fork and enable custom rule to sync the orgzly directory even on mobile data.

In case this isn't a joke, what's keeping you from just using emacs or an org-mode plugin for your text editor?

>What do you think is the good features markdown lacks?

Orgmode adds things like todos, timestamped entries, outlining, cross-references, show/hide sections etc, which markdown editors typically lack.

Yeah, the keyboard shortcut system is a bit buggy. I haven't put much work into it since I figure when you're at a desktop you'll be using Emacs anyway. You can, however, change the keyboard shortcuts in settings. Maybe that'll help you here?

Author here - I’m not sure % wise, but quite a few features now have first-class support. Those that don’t simply fall back to plain text, which you can always resort to editing directly in org-web. You can see a list of the implemented features (and try them yourself) in the sample file here: https://org-web.org/