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How do you handle a file like that on mobile?

I separate my job journal from my personal journal. Job journal starts on a backed up work drive and I don't care to have mobile access to it. I must have access to my personal journal at work, or while I'm out and about and mobile is the only way.

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not OP but I put this file on Dropbox, their mobile app has an editor that works for markdown or plain text.

I've also had success using syncthing for this if you want something self hosted.

What do you use for editing on mobile, for files synced by syncthing?

I use orgzly [1] and configure it to "sync" to Syncthing's local folder [2] (which Syncthing then syncs). This requires write access to Syncthing's data directory though, so I'm not sure it works on stock Android.

[1] http://www.orgzly.com/

[2] e.g. configure a "directory repository" with content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/tree/<device id>%3AAndroid%2Fdata%2Fcom.nutomic.syncthingandroid%2Ffiles%2FSync%2Forg

> I'm not sure it works on stock Android.

I'm running a stock Pixel 2 and I've been using syncthing to sync pictures and videos to my desktop automatically, but didn't know about Orgzly. I just hooked up Orgzly and syncthing and it worked without any issues. Thanks for commenting about orgzly!

I believe I used an app from fdroid called Markor. Mainly because it had a nice widget, so I could keep a to do list on my home screen.

Edit: Fixed a spelling error. Also, here's a link to the app:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.gsantner.markor/

I open drafts in Gmail with no recipient and keep notes there. Super convenient since I usually have it open anyway on the desktop, it works great on mobile too, and gmail search makes it easy to find stuff.

I've been doing the same for about 15 years, except I actually send the emails to myself and have a special tag for them. Unfortunately, Gmail search has failed to find things for me in recent years that I know are there and know are tagged with a particular key phrase, usually for things that are from the 2009-2013 time period. I've lost faith that they are actually keeping everything, or perhaps that they are keeping everything but their search algorithm may sometimes return "no results" in order to be fast instead of actually falling back to some kind of deep search.

The one downside to this is that if you accidentally delete a draft (with a mistaken mouse click on the trash icon), it is impossible to ever recover the draft.

The Dropbox web app not having that same functionality is my biggest pet peeve with the product.

this might be archaic but… i use draft mails for that. for years and all my todo lists (about six), works really well for me.

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