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Obligatory: Does it work with org-mode?

Kind of.

There is basic support because of another open source org mode app - Orgro (https://orgro.org), - the author was even gracious enough to relicense his code away from GPL, so that I could use it. since GitJournal is shipped on the iOS store and GPL would not be compatible.

However, GitJournal internally expects everything to be markdown + yaml. So anything else are hacks I've done on top. At some point, I want to refactor and remove this hard dependency on Markdown.

Edit: I mistakenly thought the app was Orgzy. I've updated the comment. Sorry.

Hi. That author was me, but my app is Orgro (https://orgro.org), not Orgzly.

The relevant libraries are https://github.com/amake/org_flutter and https://github.com/amake/org_parser.

I am curious: why shipping on iOS store makes it incompatible with GPL ?

I mean I respect your decision to make it open-source or not, but why does the store matter ?

GPL seems to be incompatible with the iOS store as that places some extra restrictions on it. [0] [1]. Some GPL apps such as KDE Connect have a special exception in their license for the ios App Store. [2]

[0] https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/9500/is-apple...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12827624

[2] https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-ios/blob/master/License.md

Interesting, thanks for sharing.

I also want a similar app for org-mode. Presently, I'm using a cron (every 2 mins) that sync my org folder with github. But it's not for the mobile.

https://plainorg.com + https://workingcopyapp.com for git syncing.

disclosure: I’m the author of Plain Org.

Awsome - I must testdrive it, thanx for sharing!

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