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I really really need a mobile app for org-mode that syncs without pain (yes, I am aware of Orgzly + Syncthing, I am using it, but it still is not as smooth as I want it to be, and has too many annoyances).

I simply cannot imagine leaving the comfort of org-mode for something inferior like markdown, even though there are cool plugins in the Obsidian ecosystem.

Question if you are an Obsidian user - what are your most important plugins?

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Orgro [0] is very nice but currently mostly read only [1]

[0] https://github.com/amake/orgro/

[1] https://orgro.org/faq/

What issues are you having with syncthing?

I use it for obsidian and I had quite a bit of annoyances with it until I started having a node running on a VPS that was always on and set the IP address /domain in the mobile application so that it connects almost instantly. Then it didn't matter what my phone and laptop were doing because they could both always connect to the VPS and syncing happened within a second or so.

What do you need syncing for? In my case I sync over WebDAV and the remote is backed by a git client. This lets me sync with emacs

You need to:

- enable save/sync on resume orgzly

- ensure inotify based sync enabled on orgzly folder

- enable polling every minute on syncthing folder

- sync files by most recently modified

Logseq supports org files. Though it does have a pretty different default workflow, which is heavy on backlinks and tags.

is the performance still abysmal? The last time I tried it, a few months ago, you couldn't edit a full page of text without logseq telling you that editing and indexing was disabled for performance reasons. Which is truly bizarre. Sadly didn't work as a replacement for me for that reason.

workflowy is the best thing I've used to replace org-mode on my phone.

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