Re: [O] What is the most practical workflow for capturing things in Mobileorg and later integrating them into the main files?

[Ken Mankoff]

Hi Jorge,

My mobile capture work flow is:

1) Automatically pull whenever changes are made

2) Pulled items go into "refile.org"

3) refile.org tags all items as REFILE with:
   #+FILETAGS: REFILE
   as the top line
   
4) My default (custom) agenda shows a REFILE section if and only if it exists.

In more detail,

1)

;; Pull whenever mobileorg.org changes 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3456782/emacs-lisp-how-to-monitor-changes-of-a-file-directory
(defvar monitor-attributes nil "Cached file attributes to be monitored.")
(defun install-monitor (file secs)
  (run-with-timer
   0 secs
   (lambda (f p)
     (let ((att (elt (file-attributes f) 5)))
       (unless (or (null monitor-attributes) (equalp monitor-attributes att))
         (org-mobile-pull)
                 (org-mobile-push)
                 )
       (setq monitor-attributes att)))
   file secs))
(defvar monitor-timer (install-monitor (concat org-mobile-directory 
"/mobileorg.org") 5)   "Check if MobileOrg/mobileorg.org is changed every 5s.")


And 4)

  (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
        '(
          ("c" "My Custom Agenda"
           (
            (tags "REFILE" ((org-agenda-overriding-header "REFILE")))
            ...etc...

AND

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2015-06/msg00266.html

to only show the REFILE section if items are there.

Hope this helps,

  -k.


On 2015-09-11 at 10:00, Jorge <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi.  When I capture something in MobileOrg, it by default is classified as
> "Captures" and, when I do org-mobile-pull, those captures /silently/ go into
> ~/org/from-mobile.org.  This is bad.
>
> So one workflow would be to write some code that warns me if
> ~/org/from-mobile.org is non-empty, and find a way of hooking it into
> org-mobile-pull.  Then:
> 1) Capture something in MobileOrg
> 2) Do org-mobile-pull
> 3) If the code I wrote as above warns me that ~/org/from-mobile.org is
>    non-empty, then visit it, go through the entries, fix them (adding more
>    information now that I have a real keyboard) and use org-refile.
>
> Is there a more practical and easier option?
>
> Regards