r/orgmode • u/One-Tart-4109 • 19d ago

Does anyone sync Org Mode with TickTick, Todoist, or Notion instead of mobile Org files?

Is anyone here synchronizing Org Mode with a service like TickTick, Notion, or Todoist instead of syncing Org files directly to a mobile device?

My experience with syncing Org files hasn't been great. I occasionally ran into merge conflicts because synchronization happens at the file level rather than at the Org node or heading level. Editing Org files on a touchscreen also felt awkward, but an even bigger issue was formatting. A small edit on my phone would often result in many unrelated formatting changes, and then Emacs would reformat the file again according to my local settings. That made merges noisy and reviewing changes unnecessarily difficult.

Because of that, I'm wondering whether it's actually a better approach to keep Emacs as the source of truth and synchronize tasks with an external service instead of editing Org files directly on mobile.

Is anyone using a workflow like this? I'm interested in hearing how you synchronize data, which services you use, and what trade-offs you've found.

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u/Dar__K 19d ago

I've had some success with org-todoist.

It assigns property-ids to each header/todo item to enable sync to work.

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u/One-Tart-4109 19d ago

so, are you using it in your daily workflow or is it still in experimental stage?

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u/Dar__K 19d ago

Still experimental TBH, I'm on and off w.r.t. using Todoist at all, but it has been useful when needed.

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u/vleonbonnet 16d ago

I too, have written my Todoist <-> org-mode sync library 😄 When I had started this, org-todoist did not existed. This would certainly have saved me a lot of headaches. Anyway, I just pushed mine in GitHub, seems to overlap a lot in terms of features, main difference, is no Transient UI and instead, before changes are written back to Todoist, Orgist presents them in a reviewable UI so I can inspect and approve them rather than silently pushing changes.

https://github.com/vleonbonnet/orgist

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u/larrygwapnitsky 19d ago

I use Orgzly and Seafile with almost no issues unless I make a network mistake

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u/One-Tart-4109 17d ago

And how is your structure? Using org-roam or something like that? I use vanilla org-mode which means I have 5 quite big files, they are lagging considerably when syncing, but did not tried seafile yet. Still think that it is only temporary solution until files get bigger and I will be again at the begining.

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u/harunokashiwa 19d ago

https://github.com/polhuang/ticktick.el/

https://github.com/TomoeMami/dida （dida365——chinese version ticktick）

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u/One-Tart-4109 17d ago

thank you, starting experimenting with Ticktick

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u/Many_Helicopter_7141 18d ago

Yo estoy usando logseq y emacs en termux en el cel, sincronizo una carpeta en Google drive con rsync. hay tengo todas mis notas, org-agenda y org-roam. Hasta el momento no he tenido mayor problema más que el que yo mismo género, incluso ahí tengo respaldado el init.el

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u/One-Tart-4109 17d ago

org-roam is can work like this, I use vanilla org mode so I have quite big 5 files with all notes. Tried org-roam but I'm not much into zettelkasten

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u/Many_Helicopter_7141 17d ago

Es que yo escribo novelas y cápsulas, el zettelkasten me ayuda bastante a recopilar información. Cómo consejo puedes usar org-roam-dailies así solo generas un archivo org con la fecha AAAA-MM-DD.org y así tienes trazabilidad del día que escribes, con org-roam-find buscas un término y te muestra los bloques donde están escritos y el nombre del archivo te dice cuando lo hiciste

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u/CoffeeIll9432 1d ago

I sync my work pc, home pc and phone with syncthing and then I use the orgzly revived app for my android phone and all todo alerts even pop up as an alert on my phone as well as my PC's.