org: Pulling from MobileOrg
B.3 Pulling from MobileOrg
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When MobileOrg synchronizes with the server, it not only pulls the Org
files for viewing. It also appends captured entries and pointers to
flagged and changed entries to the file ‘mobileorg.org’ on the server.
Org has a _pull_ operation that integrates this information into an
inbox file and operates on the pointers to flagged entries. Here is how
it works:
1. Org moves all entries found in ‘mobileorg.org’(1) and appends them
to the file pointed to by the variable ‘org-mobile-inbox-for-pull’.
Each captured entry and each editing event will be a top-level
entry in the inbox file.
2. After moving the entries, Org will attempt to implement the changes
made in MobileOrg. Some changes are applied directly and without
user interaction. Examples are all changes to tags, TODO state,
headline and body text that can be cleanly applied. Entries that
have been flagged for further action will receive a tag
‘:FLAGGED:’, so that they can be easily found again. When there is
a problem finding an entry or applying the change, the pointer
entry will remain in the inbox and will be marked with an error
message. You need to later resolve these issues by hand.
3. Org will then generate an agenda view with all flagged entries.
The user should then go through these entries and do whatever
actions are necessary. If a note has been stored while flagging an
entry in MobileOrg, that note will be displayed in the echo area
when the cursor is on the corresponding agenda line.
‘?’
Pressing ‘?’ in that special agenda will display the full
flagging note in another window and also push it onto the kill
ring. So you could use ‘? z C-y C-c C-c’ to store that
flagging note as a normal note in the entry. Pressing ‘?’
twice in succession will offer to remove the ‘:FLAGGED:’ tag
along with the recorded flagging note (which is stored in a
property). In this way you indicate that the intended
processing for this flagged entry is finished.
If you are not able to process all flagged entries directly, you can
always return to this agenda view(2) using ‘C-c a ?’.
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) ‘mobileorg.org’ will be empty after this operation.
(2) Note, however, that there is a subtle difference. The view
created automatically by ‘M-x org-mobile-pull RET’ is guaranteed to
search all files that have been addressed by the last pull. This might
include a file that is not currently in your list of agenda files. If
you later use ‘C-c a ?’ to regenerate the view, only the current agenda
files will be searched.
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