org: Setting up the staging area
B.1 Setting up the staging area
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MobileOrg needs to interact with Emacs through a directory on a server.
If you are using a public server, you should consider to encrypt the
files that are uploaded to the server. This can be done with Org mode
7.02 and with MobileOrg 1.5 (iPhone version), and you need an ‘openssl’
installation on your system. To turn on encryption, set a password in
MobileOrg and, on the Emacs side, configure the variable
‘org-mobile-use-encryption’(1).
The easiest way to create that directory is to use a free Dropbox.com
(http://dropbox.com) account(2). When MobileOrg first connects to your
Dropbox, it will create a directory MobileOrg inside the Dropbox. After
the directory has been created, tell Emacs about it:
(setq org-mobile-directory "~/Dropbox/MobileOrg")
Org mode has commands to put files for MobileOrg into that directory,
and to read captured notes from there.
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(1) If you can safely store the password in your Emacs setup, you
might also want to configure ‘org-mobile-encryption-password’. Please
read the docstring of that variable. Note that encryption will apply
only to the contents of the ‘.org’ files. The file names themselves
will remain visible.
(2) If you cannot use Dropbox, or if your version of MobileOrg does
not support it, you can use a webdav server. For more information,
check out the documentation of MobileOrg and also this FAQ entry
(http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#mobileorg_webdav).
Info Catalog
org: MobileOrg
org: MobileOrg
org: Pushing to MobileOrg