Re: [O] Update from exported agendas?

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Chris Poole <address@hidden> writes:

> The only way I can think of doing it is, for each completed task out
> of the exported file, pull up the agenda view (that corresponds to
> that file), find that item, and mark it as DONE.
>
> Perhaps have this action on the opening of any file in the
> org-agenda-files list.
>
> I was just hoping it might have already been done so I don't have to
> start from scratch, seems like a logical thing --- presumably people
> just manually open up the agenda view for what they've just done away
> from the laptop, and mark things done, again...

I think people use dropbox or some git based setting to locally modify
agenda entries while being offline and synchronize later on. But they
use Org-mode to make the local changes, they don't do them outside of
Org-mode (except where exporters/conversion-tools between Org and other
calendar/planning apps exist).

To achieve what you want you should probably use Org-mobile or install
Emacs/Org-mode on all your devices and then sync via dropbox or git or
so. 

> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Thorsten Jolitz <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>     
>     Chris Poole <address@hidden> writes:
>     
>     Hi,
>     
>     > I export my agenda custom views to plain text, so I can check
>     things
>     > off as I go (without access to Emacs).
>     >
>     > I use `(org-agenda-prefix-format " [ ] ")` so I can easily add
>     an "X"
>     > with my text editor on my phone.
>     >
>     > Is there any way to have this update the todo items that the
>     exported
>     > agenda file was created from? (Say, changing NEXT state to
>     DONE.)
>     
>     
>     I don't think this is possible. Without having looked at
>     org-agenda.el I
>     guess that the connection between agenda entries and items in .org
>     files
>     is realised with Emacs Lisp markers (enabling cmds like
>     `org-agenda-show' in agenda mode). These markers are lost when you
>     simply
>     copy the agenda contents to a plain text file, so there is no
>     connection
>     anymore with the Org files.
>     
>     Maybe the elisp markers could be replaced by unique IDs for each
>     entry
>     or links that allow the look-up of the associated entries, and you
>     are
>     lucky and somebody aready figured out how to do this?
>     
>     --
>     cheers,
>     Thorsten
>     
>     
>
>

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten