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amake / orgro

An Org Mode app for iOS and Android

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Editing files #88

Closed jdwoolc closed 2 weeks ago

jdwoolc commented 8 months ago

Is there a way to edit files? I know some changes can be saved, but I don't see a clear way to edit and add content to a file.

Edit: I want to add that if editing isn't a feature, it's not entirely clear that's the case. I would absolutely use this for so many tasks if I could edit documents, though -- todos, recipes, grocery lists...

amake commented 8 months ago

"Editing" is a large topic; previous discussion is here: #6. The kind of editing currently available is described here: https://orgro.org/faq/#can-i-edit-my-files-with-orgro

What you seem to want is freeform, full-text editing. The foundational (non-UI) work to allow that is complete, but it's not clear what kind of UI would make that sort of editing ergonomic on mobile.

dougalcorn commented 1 month ago

I'm not sure I understand the difficulty. What I'd like to see is a bi-modal edit action. Orgo has read and is displaying the file parsed and presented. Toggle to edit mode that puts the raw file in an edit buffer. Almost no-ui is needed or special rendering while typing. Edit in raw mode. Save and then orgo reloads the file and re-renders.

I'm sure I'm oversimplifying here. By far, Orgo's rendering and navigation of files is the best tool out there. I can use my iPad to read org files beautifully. I'd like to be able to fix typos, add sections, etc. I don't really want a full org-mode editor. I'm also not using this much for todos. It's mainly for note taking, journaling, studying.

amake commented 1 month ago

I'm not sure I understand the difficulty. What I'd like to see is a bi-modal edit action

I guess the difficulty is that I've never considered that to be an acceptable editing experience. Ideally we would have one of:

Fully "structured" GUI editing, like tapping a checkbox to toggle it, dragging list items to rearrange them, etc. This is not only difficult to program, but it's difficult to design appropriate controls and behaviors that expose all the things you might want to do.
Rich text editing, like with Notion. The entire display is also an editable text field. If this is doable in Flutter, it would probably mean rebuilding the guts of Orgro from scratch.

Unfortunately I think I've let perfect be the enemy of good, so I will admit defeat for the time being on the above ideas, and just do the bi-modal editing thing.

v1.39.0 will be available for testing with bi-modal editing shortly:

iOS
Android

amake commented 2 weeks ago

This is now released on all platforms.