beorg - an iOS plain text task manager

Installation and onboarding

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You can install beorg from the App Store to your iPhone or iPad.

When you run beorg for the first time you need to:

Provide permission for beorg to access your calendar. This will allow beorg to display calendar entries alongside dated items from your files.
Provide permission for beorg to access your reminders. This will then appear on the Agenda and Tasks tabs.
Choose how to synchronize your org files. iCloud, Dropbox, Box, a folder from another app or WebDAV can be used. If you are starting from scratch, and use macOS on the desktop, then iCloud is recommended. For other sync methods you’ll need to configure those later on the Settings tab. By using folder from another app you could keep your files completely locally on your device.

With iCloud no further setup is required. If you want to use another sync method you’ll need to make sure you’ve got a folder ready in which to store your files.

The tabs

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beorg uses a tab bar to provide access to the main sections of the app. You can quickly switch between the tabs Agenda, Tasks, Files and Settings.

You can enable a Notes tab if you have “Sync subfolders” enabled.

The Agenda

The agenda is the screen shown when beorg starts. It shows the tasks for each day in the current week.

Agenda tasks

The agenda shows tasks from your .org files, calendar and Reminders.

Sync

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beorg can sync files with iCloud, Dropbox, Box, a folder from another app and WebDAV (this includes services such as NextCloud).

Sync settings

General

There are some settings which apply to all sync methods:

Folder: this is the name of the folder containing the files to sync with beorg.
File extension: by default this is .org, but you can change this to something else (such as_.txt_) if required.
Auto sync on modify: if this is turned on then any changes you make in beorg will automatically trigger a full sync. If you have lots of files then this can slow beorg down.

iCloud

There is no additional setup needed for iCloud. beorg will watch for changes to your iCloud files and automatically sync any changes.

The item editor

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Item details

The item editor allows you to modify most details of a headline.

Top section:

The headline text itself.
The file the headline is saved to. Tap to move to a different file. If you change this, then the headline will be appended to the end of the selected file.

Key details:

The todo keyword - for example TODO or DONE. Long-press or tap to select a different keyword. This can be empty if the headline isn’t a task.
A priority. This is a single letter, by default from A to F. A represents the highest priority, and F the lowest. For the purposes of sorting no priority is treated as a B.
Tags - for example Shopping or Project. Tap to select or create a tag to assign to this headline.

Dates:

Viewing and editing outlines

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You can view and edit files as outlines in beorg. Long-press an item on the Agenda or Tasks tab and select Open With Outliner…. You can also select the file itself from the files tab.

What is an outline?

A file is shown as an outline. An outline is an organised hierarchy of text. You may sometimes see items in an outline referred to as nodes. An item can contain other items, known as its children. A headline can also contain text. Here is an example of what beorg writes when you save a file you’ve been working on:

Dates

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An item can be assigned zero or more dates. A date can be:

A scheduled date - the item will be shown on that date in the agenda, and should be started.
A deadline date - similar to scheduled but indicates a hard deadline for completion.
A show on/active date - that is the item will show in the agenda on that date, but won’t be shown as overdue if that date passes and it is still marked as TODO.

It is often useful to set both a scheduled and deadline date for an item which is a multi-day project.

The beorg share extension

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You can share links and text to beorg from other apps using the share extension.

The share extension allows you to select:

The keyword (e.g. TODO).
A priority (e.g. A).
Add a scheduled, deadline or show on/active date.
A file to add the item to, from your pinned files list, or a template to use (see next section of this user guide).

Templates

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What are templates?

✨ You can create two templates for free. If you need more than two templates then you will need to purchase the Templates extension in-app purchase.

You may find yourself wanting to speed up adding certain types of items in beorg - daily reviews, keeping a journal, adding tasks for completion tomorrow.

beorg gives you the ability to create templates. A template defines one or more of the following:

Search

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You can use Search from either the agenda, in which case it is limited to the current week being displayed, or from the TODO tab. Type some words to search for, or a phrase in double quotes, for example "sales meetings". To narrow down your search even more there is a simple syntax.

New syntax

As of beorg 3.39.0 there is a new search syntax. Any search that starts with a / will use this.

URL Scheme

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If you use apps such as Shortcuts or Drafts then you may find the beorg URL scheme useful. The URL scheme allows you to launch the beorg app and do one of the following:

Add a new item to a file
View the agenda
View the tasks tab, optionally showing the results of a search
View a specific file
Search for items and return the results as a JSON dictionary, new in beorg 2.12.0

beorg supports x-success and x-cancel arguments, however they are not mandatory.

Editing files on your computer

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beorg writes files using the Org mode syntax. Whilst you can edit these files using any text editor a text editor which understands Org mode will work best. Org mode was written for the Emacs editor and if you want to use all of the many features supported by Org mode then you will want to use Emacs. However there are plugins for other editors including Visual Studio Code, ViM, Sublime Text and others. These will only support a small fraction of what Org mode is capable of, however beorg only supports a small fraction of the power of Emacs Org mode anyway.

An Introduction to beorg Scripting

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Introduction

beorg comes with a scripting language based on Scheme. Some examples of what you can use this for:

Setting some advanced options which aren’t exposed on the Settings tab.
Modifying the toolbar shown above the keyboard when you are editing notes. This can include extending the text editor with custom commands such as inserting a timestamp.
Defining additional filters available on the TODO tab.

The version of Scheme included in beorg is called BiwaScheme, you can find out more on the BiwaScheme home page.

Keyboard Shortcuts

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beorg 3.3.0+ comes with extensive support for external keyboards. To see the available keyboard shortcuts available at any point in the app hold down the ⌘ key on your keyboard.

If you are into customizing beorg then you can change any of the keyboard shortcuts below in your init.org. For example…

(define-key "tabbar" "s-a" ".agenda")

…will allow you to use ⌘-A to switch to the agenda tab instead of the default ⌘-1.

library.org

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beorg uses the Scheme interpreter BiwaScheme to provide a way to offer advanced customization of the app.

When beorg starts the file library.org, which is bundled with the app, is read. If you have created a file in beorg called init then that will be read immediately afterwards. By reading library.org you can familiarize yourself with the possibilities for customizing beorg.

You can download library.org, and some other files related to the scripting in beorg:

Available editor toolbar icons

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The following icons are available to use in editor and REPL toolbars:

Icon name
icon-add
icon-alarm
icon-bolt
icon-cal
icon-change
icon-checkbox
icon-clock
icon-cross
icon-db
icon-down
icon-email
icon-export
icon-file
icon-filter
icon-folder
icon-help
icon-left
icon-list
icon-right
icon-settings
icon-star
icon-time
icon-todolist
icon-tools
icon-trash
icon-up

Some examples of how I use saved searches in beorg

Thu, 07 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000

The new search engine, introduced in beorg 3.39.0, gives you a much more expressive syntax for finding what you need. Not only is it a more powerful syntax, but beorg now gives you the results almost instantly - even when you have hundreds of .org files.

I’ve upgraded all of my saved searches to use the new syntax. This article provides a quick rundown of my searches, and may give you some ideas.

beorg 3.39.0 - a new search syntax

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Introducing a New Search Syntax in beorg 3.39 🚀

Search is at the heart of how you work with your Org files. Whether you’re tracking tasks, managing projects, or just trying to find that one headline buried somewhere, speed and precision matter.

beorg 3.39.0 introduces a brand new search syntax that’s not only far more powerful - but dramatically faster too.

⚡ Why a New Search?

Until now, searching in beorg worked by:

A look at how sync works in beorg

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000

beorg stores all of your projects, tasks, and notes in plaintext files. You may have one text file or hundreds. These text files are usually synchronized with a service such as iCloud or Dropbox. In this article I’ll be giving a little more detail about how this sync process works, and what to do if it isn’t working properly.

When you start beorg, or finish using the app, it will sync your files. You can choose to have a sync performed each time you modify a file. To do this make sure “Auto sync on modify” is enabled on the Settings tab. For users’ of iCloud a sync may be triggered by iCloud spotting an update to a file.

beorg 3.36.0

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000

beorg 3.36.0 is now available as an update on the App Store.

The headline changes in this release are:

The item editor can be swiped down to dismiss if no changes. This behaviour does mean that the item editor is no longer full screen on phones, however this behavior can be changed by setting ui-item-editor-phone-fullscreen to #t.
If a search starts with a ‘(’, which indicates a Scheme search, then no search will take place until the search ends with a ‘)’.
The agenda day quick capture + buttons can now use a default template, if you have one set, when populating the item editor. There are two new Scheme variables associated with this agenda-day-quick-capture-use-default-template and agenda-day-quick-capture-date-type. You can set these in your init.org or using the Customize UI.

Many of the changes in beorg come from user suggestions. Everyone uses beorg differently, and it is always fascinating to hear which features are important to you. When evaluating your suggestions, I look at a number of factors, including:

Configure Quick Capture to add tasks to the beginning of a file

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0000

By default beorg adds new tasks to the end of a file. For example, if this is your inbox.org…

* TODO Build shed
* IN-PROGRESS Buy fence paint

…and you add the task “Book restaurant”, inbox.org will become…

beorg 3.33.0

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:21:47 +0000

I’m excited to announce a bigger than usual beorg update. Firstly, I’d like to thank everyone who gets in touch with suggestions for improvements to beorg. A number of the improvements in this latest release wouldn’t have happened without your emails. As a user of beorg myself, I’ve been enjoying the performance improvements 🚀 and new features during testing over the past couple of weeks. I’m looking forward to getting these into your hands so you too can feel the benefits!

beorg 3.33.0

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:00:00 +0000

I’m going to be posting now from a new main Apps On The Move blog - and hopefully more frequently! You can follow using RSS or subscribe at posts.appsonthemove.com.

To read all about the changes in beorg 3.33.0 go straight to posts.appsonthemove.com/beorg-3-33-0.

Talking to myself with org-journal and Raycast

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:15:00 +0000

My working day involves tackling projects for a multitude of clients, as well as working on my own apps. My use of Org mode for managing projects and tasks prevents me from getting lost in the woods, but it can be difficult to remember exactly what I’ve accomplished in a day. It can be all too easy to think that you’re not getting much done, even when apps are being published and new projects are being quoted for.

How do I attach a calendar event to a scheme search?

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:19:51 +0000

I tried searching the forums but didn’t get an answer, here is the scheme search I tried

#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
  (define (focus item)
    (and    (not (string=? (item-state item) "DONE"))
            (not (member "project" (item-tags item)))
        (or
            (string=? (item-priority item) "A")
            (string=? (item-state item) "DOING")
            (string=? (item-file item) "calendar-beorg")
            (member "calendar-beorg.org" (item-file item))
            (member "cal" (item-file item))
            (date-in-range? (item-scheduled item))
            (date-in-range? (item-active-date item))
            (date-in-range? (item-deadline item))
        )))
#+END_SRC

Noodle Jigsaw, 6 March 2025

Can you give some more details about what you are trying to do? The file calendar-beorg is usually a file that beorgs writes to with calendar entries for the purposes of Emacs users who don’t want to mess around getting system calendars showing in the agenda. That however wouldn’t have custom states in. Hopefully if you can provide some more details as to what you would like beorg to search I can help you come up with a simpler way of doing this.

Beorg ignore files which has non-latin filename.

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:53:22 +0000

I’m Korean user. Beorg detects latin-character file names correctly. But it doesn’t read escaped-UTF-8 filenames. I use the org files on macOS and Linux. My Unicode settings of git are like this.

git config precomposeUnicode ture
git config quotepath off

Working Copy, Finder and git ls-files seems correct without broken text. Beorg display directory filename correctly. But, It cannot read org file inside the directory. The directory always has 0 files.

Hyperlink to Apple Photos?

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 07:12:32 +0000

Would it be possible for BeOrg to implement (say) an “apple:” hyperlink that can get photos directly from Apple Photos? I’d really like to make tasks that not only can describe the work that needs doing, but also provide a picture (or two) to illustrate the work. We could later setup a different definition for “apple:” under Org to link to a local directory of photos. I think we talked about using attachments for this at one time. The hard part is making the photos accessible on the iPhone.

Org-roam support

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 05:41:52 +0000

Recently, I came across with org-roam, which is a rudimentary implementation of Roam Research. Given the increasing popularity of Roam Research, could you consider supporting org-roam on beorg?

Apple Sprout, 23 April 2020

Thanks for pointing me at this. I have read a little about Roam and org-roam, something I need to investigate further.

Puzzle Widget, 27 January 2022

It would be a huge first step for this if we could browse and search (at least by filename) in subfolders.

beorg ignores files

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 03:30:31 +0000

I’m using beorg 3.25.1 on iOS 17.1.1. My org-files reside in a git-repository that is managed by Working Copy. In beorg I have setup sync via “Choose Folder” and then selected the folder Working Copy provides. In my init.org I enabled subfolders. All subfolders are recognized fine. The problem is that beorg doesn’t recognize all org-files in my folder structure and I can’t see a pattern to this. I open beorg and everything is shown. After a second or so a lot of tasks simply vanish. This can also be seen in the files tab where beorg shows the number of files below the folder name. Beorg opens and it shows e. g. 12 files in the folder. A second later it’s zero files.

Beorg removes empty lines between headings on sync

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:49:29 +0000

From what I understand Beorg should not remove the empty lines between subtrees i.e.

Level 1

** Level 2

< empty space

Level 1

** Level 2

but when I update an item from the agenda screen, sync via dropbox, and revert the buffer in Emacs the space between my headings is removed:

* Level 1

** Level 2

Level 1

** Level 2

This makes it more difficult to read my file as I prefer some empty space to delineate the subtrees.

No luck in creating a Saved Search showing results grouped by tag

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 09:04:17 +0000

New to Beorg and trying to create a saved search listing all TODO or WAITING tasks that have a ‘people’ tag. Example: Task one tagged Fred, Tag two tagged George Using a search of t Fred t George but returns nothing if I use just t Fred it works Any help appreciated

Apple Twist, 3 February 2025

Currently beorg simple searches don’t support OR (i.e. has tag Fred OR has tag George). You can write more complex searches in Scheme, for example:

filters and long-press menu issue after 3.29.0

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 03:30:09 +0000

Hi there, I had some filters like,

#+BEGIN_SRC scheme (define (filter-done-today item) (and (string=? (item-state item) “DONE”) (or (today (item-scheduled item)) (today (item-deadline item)) (today (item-active-date item)))))

(filter-add “✅ DONE Today” (lambda (item) (filter-done-today item)))

And the customized long-press menu like,

#+begin_src scheme (define (set-current-item-with-ARCHIVE-tag) ;; https://appsonthemove.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/14000020471 (set-current-item-tags! ‘(“ARCHIVE”))) (define (schedule-current-item-for-today) (set-current-item-scheduled! (current-date))) (define (schedule-current-item-for-tomorrow) (set-current-item-scheduled! (date-adjust (current-date) 1 ‘days))) (define (deadline-current-item-for-today) (set-current-item-deadline! (current-date))) (define (deadline-current-item-for-tomorrow) (set-current-item-deadline! (date-adjust (current-date) 1 ‘days)))

Sync Reminder to a file.

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 04:10:59 +0000

Now that we got “Sync Calendar to a file”, how far is “Sync Reminder to a file”?

DOABILITY:

I noticed that beorg already has the ability to fetch the “Reminder” into “Beorg Tasks” (by tabbing Settings>Configure Reminders>Authorize), so is it feasible to implement “Sync Reminder to a file” now?

USAGE:

This will helps syncing Reminder todos from iOS to OrgMode, just like syncing Calendar events to Org-agenda.

COMMENT:

Emacs users who bought an iPhone will appreciate this (and will definitely pay for this)!

beorg 3.30.0

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 04:06:06 +0000

This update includes a new beorg extension to sync your Reminders, from the Reminders app, to a file. This works in a similar way to the “Sync Calendar to a File” extension.

Also in this update are some improvements to how Reminders are shown in beorg:

The Reminder priority will now be shown on the Agenda and Tasks tab

Puzzle Widget, 26 November 2024

I love this update, thank you for putting the effort into deeper integration with iOS built-ins like Reminders

Sync conflicts

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:32:46 +0000

I’m getting the Beorg popup about sync conflicts almost all the time. I sync via Working Copy and I think it’s been working quite well, but I could easily be missing something. It would help if Beorg could more specifically say which files have a potential sync conflict.

Doodle Cloud, 24 December 2024

Are you getting the message:

Some local changes were possibly overwritten during the sync. You can retrieve any lost changes by examining the file backups on the Files tab and swiping on the following:

Excluding directory from agenda

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:06:35 +0000

Hello!

I saw in the init.org/library.org documentation that individual org files could be excluded from the agenda, but I was curious if this could be done for a whole directory of files.

I have a large collection of org files (~1.7k), and building the agenda with this many files is extremely slow; I’d like to move some of these files into subfolders such that they’re still editable with Beorg, but aren’t used for building the agenda, to speed this process up.

Sync only list of files specified in init.org

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 09:45:05 +0000

I have 3000+ org files total split across subfolders (org-roam!), so syncing subfolders takes forever. The app has been syncing since yesterday morning and it’s only gotten through <500 files.

In Emacs, you can specify a list of org-agenda-files, including files in subfolders. I only use beorg to read my agenda, so I only need my org-agenda-files synced. With the new subfolders feature (+ maybe the ability to exclude particular files), is it possible to selectively sync only my list of agenda files, even if some of them are in subfolders?

Org Mobile ?

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:35:03 +0000

Matt,

It appears that the MobileOrg app has been deprecated from Org, but it looks like they’ve incorporated an Org Mobile protocol into the description of Org. Have you seen section 15.14 of the Org manual? How does it apply to BeOrg? Perhaps you should adjust to it and contribute to it to help set the standard for integrating with Org?

Doodle Cloud, 22 March 2019

MobileOrg takes an asymmetric sync approach, rather than syncing directly with a users org files. Whilst this does have some advantages, I imagine in conflict resolution, I feel it requires more from the user in terms of understanding how it works. I want people to use beorg who aren’t necessarily already Org mode users. I’m starting to see some evidence that this is happening. One recent review on the App Store said that beorg was their “gateway drug to emacs”. If I moved to the MobileOrg approach for sync users wouldn’t be able to use beorg and not already be Emacs users but maybe use Org mode plugins for other text editors.

beorg 3.29.0

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 13:52:53 +0000

There are two headline new features in this release:

A new advanced customization user interface which allows many tweaks to be made to beorg which before required an init.org file
Greater flexibility over how .org files are formatted with respect to blank lines before a new headline

This releases allows beorg to be more flexible in how .org files are formatted. By default beorg will now add a blank line above each headline, but respect manually edited files that have more or less blank lines above headlines.

Insert a new line

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 14:04:55 +0000

Hello, while optimising a template for storing text from web pages I wanted to insert (also) a new line in the „default notes“ field. However, none of the %(newline)% and different variants of \n is accepted by the interpreter. Most probably, my Scheme knowledge is not at the level needed…

Thank you very much for any advice.

Pickle Wonder, 19 November 2024

Please post a screenshot of your template, an example of what the current ‘output’ from the template looks like (i.e. an example item created using the template) and how you would like the output to look. That will help me understand what you are trying to do and see if we can come up with a solution.

Is it possible to customize the per-date capture template?

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:53:45 +0000

First, thank you very much for all the effort that you put into this app. I use it daily and found it to be extremely useful!

Second, I would to know if it is possible to customize the per-date capture template, which you can launch using the + sign next to an agenda date.

Appreciate any help.

Rocket Twist, 15 November 2024

beorg news - October 2024

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:21:48 +0000

Until I logged into Substack just now, I hadn’t realised it had been quite this long since the last beorg newsletter. I had initially intended for this to be a monthly affair, but oh well!

Thanks for reading beorg news! Subscribe for free to receive new posts.

Since the last newsletter almost a year ago, there have been 14 updates made to beorg, just over one per month. Some of the updates have been for bug fixes. Here are some of the new features that have been released in the past year:

Use multiple file extensions e.g. .org and .txt

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 02:15:06 +0000

Is anyone interested in being able to read more than one file extension from a directory? For example, I save org files with both .org and .txt file extensions:

Cherry Comet, 6 October 2021

I would love this feature. For several years now there has been an annoying Apple Watch bug that requires a .txt extension when using a Shortcut Action to Append to Text File. This makes it more difficult for me to quickly add tasks to BeOrg … having both .txt and .org files recognized at the same time would be great.

Can Beorg do a sorted priority list?

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:58:05 +0000

Across all tasks or limited to a file (category)?

Doodle Cloud, 9 January 2023

Yes, you can do this. For example “g p > s” will group the results by priority and then sort within each priority by state (so that todo starts come before done starts).

If you tap the ? on the bar that appears above the keyboard when searching you’ll find an overview of how to group and sort.

Use CREATED property for the timestamp when an entry is created

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 03:46:55 +0000

This is a minor thing. Currently an inactive timestamp is added to the body of the entry. However, one convention (from (org-expiry-insert-created) and also the case in Orgzly) is to put this inactive timestamp under a specific property called CREATED, which seems somehow tidier to me. Would it be possible to make it at least a toggable option? Thanks.

Friendly Jack, 28 November 2020

I see that properties editing seems to be a paid feature. Maybe that’s a reason why this is not the default. Still, it would be nice to have this option for users who enabled this feature (if it’s not there yet).

Support for macOS Catalina

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:45:54 +0000

Now that it will be possible to easily port iPad apps to the Mac with the Catalyst program, I would like to put in a request to port the BeOrg iPad app to macOS. According to the hype, it is just a few hours work to port an iPad app to macOS.

I am not an Emacs user, and get by using Atom with the Organize plugin for viewing my Org files on macOS, but the Beorg interface is far, far superior.

Active Timer Widget

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:46:13 +0000

I’d love to be able to add a widget for the active timer in beorg. The existing widgets are useful but limited. Thanks for considering!

Plum Comet, 10 August 2022

That is an interesting idea. There would be some limitations - if you are using beorg and Emacs at the same and beorg hasn’t synced the latest files, and therefore doesn’t know what the current timer is, what you see would be out of date. However if just using beorg to manage the timers then beorg could easily persist some basic information about the running timer and display in a widget.

Is it possible to mark calendar entries as busy/free time?

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:46:09 +0000

When exporting entries to calendar the exported entries show up as “busy” time.

Is it possible to mark some entries to be exported as “free” time.

I believe at least Outlook, Google calendar and Apple calendar would support this.

Thanks,

lenny
Lemon Pudding, 3 September 2024

Thanks for the suggestion. For your use case how would you see that decision being made (i.e. busy or free)?

Puzzle Widget, 3 September 2024

Matthew

beorg 3.28.1

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:10:42 +0000

You can now disable notifications for tasks with a date, but no time. See “Include all day tasks?” on the Settings tab.
Fix for use of expansion macros (such as %year%) when applying a template to a new item using the beorg URL scheme.

Puzzle Widget, 23 August 2024

Variables in template filename doesn’t work after Shortcuts callback

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:35:50 +0000

I have template with dynamically filename via variables, when i use it in beorg app it works, but not when i send x-callback from ios shortcuts app. Looks like variables escaping, see screenshot.

Noodle Glow, 9 April 2021

Thanks for reporting this. I’ve made a note to look into what is happening here.

Puzzle Widget, 9 August 2024

This still appears to be an issue with url callback. The variables in filenames work just fine internally when using a template. For instance it will add a task to the file with this name: “Daily 2023-10-07”

export themes

Sun, 18 Aug 2024 20:43:33 +0000

Heres a nice dark theme i made. I wanted something easier on the eyes.

I used the app fontcase so i could use the font Roboto Mono

make a new file called groovy black:

* groovy black

#+begin_src css
@include "Modern";

body {
  background-color: #2c2c2c;
  font-family: Roboto Mono;
  color: #8f8f8f;
}

a {
  color: darkseagreen;
  text-decoration: none; /* This removes the underline */
}

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
  color: orange;

ul, ol {
  color: white;
}

#+end_src

Beorg and latest Org

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:46:10 +0000

Just curious.

Has beorg had to adapt to any new features in Org lately? It seems like Org is going through a lot of versions lately.

Doodle Cloud, 4 August 2024

beorg doesn’t support many of the more advanced features of Org mode, what it does support I believe is unlikely to change. (There isn’t any code from Org mode included in beorg.) I haven’t noticed anything which is causing any issues. If you’ve spotted something which is no longer working between beorg and Org mode let me know and I’ll take a look.

beorg 3.27.6

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:40:27 +0000

Yet another fix for the widget - this time a fix for when an item title is truncated and stops further items from showing.

Puzzle Widget, 31 July 2024

Support Org habit syntax '.+2d/3d'

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:12:17 +0000

I would much much appreciate if you could support org habit syntax ‘.+2d/3d’.

Please refer this, 5.3.3 Tracking your habits

Or maybe at least make it show correctly in Agenda and TODO, which cannot show currently.

Doodle Button, 6 April 2021

Really need this!

Friendly Button, 3 November 2021

I need this feature too!

I’m trying to use org mode for habit tracking. Curently, Beorg recognizes and handles org habits as org-repeat tasks. If I don’t set the state of the every habits to done over days, It’ll stacked up as every single tasks on days.

Update Percentages of master tasks when subtasks are completed

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:49:38 +0000

In addition to hoping that the habit functionality is added:

I have some tasks with subtasks, where it is useful to see the percentage completed, This is automatic in emacs for a master task that is written

TASK [%] or
TODO TASK [%] (scheduled or not)

When I mark a subtask done in emacs, the percentage of the master task is automatically updated appropriately.

e.g.

Main Thing [33%]

** DONE thing 1

Recurring event/meeting with timestamp

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:48:39 +0000

Beorg documents recurring tasks but I would like a recurring events or meetings. In other words I’d like to have recurring items which aren’t “TODO” and/or “DONE”. They just are.

For example the following works when I mark this task as DONE.

* TODO A task
<2024-07-08 +1d>

beorg will make a note saying the task was DONE at some time,set the state back to TODO, then increment that active timestamp to 2024-07-09 so it displays on the next day in the cycle.

3.27.5

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 08:26:08 +0000

This release contains a bug fix for filenames which use the affliated title keyword and additional spaces were present.

Puzzle Widget, 9 July 2024

3.27.4

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 08:34:44 +0000

This release includes a bug fix:

Fix for links causing issues with not displaying all tasks in agenda widget

Puzzle Widget, 1 July 2024

Cannot change app icon to default

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:59:26 +0000

Steps to reproduce:

Change app icon to something other than the default. Get a message confirming you changed the icon.
Attempt to change the icon back to the default. No confirmation message appears but the icon choice screen closes.
Check the home screen: the icon is still the non-default choice selected in step 1.

Tango Worry, 27 June 2024

Often issues with changing icons are resolving by restarting your iPhone. I’ve had this issue with many apps (including beorg) and seems to be an iOS bug. Let me know how you get on with trying this.

the widget shows in 24 hour time

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:24:30 +0000

even though the in app agenda view shows 12 hour correctly.

Bubble Comet, 8 February 2024

You can explicitly set the date and time formats beorg uses. This may help, see the Scheme variables org-date-format, org-date-time-format and org-time-format.

In Settings > General > Date & Time, is 24-Hour Time on or off, and in Settings > General > Language & Region what is Region set to? This may help me reproduce the issue you are experiencing.

3.27.3

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:33:06 +0000

This update fixes an issue with the beorg widget not necessarily showing all tasks when a custom search is used. The widget should also now better fit the number of tasks displayed to the size of the widget.

Puzzle Widget, 25 June 2024

System specific processing in BeOrg

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 17:00:54 +0000

Does Beorg support system-type like Emacs does?

I’d like to reference photos stored on a USB key. The problem is that the USB key will be mounted in one location on Linux and another location on the iPhone. One suggestion I’ve seen was:

Alternatively, you can define a link abbreviation:

#+link: local-file /home/user/

[[local-file:wallpaper.png]]

and then load it via #+SETUPFILE with different setupfiles on PC and

phone.

Beorg SCHEDULED format incorrectly displays in Emacs Org agenda

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 22:03:43 +0000

Hi,

When I add a scheduled task with a start and end time, Beorg formats it as:

SCHEDULED: <2024-05-03 Fri 17:00>--<2024-05-03 Fri 18:00>

Whereas when I schedule a task in Emacs, it’s formatted as:

SCHEDULED: <2024-05-03 Fri 17:00-18:00>

Both of these appear in the agenda, but Beorg’s format creates a duplicate entry like:

Whereas Emacs’ entry displays as I would expect it to:

This is a little time-consuming to have to manually edit Beorg’s entry in Emacs so it appears in the agenda as a single-line entry. It seems impossible to change this behavior in Beorg as when I manually edit SCHEDULED to be consistent with what Emacs expects, Beorg changes it back when I save the task.

REPEAT complete keep REPEAT state

Tue, 28 May 2024 16:04:04 +0000

Once a repeating task is completed and I mark done its state goes to TODO instead of staying REPEAT. I thought setting the property

:RETURN_TO_STATE: t

Would fix but that doesn’t seem to be it. What am I missing?

Puzzle Jigsaw, 27 May 2024

beorg doesn’t currently understand the RETURN_TO_STATE property. You can set org-todo-repeat-to-state in your init.org file if you always return a repeating task to the REPEAT state. For example:

S3 backend sync

Tue, 28 May 2024 15:31:15 +0000

Any chance of supporting S3 as well, in addition to Dropbox, WebDAV, etc.? Happy to pay for it as an extension of course.

Pippin Moon, 24 May 2024

Let’s see if any other users are interested in this. I’m a little reluctant to add new sync methods as they have a heavy overhead in terms of maintaining and supporting them. beorg can sync with a folder from another app - so if you have any app which does the S3 syncing you may be able to use that with beorg.

Calendar syncing and birthdays

Sat, 18 May 2024 19:21:59 +0000

Dear Matthew,

I’ve been using Beorg without a problem for years now. Recently, I discovered that one of my files called “calendar.org” stopped getting synced with the remote webdav. I don’t use the “Sync calendar to a file” extension and my calendar file name is set to “calendar-beorg” (I don’t think it matters, since I don’t use the extension anyway).

I fixed the problem by renaming my “calendar.org” file to “events.org”. However, I wonder if this behavior is a regression or the intended behavior.

Beorg removing spaces from task notes

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:04:06 +0000

Hey,

Some of my org mode tasks contain quite detailed notes that have spaces between paragraphs of text.

I noticed that when I interact with a task in Beorg (ie changing its state) the formatting of the spaces are removed, and the text is joined together in one long paragraph.

Is there a way to prevent this from happening, and to preserve my formatting?

Best,

Tom

Bubble Pixel, 4 April 2024

If you could post a before and after example that would be helpful in investigating your issue. beorg should keep newlines, for example if you have the notes:

How to run a Saved search without getting the Add Search popup?

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:56:56 +0000

Hi,

In the Tasks tab, is it possible to use a Saved search without triggering the “Add search” popup?

The only way I could figure on how to get to the list of Saved seatches is by clicking the circled plus on the right hand side of the search field. But that button also triggers the display of the “Add search” popup. So every time I want to run my saved searches:

How do I customize the swipe/long press drop down menu?

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 04:21:36 +0000

I know that you can customize the item editor menu with init.org, but the item editor menu shows only after you click to open an item.

Is there a way to customize the swipe and/or long press menu just like the item editor menu?

Banana Ribbon, 24 August 2023

It isn’t currently possible to customise this. What sort of things are you looking to add?

Puzzle Widget, 29 August 2023

For me, adding something similar to item-editor-menu would be great. The attached image showed what I mean.

beorg 3.27.0 update

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:58:48 +0000

The calendar org file created by beorg now contains a line informing Emacs it is read only
Tapping the + against a Tasks group will now correctly prefill based on the group by specifier used in the search
Long press a template in the “Manage Templates” screen, and you can now duplicate the template
Speed up Tasks tab loading of tasks

Puzzle Widget, 17 April 2024

Space in filename leads to issue when adding new task from +-action in task view

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:50:23 +0000

Hello!

I’ve noticed the following issue:

when an .org file contains a space in its filename, then the “add” (+ symbol) action to add a new task in the “task view” of beorg, will result in creating a new file instead. The filename of the new file is a derived portion of the intended .org file from before.

Scenario:

create in “Files” a new file. Name it “test list”. This will result in a physical file “test list.org”.
create in “Agenda” a new capture template, which is configured with this file “test list”. So new tasks are going in there.
use the capture template. the new task gets properly added to “test list”.
create a search filter in “Tasks”, which lists then the previously added task from the file “test list” now on screen.
Use now the “+” symbol action on the upper part of the screen, which displays a “new task input sheet” display so to say, and here starts the issue: the “test list” filename gets chopped into “list” as starting part of the headline, and “test” is being used as the target file.
Since test (or “test.org” finally) doesn’t exist, it will create it automatically and will add that new entry, which was supposed to go into “test list.org”, now in “test.org”.
Create a new search filter for the file “test.org” and you will see the item was added there.

Attached a clip depicting the issue.

3.26.3

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 11:07:55 +0000

You can now customize the Scheme variable calendar-header-text if you want some custom text added to the start of the calendar org file.
Fix for template macros not updating when switching to saved search via Tasks bottom bar
Fix for issues with the Tasks tab properly remembering the selected search

Puzzle Widget, 9 April 2024

Inconsistency in saved-search result when switching back from "Show All"

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:09:53 +0000

Hello!

I detected an inconsistency in the displayed result of a search result, when coming back from the “Show All” in “Tasks” view.

There is a noticable difference in the result shown vs. when the saved-search has been executed explicitly before and it requires a subsequent saved-search execution to arrive back at the expected result.

Following the steps to reproduce the observed behaviour:

create a new .org file (“test-savedsearch”)
add a number of entries with varying action states. I set up a simple capture template for that and entered a set of items.
now, also add a number of entries without any action state applied to.
create a saved search with the following definition:

 f test-savedsearch > deadline > scheduled k g s

execute the search and pay attention to the displayed result

Apple watch support

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 16:51:41 +0000

It is great that the Apple watch is supported, but it would be much improved if one could change the state of a task on it and have that change synced back to the iOS app. Is that on the radar for future implementation?

Thank you

Velvet Glow, 23 November 2019

Currently the Apple Watch app is very basic. I need to plan some improvements to it, as you suggest such as changing the state of a task. This isn’t currently planned but I do hope to look at in the near future.

duplicate from existing capture template

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 20:14:35 +0000

Hello!

Currently each capture template has to be created from scratch.

Would there be a possibility to create a duplicate from an existing capture template, so a user can use this as a start to modify things in order to finally create a next capture template?

For example currently there is a “swipe from right-2-left” action for “delete”.

Maybe in this list for this swipe action (or alternatively in a “swipe from left-2-right” for example) could be added an additional action, such as “duplicate”?

3.26.2

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:17:11 +0000

You can now use template macros in saved searches
Fix for Tasks tab toggling between Show All to a persisted Search not showing the expected results

Puzzle Widget, 27 March 2024

I have created a saved search using ha “ %year%-W%week%” and it stayed the same. How can I use the macros?

Tango Dash, 29 March 2024

That looks to be a bug. I’m going to get a fix out ASAP. Thanks!

Add tag in quick capture

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 11:32:51 +0000

Would be super helpful when the memory of the capture still is fresh.

Merry Juice, 30 March 2024

screen gets not updated after deletion of a saved-search

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:49:11 +0000

Hello,

I found this reproducible behaviour:

when a “saved search” gets deleted and one returns to the previous screen, it still displays the name of the just deleted saved search as well as results.

I don’t know to which saved search beorg should default to once a saved search got deleted, but returning back to the deleted saved search seems at least a bug.

Steps to reproduce:

create a saved search. it doesn’t matter name and what it does, just to have an instance of a saved search

Support image links/attachments in notes

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:31:40 +0000

It’s often useful to create notes with a file or image attachment,

it would be nice to have that be supported in BeOrg

No need for them to be styled inline, just supporting opening relative paths like [[./data/some_image.png][My Image]] within the synced folder and the “open in” share sheet would be enough

Right now it seems to treat the some_image.png as another org file instead (version 3.4.0)

Big fan of BeOrg, thanks for the effort

Org, Beorg, and Images (Oh My!)

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 03:05:55 +0000

Found an interesting article on using iPhone Shared Albums as a Website:

Shared Photo Album Websites

I got to thinking that this might be a quick and dirty way to include images in Tasks that is compatible with both Org and Beorg. This article allows you to take pictures with your iPhone, put them into the Shared Album, and reference the pictures by URL which is fully compatible with Org and (I think) Beorg.

x-callback-url title and name parameters ignored when template specified?

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:37:51 +0000

I’m trying to build a Shortcut using a beorg://x-callback-url/capture scheme. (as per various how-to docs)

Whenever I supply a template parameter and don’t also pass edit=true the shortcut fails with “The operation couldn’t be completed. (InterchangeCallbackErrorDomain error 0.)”.

Using edit=true I can see that whatever I pass in title and notes parameters is ignored and both are blank (which may be the cause of the error?).

I can reproduce by creating a default template called Test and then creating a single-action Shortcut which invokes beorg://x-callback-url/capture?template=Test&title=Anything&notes=Anything.

priority grouping having a sorting issue?

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:29:16 +0000

Hello,

when grouing items after priority, it seems items without priority set are not properly sorted. I probably would expect items without any priority set should be sorted as last items / at the bottom?

Steps to reproduce scenario:

create “testprio” org file
create a capture template for easy adding items
create a saved-search to display only items from this file, grouped by priority
add an item with prio A
add an item with prio F

org-roam like note taking

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 05:05:52 +0000

Hi,

I think world is missing org-roam “on the go” -support and I think beorg could be great candidate for that. Specially now when Notes-tab has appeared. I did not find any particular documentation on the “notes-page” but it seems to have ID property in the spirit of org-roam v2. Perhaps org-roam support is an epic for these small incremements we are seeing? This would be great!

I feel first step would be to be able to easily create fleeting notes from safari etc. using share menu. For me that would be the most typical use case anyway. To capture notes to process later. Text, Link or both with some headline. In the future, for fast fleeting notes creation I would like to see possibility save an image via shared menu to eg. predefined “assets” folder and have link to it same way as web pages now have.

Good iOS Markdown Viewer ?

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:19:48 +0000

Anyone know of a good Markdown viewer on iPhone? I’d like to export my Org files to Markdown and drop them onto a USB key that I (or my family) could read anywhere when needed.

Doodle Cloud, 4 January 2024

You can use Obsidian or Notebooks:

https://obsidian.md/mobile https://www.notebooksapp.com/ios/

Noodle Zest, 26 February 2024

Thanks. Obsidian looks very good. Do you know if the Markdown that Org exports is fully compatible with Obsidian and vice versa?

Calendar Sync

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:21:51 +0000

Please explain how the calendar sync works. If I add a calendar in settings, does it two way sync? Or only pulls items from these. And are items pulled from these calendars stored in the calendar file that the extension provides? Are items from the synced org file pushed to any calendar?

Velvet Dash, 2 March 2024

Hi, I just played around with the functionalities a bit.

If you enable “Sync Calendar to a file”, then you set a filename (“my-cals” for example). And you select in “Configure Calendars” which of the calendars (you can choose multiple) you want to have synced over to beorg. This function will create and continuously one-way sync any calendar entry from any of the configured “iCal cals” into that particular “local beorg cal file”. This file is used primarily to enable beorg displaying cal entries in the “Agenda” view. You are not supposed to edit in that particular “my-cals” .org file, as with every subsequent one-way sync - obviously - any changes would get overwritten again.

file selector when creating new capture template

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:52:31 +0000

Hello!

When creating a new capture template, currently the “Save To” requires the user to know the filename and enter it manually.

Unless the user wants to save it to a not yet existing .org file, the file would be automatically created and then manual entering of a (new) filename is reasonable.

But if the user wants to save it to an already existing .org file in beorg, is there a chance to get a file selector somehow, which allows the user to pick an existing filename?

deleted a forum post from me, then re-added a new post, but it is not appearing

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:21:49 +0000

Hello,

I just added a new response to this thread

https://appsonthemove.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/14000020486

but then saw some typos. Since there is no edit button for own existing posts, I deleted it, and submitted a corrected post. But that post is not showing up now. Since I thought I may have not properly clicked the “post comment” button, I re-did it, but also the 2nd time adding a new comment to the above thread mentioned, got submitted, but it just doesn’t appear.

Share org file across users

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:16:34 +0000

I recently got my wife to use beorg for managing todos, but this opened another can of worms. Is there a way to setup beorg so a folder/file is shared between two users, but not all files? Either using iCloud or WebDav?

Example User 1 in beorg personal_agenda_A.org shared_household_agenda.org

User 2 in beorg personal_agenda_B. org shared_household_agenda.org

Thanks for the help!

Lemon Dash, 28 February 2024

I haven’t tried this, but if you are using iCloud then you could enable folder syncing in beorg and then share one of the subfolders with the other person - and vice versa.

deletion of multiple files with subsequent sync attempt leads to reproducible app crash

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:01:28 +0000

Hello,

when I delete multiple files (2 are already sufficient for demonstration purposes) in beorg app, then attempt to sync this, the beorg app crashes. This observation is 100% reproducible.

I’ve removed all .org files, also no init.org, so the test scenario bases on a fully empty beorg, apart from a “calendar-beorg” (due to enabled “Sync Calendar to a file”), but which should not create any impact to this test scenario, I hope.

Sync attempt blocks saving work

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:01:02 +0000

Hello!

I’ve noticed an issue that on opening the beorg app, it tries to sync, but the server is not available at that moment, and then it takes a (too) long time till beorg cancels the sync and allows me to add new entries / use the app for editing (which implies saving stuff) purposes.

Setup:

iOS version 15.7.5
beorg version 3.26.1 (311)
(in case it matters: I bought all extensions, apart from “Box Sync”)
I set up WebDAV to a local IP address (192.168.x.x), with untrusted certificate enabled, and it all works usually
“Auto sync on modify” is disabled

Generally, with having “auto sync on modify” off, I thought the connection attempt to whatever sync method configured, is not done, until I trigger the sync explicitly via the top right menu option (“Perform Sync”).

Parameterized queries

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:15:33 +0000

Hi,

Is it possible to have parameterized Saved searches? I have been reading through the documentation and searched the forum for ideas , but either I missed it or not found it.

I did create an iOS shortcut to perform a tasks search. It’s not bad, but having to go out of the app to get back in seems a bit strange.

thank you

Tango Dash, 21 February 2024

Can you give me an example of how this would be used - and an example saved search with any required syntax added.

How to set specific tag with longpress menu?

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 05:44:16 +0000

Hello all,

To set “ARCHIVE” tag for the current item, I am using below config in my init.org,

(define (set-current-item-with-ARCHIVE-tag)
(set-current-item-tags! "ARCHIVE"))

(set! item-longpress-menu
'(("ARCHIVE this" (set-current-item-with-ARCHIVE-tag))))

But it didn’t work even I tried restarting beorg many times…

I would appreciate your support on this and teaching me how to fix!

Thanks so much!

Puzzle Jack, 22 February 2024

set-current-item-tags! requires a list to be provided. I think the following should work:

Extension Manager infos can't be read when beorg has no network connection

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:38:30 +0000

Hello!

This is a very minor issue, just wanted to mention it:

if the iPhone is not connected to a network, then tapping on “Extension Manager” in order to - for example - check out / read some infos about extensions, will first lead to the extension info area, then beorg points out extensions can’t be purchased right now (that’s fine), but then after the user acknowledges this hint, it returns to the previous screen. Would it be possible to stay on the extensions screen, so users could still read the given infos about extensions - not purchasing obviously, but being able to inform themselves about existing extensions?

Filtering items not tagged

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:35:11 +0000

Hi,

Is there a way to perform a search for items **not **tagged with a tag? Generally, is there a way to do a not matching

Tango Dash, 21 February 2024

Not using the simple syntax. You can however using Scheme searches - see https://beorg.app/manual/#more-advanced-searches for an example.

I do mean at some point make the non-Scheme syntax more flexible as it is perfectly reasonable to want to do negative matches.

Encryption in beorg

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:16:01 +0000

Some things about the “Encryption in beorg” paper:

Shouldn’t it be linked into the “How To Articles” page? Or is it referenced somewhere else?
Could you mention the lock button at the bottom of the Edit Task page as the way of encrypting/decrypting tasks. My first read of the page left me wondering how do I do this? Being one of your older users, I didn’t realize there was a new button there.
Can you mention how to clear/change the password on the iOS keychain?
You should explain the following sentence more: “If an item is encrypted you won’t be able to quick add notes from the agenda or TODO tab or use timers.” Where are timers explained?

Doodle Cloud, 27 September 2023

Good point about the lack of a user friendly introduction to encryption in beorg. I’ve hopefully rectified this with a new article, https://beorg.app/learning/beorg-encryption/

iOS 13 Shortcuts : Parameters and Conversational

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 11:45:44 +0000

Is there a plan to make use of the new iOS 13 Shortcut features to provide Parameterized shortcuts to add to ease of automation?

I love that beorg has a URL scheme but URL schemes are kin of clunky to use and require a lot of manual massaging in a shortcut.

I would happily pay (or subscribe) for such a feature.

Glitter Fizz, 26 September 2019

Yes, this is something I want to look at. If you have any specific use cases you would like to see covered please add to this topic.

How to best use beorg for

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:30:50 +0000

Hi,

I would appreciate some help from more experienced Beorg and Org users for the

I currently keep most of the tasks under the current day. I rarely use any dates (in any form, deadlines, schedules, appointments). In this context, I don’t know how to take advantage of either the Agenda and Tasks views.

For the Tasks view, I’d need something like “show children tasks of the current day heading”.

Hyperlink support?

Sun, 28 Jan 2024 18:31:51 +0000

It looks like you have (some?) support for Org Modes’s hyperlinks, but I don’t see documentation for how far that goes. In particular, I make use of Hyperlinks for creating a simple Contact database that doesn’t require any special extras (like an SQLite DB). I simply make an Org file with an outline of all my contacts where each contact has a header (the name of the person), some descriptive text about (perhaps a list of information), and a CUSTOM-ID property. I can then use hyperlinks in my other files to reference the contact like so:

Mirror Org Events to iOS Calendar

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:30:32 +0000

Would it be possible to mirror events to a calendar on iOS? Suppose we required each BeOrg user to create a calendar on iOS expressly for BeOrg. This calendar could then be shared (read-only?) with other accounts on iOS. Only the creator of the calendar would make changes to the calendar via BeOrg and that would be just add an Org event if it isn’t already there. Deleting Org events that have been marked as DONE (or simply deleted) would also be nice (unmatched IDs), but maybe not necessary (it’s an archive that way). Use-case: non-BeOrg users (like wife and children) now see your events in the normal iOS fashion – no new app to teach them.

Hourly repeating tasks

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 22:51:38 +0000

It would be great if beorg supported hourly repeating tasks. I’ve tried setting hourly repeats by editing the org files (for example, by adding “+8h” at the end of a date stamp) but then the app no longer recognizes this as a date. Hourly repeats appear to be part of the orgmode spec: https://orgmode.org/manual/Repeated-tasks.html

Clever Fizz, 2 November 2019

Currently the way that beorg constructs the agenda and schedules notifications makes supporting hourly repeating tasks harder than it possibly should do. This might become possible in the future but no plans in the short term to do this. Thanks for the suggestion though! What is your use case for hourly tasks?

beorg 3.26.0

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 13:04:53 +0000

New extension to create an org file with events from your system calendars. This is useful if you use Emacs and would like your Org-mode agenda to show events in your calendar without complex configuration in Emacs. This new extension is available to beorg Premium subscribers, and can be purchased separately if you don’t have a subscription.
More details about the available extensions in beorg, useful for both deciding whether to purchase and for tips after you’ve added.

Create a new task from the iOS widget

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:27:45 +0000

Hi, first thank you for this awesome app! I use the iOS widget a lot, and find that I often start the app mostly to add new elements. Would it be possible to add a button that would start the app in « new task » mode directly?

I couldn’t find a post for that feature in the forum.

Thank you!

Maple Glow, 8 January 2024

Thanks for adding this Simon. I do want to re-implement the widget at some point, so any further ideas for improvements please feel free to add to the forum.

All no priority headers are coming up as B priority

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 19:57:52 +0000

I have a saved search of ‘g p > o’. Noticed that all headers that do not have a priority or being listed under the B priority. This includes all headers that do not have a task associated with it. Is there a way of handling this?

Doodle Cloud, 6 January 2024

I’ll look at fixing this bug. Currently any item which doesn’t have a priority is assigned the priority B for the purposes of sorting. It seems as though that default is leaking through to the grouping, which isn’t right.

Per-item alerting

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:16:21 +0000

Instead of a default one-size-fits-all (timed task reminders setting), it would be nice to be able to specify advanced alerting on a per-item basis (some items the default alert is fine, but some items I may need more of less time, I.e., 5 minutes before an online meeting or 15 minutes before some other kind of event.

Maybe someone’s developed a hook where if I were to include a “:ALERT: -5m” property on an item it could pick it up?

OneDrive support

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 06:08:20 +0000

Well, that is it, really: support for OneDrive as a storage backend would be awesome.

Noodle Glow, 5 January 2019

I like the idea, that would be nice to have support for several storage backends.

I use Dropbox just for BeOrg sync, my usual cloud storage is Google Drive.

Mango Button, 7 January 2019

If people want to use this post as a place to put their vote in for OneDrive support that would be great. There are many different storage backends - each of which has an overhead for ongoing maintenance, so I want to make sure there are sufficient users before adding additional options.

Can't get Dropbox or Box sync to work.

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 10:24:09 +0000

I have been successfully using icloud sync for a while now. All the folders are there, and the sync works. I’ve now got multiple ios devices with more than one Apple ID, so icloud won’t sync the same org text files over different ID’s.

Have tried both Dropbox & Box, both syncs have failed. I installed the app, activated the account, linked it in beorg. First sync says ’error downloading files, something went wrong’. Same thing for both services.

Widget date sometimes stuck on each Monday unless open app

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 10:21:13 +0000

My observation on both iPad Pro (with latest iPadOS) and iPhone (iOS 15.8): when a Monday arrives, the widget date updates to this Monday, which is expected. Then starting from the next day (the following Tuesday), the date shown on the widget won’t update so it’s stuck on the Monday. For me this happens quite often.

The workaround is to open the app, then the date on the widget is updated.

Allow font size adjustments in widgets

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 15:49:20 +0000

Recent updates have increased the font size in widgets by what seems like a lot. Would be nice to be able to adjust it and fit more items in widgets again.

Thank you for all your work!

Tango Worry, 29 November 2023

The text in the agenda widget now uses dynamic type - so should take into account your text size preference. However, I agree the text is now possibly a little large. I will take a look to see if I can reduce whilst keeping the benefits of dynamic text for users who require large font sizes.

support for multiple dates

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 11:44:14 +0000

Hi,

thanks for the great app! Some of my todos look like this:

Take kids to school

<2023-11-27 Mon>

<2023-11-29 Wed>

<2023-11-30 Thu>

..but beorg doesn’t seem to show this as intended. Could you please add support for it?

Thanks!

Best,

Martin

Apple Spark, 28 November 2023

I’ve added support for parsing these dates and showing in the agenda. Expect to see this change in the next beorg update in December. I am planning at some point to overhaul the UI for settings dates, which currently only allows you to set/edit one date of each ’type’, so the UI won’t support this yet.

3.25.0/3.25.1

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 11:39:29 +0000

The share extension has (finally) been rewritten. You can now choose from your pinned files or or a template. beorg now understands better what you are sharing - for example if sharing from Apple Music the album or song title will be inserted.
A new Scheme variable item-longpress-menu allows you to add to the menu shown when you longpress an item on the Agenda or Tasks tab.
Fix for filters added via Scheme add-filter method only matching items with a state.

Expand “Set Action” dialog depending on screen size.

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:18:11 +0000

I have seven task States that I use. “RESEARCH TODO NEXT ‘IN PROGRESS’ | DONE WAITING CANCELLED”

Even on my 12.9” iPad Pro I have to scroll the Set Action dialog box to be able to tap DONE. Could this dialog box be larger on larger screens?

Mango Zest, 18 November 2023

I’ve made a note of this, as kind of silly that the dialog is so small on much larger screens. Thank you for posting this.

Capture for Apple Watch

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:17:09 +0000

The only feature that the Apple Watch really needs is a capture feature - using voice or scribble.

Maple Fizz, 18 November 2023

I’ve just rewritten the beorg share extension. I’m hoping to get onto the Apple Watch app, and the home screen widget at some point soon-ish to also improve those.

Puzzle Widget, 20 November 2023

beorg news - November 2023

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:01:56 +0000

News, plans and how to get organized using beorg

beorg newsletter - November 2023

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000

The November 2023 beorg newsletter is out now.

org-journal Support

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 07:34:31 +0000

Using org-journal on OSX, generates daily/monthly/yearly journal files without file extension (e.g. 20190101). The problem is that putting an .org extension (e.g. 20190101.org) breaks org-journal search function.

In beorg side, since these journal files have no extension, they can’t be seen in beorg, hence impossible to create a template for them.

Is it possible in beorg to create a specific settings for downloading journal files which have no extension?

Best,

Teaching Emacs to recognize Jira tickets and show them in a browser using Hyperbole implicit buttons

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000

It’s difficult to describe the Emacs package Hyperbole succinctly, so I’m not even going to try 😅. I was looking for a quick way of opening Jira tickets from an Org mode file, and Hyperbole was the way. There are YouTube videos and articles on Hyperbole, but I found very little describing in one place what I wanted to do. Hopefully others might find this useful.

As well as developing my own apps, such as beorg, I work as a freelancer for a number of clients; three of my clients use Jira. The way I work is that each month I create a new file for that client and list tickets I’m to work on, record time against said tickets for the purposes of billing and make notes. This reduces the amount of time I need to spend in Jira itself.

3.24.0

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 13:21:36 +0000

Better localization of date and time formats
Override date and time formats for display using the Scheme variables org-date-format, org-date-time-format and org-time-format
Fix for managing your beorg subscription from within the app
The STARTUP keyword is used to decide folding when an outline is opened. If this isn’t defined for a file then the Scheme variable org-startup-folded is used (defaults to “overview”)
New reset-scheme command to reset the Scheme content and reload the init.org file (if it exists)

beorg 3.24.0 - dates, outlines and the init.org file

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000

beorg 3.24.0

Better localization of date and time formats

A beorg user got in touch recently to say that even though their iPhone was set to show time using the 12-hour clock, beorg was showing a mixture of 12 and 24-hour clock across the UI. On digging into this a little more I discovered an app wide inconsistency in how dates and times were displayed. In the .org files that beorg writes there is a specific date and time format which must always use the 24-hour clock, and the date written as year-month-day. However, when dates are displayed to the user a good iOS citizen should respect the region set on the device.

Support for 'archive' files ?

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 02:18:33 +0000

Org has two ways of archiving tasks – mark them as archived in the current Org file or move them to an archive file. To keep an Org file from getting too cluttered with archive, most people will probably opt for separate archive files.

Could (should?) BeOrg support archive files? I would guess Org operations would have to expand to include ‘.org_archive’ files, but, since they’re Org files as well, little else would need doing (CMIIAW). The question is would this unnecessarily blow up memory on the iPhone?

Bug: Change in tags position ?

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:36:05 +0000

Not sure how this is happening yet, but I suspect that BeOrg is involved. I tend to put my .org files into CVS. Lately, I’ve been noticing that CVS sometimes reports the only change is the position of the Tags on the Header line. For awhile, I assumed that it was something in the settings of Orgmode in Emacs, but I couldn’t find anything. In theory, Orgmode should always be positioning the tags such that they end at a certain column (haven’t found the variable yet), so, if I don’t change the tags, there should be no change for CVS to pick up. This last time, I noticed that a file that I Rsynced over from my BeOrg Dropbox area had changed the position of the tags. I think it was the only file that I had looked at in BeOrg Files – I don’t think I had changed anything. A diff on the file with my backup showed the only difference was the position of the tags on the header lines. Looking at it even further, it appears that not every header line with tags was affected (perhaps the ones that were affected were the ones that were unfolded?) and that those that were affected had extra space added.

Drawers support

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:24:00 +0000

Drawers are a standard feature of org mode described in the manual https://orgmode.org/manual/Drawers.html They look like:

** This is a headline Still outside the drawer :DRAWERNAME: This is inside the drawer. :END: After the drawer.

They can be folded or unfolded with the usual visibility cycling.

On Android orgzly they are supported, and I use them there to hide code that is emacs dependent.

Presently beorg simply ignore them.

Drawers are also used for PROPERTIES, which are also ignored by beorg.

TestFlight

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:22:55 +0000

Hi, love beorg! Happy to help with the TestFlight if you can add me?

Rocket Jumble, 15 April 2023

You should be on the list. An update is being reviewed by Apple and should hopefully be available tomorrow to testers.

Puzzle Widget, 18 April 2023

Thanks!

Rocket Jumble, 18 April 2023

Is there another TestFlight update? Previous build expired

Rocket Jumble, 2 October 2023

There aren’t any current TestFlight builds. When a new one is released you should be automatically emailed.

Show item children by default

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 14:18:46 +0000

Currently I have to tap each item to show its children, is it possible to show item children by default?

Pickle Widget, 24 September 2023

I have checked the “Settings” tab and the “library.org” file, there seems to be no relevant settings

Pickle Widget, 24 September 2023

This isn’t currently possible in beorg.

Are you looking for an outline to be completely expanded when you open the outliner?
Would this be the case for all outlines, or only ones with a particular file level directive (such as #+STARTUP: showall) if you use Org mode?

3.23.0

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 14:11:14 +0000

This update includes the ability to change the app icon. See https://beorgapp.com/blog/beorg-3.23.0/ for more details.

Puzzle Widget, 27 September 2023

beorg 3.23.0 - new app icons

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0000

beorg 3.23.0 adds the ability to choose a different app icon. With this latest update you’ll have a choice of seven new app icons (hello, 🦄).

Get started by selecting the Settings tab, and tapping “Change App Icon”

You’ll now see the app icons available to you. Simply tap the one you want, and your app icon is changed!

To change the beorg app icon, you’ll need to be either a beorg Premium subscriber - or have purchased the “App Icons” extension. If you aren’t yet a subscriber or don’t have the extension, you can preview the app icons before deciding to subscribe or purchase.

Image support

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:54:05 +0000

I’ve been gradually using org mode for more and more of my notes. On my computer I have an images folder inside my work folder that I link images to. It would be great if beorg could also sync this images folder and show the images that are linked.

Happy Sprout, 15 December 2020

Thanks for adding this to the forum. Lets see how many other users would like to see this added to beorg.

How I work - home.org

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0000

This is the first in a series of posts on how I use Org mode and Emacs to keep me organised. In this first post I’m going to provide an overview of my home.org file - a sort-of central dashboard for my working day.

What’s in my home.org file

My home.org file is split into six sections:

This Week
Habits
Clients
My apps
Business
Learning

I keep the contents of each section to a minimum. This is not the place for detailed project planning or notes. Therefore, at the start of home.org, I use an in-buffer setting to open most of the subtrees so I can see everything I need at a glance.

How I work - home.org (beorg blog)

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Over on beorg.app I’ve published a blog post on how I use a home/dashboard file to help keep me organised during the working day.

Show item children by default?

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 10:24:59 +0000

Currently I have to tap each item to show its children, is it possible to show all children by default?

I found nothing related in the “Settings” tab

And the library.org file seems doesn’t have a variable to control this behaviour

https://beorgapp.com/manual/library-org/

Pickle Widget, 23 September 2023

beorg news - September 2023

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:04:43 +0000

News, plans and how to get organized using beorg

beorg newsletter - September 2023

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0000

The September 2023 beorg newsletter is out now.

What's your desktop setup like on MacOS?

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:50:39 +0000

My phone is most definitely my tertiary device. I use my 2 computers most of the time, followed by my iPad and then my iPhone last.

So, my primary method of interacting with my tasks is going to be one or both of my Macs.

I know Beorg uses orgmode as it’s storage format, and I can open my org file easily in emacs for Mac. But, there are issues with doing this:

3.22.0

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:22:58 +0000

A new beorg update has been released on 15th September. Here are detail of the changes:

Allow wider range of unicode characters in tag names
Option to use system calendar UI for viewing and editing calendar events
Remove the syncing message, and replace with the horizontal progress bar at the top of the screen
The Scheme function sync-ignore-file can be redefined in an init.org to make beorg ignore specific files or folders when syncing

“Choose folder” sync method?

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 08:50:38 +0000

Apparently, I set this up before, but now I don’t remember what folder I chose. How do you determine what folder was chosen for the choose folder method?

Now for the interesting question. What if I choose a folder on a removable device? Will BeOrg handle the possibility that the removable device is not there? I am thinking about using a USB key for sharing the data between my laptop and my iPhone. What are the gotchas?

mail links across Linux/iOS

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 04:28:43 +0000

Dear all,

like two years ago, when I still used MacOS I used beorg to sync between laptop and iPhone. Now I switched to Linux and recently rediscovered the great beorg app. Unfortunately, while mail (message:) links worked across OS (MacOS/iOS) the same does not seem to be true for Linux/iOS (very different URL scheme).

Does anybody maybe have an idea how to translate links of the following structure:

mu4e:msgid:@

More Generic Capture Template- issue with (set-current-item-headline)

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 09:19:56 +0000

So recently I asked about the possibility of creating dynamically numbered headlines in an effort to easily capture consecutive workout sets. I thought of a way to create a more generic capture template and have almost effected it but for one problem.

Just as a quick background, i have many templates that all have the same thing in their notes, but the difference is the headline is the name of the movement. So after i complete a set, i swipe, find the movement, and fill out the template and the notes and sets get added to the same subtree since the movement type is the subtree each one gets added to.

Time & Timezone crossing

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:31:23 +0000

On a trip from CA to NY last week, I think I noticed that BeOrg has a problem with changing timezones. I think even Org has this problem, but it’s more pronounced in BeOrg because of mixing the BeOrg calendar with the iOS calendar.

That is, the iOS calendars updated for the new timezone (w/ some whining), but BeOrg’s calendar didn’t update when it (probably?) should. Is that controllable by BeOrg?

exclude :LOGBOOK: and :PROPERTIES:

Sun, 23 Jul 2023 11:12:19 +0000

I use clocking a lot, which makes export very messy.

Is there a way to exclude :LOGBOOK: and :PROPERTIES: from Export (one hack I found is to remove these lines from my org file and make a copy without those lines, but it’s a bit ugly)

Best,

magnus

Jelly Pixel, 8 March 2023

(I’ve replied directly to this user via a ticket, for reference here is what I said):

There is a variable which can be set in your init.org, org-remove-property-drawers-from-render-output. By default this is turned on. I’ll look into what the issue is here that’s causing these to appear in your export.

Timestamping state changes ?

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:16:44 +0000

Org has the ability to timestamp state changes. For instance, when you mark a TODO as DONE, it adds a timestamp for when it was done. You can also mark timestamps for when you moved it to WAITING for return a phone call and such (with side notes).

Can you do this in BeOrg?

Doodle Cloud, 12 April 2019

This question has been asked before (https://appsonthemove.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/14000013128), but I am also keen to hear an update on this

Documentation of Location PROPERTY ?

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 09:30:41 +0000

Do you have documentation on the location property?

Uppercase?
Format?
Semicolons, commas,…

Doodle Cloud, 6 July 2023

beorg ignores the case of property keys
The property value is in the format ,
Latitude and longitude are comma separated

An example of a properties drawer created by beorg containing a location:

:PROPERTIES:
:LOCATION: 51.653,-3.281
:END:

Puzzle Widget, 13 July 2023

If I update the Location of the event in the Beorg calendar on my iPhone, will BeOrg later reflect that back into the Org file? Could it do the conversion from street address (on the iPhone) to lat/long (in Org LOCATION)? Do you have a preferred way of getting the Lat/Long?

Print agenda

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:26:53 +0000

Hello. Thank you so much for the app and the regular updates!

I was wondering if there are plans to implement the ability to print the day agenda and/or selected tasks this year? The last request to be able to print tasks was 3 years ago. Link to request on this forum.

Thank you in advance for your answer!

Happy Comet, 24 June 2023

Thanks for adding this to the forum. If there are any other users who would like to see this added please put your thoughts here. It will be interesting to see how many people would like to be able to print their agenda.

emoji as tags

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 12:37:31 +0000

Hello, could you please tell me if it is possible to use emoji as tags? I use beorg in conjunction with orgzly on android, where this feature is available. When viewing todo, the emoji tags I put in orgzly become only part of the title. They are not in the tag list.

Thanks in advance for the answer!

Happy Comet, 24 June 2023

I’ll have a look and see why this isn’t working on beorg. Probably I’m doing something wrong with multi-byte characters in tag names. Thanks for raising this issue.

Dropbox not syncing

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 20:48:05 +0000

When I try syncing, beorg shows the spinning wheel only, and nothing updates. I tried deleting and reinstalling, unlinking and re linking Dropbox account, stop start wifi etc, nothing helps. There is no debug window, so I can’t see where it’s hanging. My org files are small. I’ve confirmed Dropbox is updating. My wifi is fast. iPhone 12 mini with lots of space and battery and wifi signal. Any thoughts? Cheers! Jz

3.21.0

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 08:49:55 +0000

The Files tab now shows you the number of files in each folder, helping you stay on top of your digital organization game.
We’ve resolved an issue where dismissing the outliner by long-pressing the back button and selecting a non-parent ancestor didn’t always save your changes.
Let your creativity shine! We’ve added support for emojis in tag names, so you can add a personal touch to your organizing system.
Puzzle Widget, 30 June 2023

Make it possible to display multiple active timestamps for an entry in the agenda

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 20:56:30 +0000

Not sure if this belongs to Feature Request or Issues. I’ll just post it here.

In Emacs, an entry can have both a SCHEDULED/DEADLINE timestamp and multiple active timestamps. The use case would be: The task is supposed to be done before day X, but active timestamps are used to plan out exactly during which hours I’ll work on the task, and they might also be on different days.

Then both the active timestamps and the SCHEDULED/DEADLINE timestamp will be shown in the agenda. (Even the clock entries will be shown if you toggle org-agenda-log-mode, though that might be a ticket on its own.)

Date/Time being translated

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 08:51:08 +0000

I think I’m seeing that times like this:

<2022-01-07 Fri 10:00-11:00>

are being translated by Beorg to:

<2022-01-07 Fri 10:00>–<2022-01-07 Fri 11:00>

Expected?

David Masterson

Doodle Cloud, 5 January 2022

This is how date/time ranges are currently implemented. However definitely room for optimising this when the times are on the same day. I’ve made a note to take a look at this for a future update.

Puzzle Widget, 8 January 2022

One issue of this is that this is a change for the version control system – even though you didn’t make this change.

Possible to have dynamically numbered headlines?

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 15:23:07 +0000

For example, right now i have a few capture templates set up to capture the weight, reps, and RPE of certain lifts.

It looks like this:

2022-5-23- Tue

** Bench Press

***Set

Weight: (not enough)

Reps: 5

RPE: 8

***Set

Weight:

Reps:

RPE:

For this template the Headline is Set. The Subtree i’m adding to is %today%- %dayshort%. Is it possible as i add these items that Set starts at Set 1, then Set 2, for as many headlines as there at that hierarchy level?

if your tasks aren't marking as DONE...

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 14:57:47 +0000

I run into this issue from time to time, and I was typing up a support ticket when I realized what happened.

I know I marked all my scheduled tasks from yesterday as DONE in Emacs, but then they were all showing up as overdue inside of Beorg today.

The problem? I had a conflicted copy of my Todo.org file inside my Emacs folder. Dropbox had created a second “conflicted” file, and Beorg was pulling in duplicate tasks from both.

Org-Edna... I wonder...

Fri, 19 May 2023 18:39:40 +0000

Had a thought, but I’m not sure how to implement:

Org-Edna is an add-on MELPA package for Org to trigger some actions when a task is marked as DONE. For instance, you could set the TODO for doing “program testing” to NEXT when mark the “fix bug” task as DONE. It could be much more elaborate than that. I’m sure there are other similar packages that trigger on “DONE”.

My thought was, rather than implement (some of) Org-Edna in BeOrg, perhaps it would be simpler to define a “PRE-DONE” state in BeOrg that Emacs Org could trigger on when it reads an Org file and automatically change tasks with that state to “DONE” which would then trigger Org-Edna to do it’s thing. All we need is an Elisp package that could be loaded in Emacs to auto-search any Org file for the “PRE-DONE” state and change it (using proper Org commands) to “DONE”. Well, we’d also need BeOrg to recognize PRE-DONE as essentially a DONE state.

3.20.4 / 3.20.3

Thu, 04 May 2023 16:29:39 +0000

3.20.4

The location property is now synced to the calendar entry
Before attempting to sync a check is made that there is an available cellular of Wi-Fi network connection
Two new search criteria. hp matches items which have a parent with the specified headline - for example ~~hp Meetings~~ would match all items under the parent Meetings. ha matches items which have an ancestor with the specified headline - for example ~~ha Work~~ would match all items which have any ancestor item with the deadline Work.

Holiday/vacation from 13th May to 4th June

Thu, 04 May 2023 16:28:11 +0000

This post is to let you know that I will be on my first overseas holiday in many years a little later this month. I will respond to any support queries when I return - although I will be checking in occasionally to see if there is anything really urgent that could do with a response sooner.

Puzzle Widget, 4 May 2023

Priority not showing in agenda view when deadline has passed

Thu, 04 May 2023 16:26:00 +0000

If a todo item has a priority, and it’s deadline has passed, the priority tag does not show in agenda view.

Merry Button, 1 May 2023

Thanks for raising this. A good point, the current implementation replaces the priority with a symbol showing that the item is overdue - however that then loses the information as to how important the task is. Maybe the priority symbols shown could be in red if overdue so that information is still easily visible. Will be interesting to see if there are any other users with thoughts on this.

Adding id-property in a new file using templates

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:09:17 +0000

Hi all,

I am new to Beorg and using it together with Emacs and org-roam. When I enabled sub folders in Beorg a new tab popped up called “notes”. When you create a file through that tab a header is added to a file with a unique id that is compatible with org-roam, super awesome! I am now wondering how to enable such a header in a template.

What I would like:

Not all subfolders are found by search

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:44:51 +0000

My notes folder contains four levels of subfolders. I’m syncing with Working Copy. Some of my files do get recognized by beorg, some don’t. When I reinstall the app and setup synchronization in the settings everything works fine. After a while some files disappear from the agenda and search results.

I set up subfolder-syncing in my init.org with the following lines:

#+begin_src scheme
(set! sync-subfolders #t)
#+end_src

Am I missing something?

Shared files disappear, strange duplicates

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 16:38:09 +0000

I have set “Sync method” to “Choose Folder” and linked to a folder beneath “iCloud Drive” that contains, among others, a foo.org file that I am sharing with my wife (with write permissions) via iCloud sharing.

Right after sharing, she can open and modify the file in beorg but after a while the file disappers from her beorg folder. I can still open and modify the file without problems but I am not any longer sharing it with my wife. It looks as if beorg has changed the status of the file as it also disappears from my “shared by me” folder. The other funny thing is that, after a while, (my, I guess) beorg generates a “foo 2.org” file in the same folder.

beorg news - April 2023

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 12:18:56 +0000

News, plans and how to get organized using beorg

Is it possible to set the default cursor/point position in buffer?

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 08:07:59 +0000

Hi Matthew,

Please allow me to check with you if it is possible to set the default cursor/point position at the top of the buffer when we come into the Notes area.

The reason of this is because in my use case, I usually edit the Notes to record some updates for future tracing and reviewing, these text sections usually come after a timestamp like <2023-03-30 Thu 22:57>. And I always prefer keeping the latest update section at the top of the Notes area, then my Notes will be something like,

Saved search that displays all TODOs under a certain parent heading?

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 16:55:40 +0000

Hey,

My main todo org mode file is organised in the following way:

* Short-term
** TODO Task 1
** TODO Task 2
** WAIT Task 3

* Long-term
** TODO Task 1
** WAIT Task 2
** TODO Task 3

I would like to have 2 saved searches, that are able to display TODO (and any other open tasks) that fall under both the “* Short-term” and “* Long-term” parent headings, however I can’t seem to find a way to filter by the parent headings.

#+FILETAGS: and scheme search filter

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 09:23:38 +0000

hello. new beorg user here. i’ve created this scheme search filter which works, except for just one file that uses #+FILETAGS:

(or
    (member "morning" (item-all-tags item))
    (and
        (not (member "morning" (item-all-tags item)))
        (not (member "afternoon" (item-all-tags item)))
        (not (member "evening" (item-all-tags item)))
    )
)

basically this filter search for all the tasks that can be done in the morning (tag morning) OR any tasks that can be done at any time of the day (no morning, afternoon or evening tag set).

BiwaScheme - Loading other files

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 09:15:34 +0000

I love the init.org customization configuration so much! And managed mine over

GitHub,

https://github.com/jsntn/beorg-init.org

As the configuration file extends, I would like to move some of the sections from

init.org. Like I have a template (set! item-templates …) with long notes, in

this case, I want a separate configuration file - item-templates.org with that,

and from the init.org, I can load it with the BiwaScheme ’load’ function - (load

path), which I referred from https://www.biwascheme.org/doc/reference.html

Let's share init.org customizations

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:20:58 +0000

I suggest we use this topic to share the scheme code that we write in init.org to add cool stuff.

This will allow others to use it, give some new ideas, and maybe some gurus will suggest better ways to do things.

Here is what I have now:

Inserting src_calc entry and a simple table. No rocket science here, but someday I hope I will be able to write something to parse and get the calculations done, at least for src_calc.

  (define (insert-src-calc)
    (insert "src_calc{}")
    (backward-char))
  (define (insert-usual-table)
    (insert "|---------+---+---|\n| x | | |\n| x | | |\n|---------+---+---|\n| *Total* | | 0 |\n|---------+---+---|\n#+TBLFM: @>$3=vsum(@1$2..@-1$2)-vsum(@1$3..@-1$3)")
    (goto-char (- (point) 146)))

Define templates in init.org

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:57:35 +0000

Hey there, was just wondering if anyone had any insight into how I might define my capture templates in my init.org file?

I see a variable in library.org called item-templates. It does not look like the capture templates I defined via the user interface are stored in this variable, as it returns nil in the REPL. Additionally, it says that it should store a list of pairs, with the first item being the template name and the second being the template definition, but I’m not sure what the structure of the “template definition” should be.

Create iOS reminders from tasks screen

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:07:22 +0000

The Reminders integration shows all items of my shared iOS reminders shopping list and allows me to directly mark them as „done“ via a long press.

It would be awesome to be able to create reminders as well on specific lists from the task screen (e.g. a shopping list).

Capturing into an org file is not an option in this particular case as there is no way I can get my wife to use org files for a shopping list :P

Is it possible to search for entries NOT containing given tag?

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:06:20 +0000

I tag some headlines with :PROJECT:. I’d like to have two saved searches:

*Waiting for projects: *s WAIT t PROJECT
Waiting for tasks: s WAIT -t PROJECT ==> I’d like to search for everything that is not tagged as PROJECT. Is it possible?
Merry Cloud, 10 February 2019

You can’t currently exclude tags using the simple search syntax. What you can do is write a query in Scheme, for example

Problem to Pin files that are far into subdirectories or long name

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 04:26:40 +0000

There seems to have a problem to pin a file when the file path is long. I have a tree with projects and subprojects and then files into them. When I try to pin a file that is far into the subdirectories, then when I open a pinned file, beorg shows no content inside the file.

Sometimes, when I reduce the file name, then this fix the problem and the pinned file can be opened correctly.

help with template date macro

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 20:26:23 +0000

Hi. Is there a way to insert the day of the year using the macros in templates?

Banana Dash, 3 March 2023

Yes, but its not obvious!

There isn’t currently a macro, such as %year%, which returns the day of the year.

You can however use Scheme in macros. The Scheme in beorg is written in JavaScript, and the simplest way to get the day of the year is to bridge to actually write this in JavaScript.

Link subfolders

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:03:09 +0000

I’m unable to link subfolders within org documents.

The link [[file:mysubfolder]] opens the file mysubfolder.org.

As stated here: https://appsonthemove.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/14000012832

you can link files like this:

[[inbox]] - link to inbox.org

[[inbox.org]] - link to inbox.org

[[file:inbox.org]] - link to inbox.org

[[inbox::Maybe tasks]] - link to the item "Maybe tasks" in the file inbox.org

[[::Top Priority]] - link to the item "Top Priority" only for the current file

Due to the implicit .org extension in the first example I’m unable to link subfolders.

Is it possible to show time ranges in agenda

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 12:05:30 +0000

Is it possible to show time ranges in agenda, so that the star and the end time is shown?

Waffle Button, 28 August 2020

This isn’t implemented yet but is on my radar.

Puzzle Widget, 1 September 2020

Is there an option to show the end time here below the start time?

Glitter Comet, 16 February 2023

Not currently. I’ve added this as an idea to investigate.

Puzzle Widget, 16 February 2023

WebDav: Directories not deleted when in beorg when they are deleted directly in WevDav

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 11:57:34 +0000

I’ve switched to a WebDav sync method since I have more space in a WebDav directory than I have in iCloud. Things seems to be working (slower since there’s now a sync progress when I open beorg, but that’s not the problem).

I have added my WebDav directory and I did a first sync which worked great. However, I’ve decided to change my directory structure and moved some org files from directories to other directories. I then deleted some directories that I’m not using anymore and I see this is reflected in my other application, but in beorg all the directories are kept even if they are empty inside (no org file). Is this the wanted behaviour? Is there a way to make beorg update it’s directory structure automatically when a directory is deleted from another application that has access to the WebDav directory?

Sync items to Calendar - Bug with events that span multiple days

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 11:56:39 +0000

Hello,I already raised a ticket (ticket #33367), but I’m seeing this forum section regarding “Issues”, so I’m not sure if it’s better to raise a ticket or write here. Therefore, I’m writing my issue here as well and please close the ticket or remove this post if one place is better than the other!

Here is my problem regarding the sync items to calendar feature:

Events that span multiple days create an event that span the correct range, but multiple events are created. The number of event that are created are based on the number of days that the item take over. I mean, an item that goes for 3 days will have 3 calendar events that span each the 3 days that the event occurs.

x-callback-url: set subheading OR deadline+capture template

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 11:54:29 +0000

Hi,

thank you so much for the app! It’s been a really good experience so far.

One of the things I have been trying do is have a nice set up with Shortcuts.

One thing I am currently trying to get working is:

Capture template with pre-filled notes, goes to specific subheading in file
Add new todo with a given deadline date (from Shortcuts) using that capture template

One issue currently is, that with x-callback-url I read that it is not currently possible to both use a capture template and include the deadline parameter.

Regarding iCloud Sync and Advanced Data Protection…

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:59:05 +0000

If I choose iCloud as my sync method in Beorg, and I opt into Apple’s Advance Data Protection setting, will my org files be end to end encrypted? Apple documentation says it covers iCloud Drive but it was unclear if that includes app files.

Banana Dash, 26 January 2023

A great question! I don’t know the answer myself, but will be interested to see if anyone has found this out. I haven’t yet enabled ADP as I’m not sure, and haven’t looked into yet, whether I would need all of my devices on the most recent OS (my MacBook is still on Monterey for the time being).

Support for org tables

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:02:03 +0000

In the Beorg app, I would greatly appreciate the ability to:

create tables (easily insert and recognize the ‘| … | … |’ syntax as a table).
move in table content (“Enter “to move to next row in the same column, a button to move to next column just like the “Tab” on computer keyboards).
edit table content (copy/paste column-wise).

… for a start :).

A step further towards the ideal Org-friendly app!

Is there a way to contribute by programming

Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:22:20 +0000

Hello! As I see there are a lot of feature requests on this forum. Given that you’ve said that beorg generates revenue for one day per month it is a long way to implement all the worthy features you’d selected.

Maybe there is a way for volunteers to contribute to the codebase? Could be interesting experience, and bump for the feature list!

Pepper Twist, 7 June 2020

I haven’t ruled out making beorg an open source project in the future, although I’m not sure the current code base would be a great start for that. There are some other iOS apps (such as Blink https://blink.sh) which have open source licenses but also generate sufficient revenue for the developers to spend time working on them. I’m currently restricting my working hours with the children not being in school due to lockdown in the UK, hopefully I’ll have more time to think about this once they return to school / their grandparents are able to take them off our hands again when it is safe to do so!

3.20.0

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 15:52:19 +0000

New button on agenda bottom toolbar to select a saved search.
A search can now match against only items from .org files, calendar entries or reminders (e.g. src cal)

Puzzle Widget, 15 January 2023

Org file links to tasks with org-id rather than file links

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 03:25:53 +0000

**** ToDos which are not tracked by my system [0/2]

[[file:Personal.org::*Call dad for his birthday][Call dad for his birthday]]
[[id:1591BCFC-3188-4344-9BE7-E28D7704CEB4][Call dad for his birthday]]

If I view the above file in Beorg, the first link works fine, but the second link gives me this error:

Open Link

This link couldn’t be opened. It might require a specific app is installed from the App Store.

The purpose of the links is to be able to quickly find the original task to mark it DONE while having a handy short DailyPlan to focus on the tasks for today.

IOS reminders are NEXT tasks ??

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:39:19 +0000

Reminders our NEXT tasks? How is that set? I was thinking of dropping NEXT from my task type list — would that affect the display of reminders?

Doodle Cloud, 12 January 2023

beorg just chooses the first todo action state. It is purely for display and doesn’t affect how reminders are otherwise treated. If you remove NEXT then all reminders will now appear from whatever is first if your task type list, e.g. TODO.

Best way to manage contacts?

Fri, 16 Dec 2022 13:33:28 +0000

I’m looking for a way to store contact information in org. It looks like org-contacts uses a property drawer to store things like birthdays, and then %%(org-contacts-anniversaries in a file picked up by the agenda.

Is there a way to manage contacts in org documents which would be friendly with both emacs & beorg?

The most elementary feature would be having birthdays & anniversaries show up on the agenda (not necessarily a TODO). But I have other recurring events, projects, and todos I’d like see in the context of a contact’s personal info.

Convert selection into org-id link?

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:36:45 +0000

Thanks for making Beorg, I love it!

Here’s something I’d like to do when editing a file:

type something like “I like coffee”
select the word “coffee”
press a button
“coffee” is changed into “[[id:coffee][coffee]]”

I’m getting stuck at concatenating strings… I’ve been trying to do something like this:

#+begin_src scheme

;; make a function to encapsulate something with brackets (define (linkify x) (cons (cons “[[” x) “]]”)))

;; then add a button for it (set! editor-toolbar-items ‘((“back” (backward-char)) ;; more buttons here (“linkify” (region-text-set (linkify (region)) )) ))

3.7.1 experimental subfolders

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:55:48 +0000

Has anyone had any success enabling the experimental subfolders with iCloud?

I’m having trouble syncing in the app even though I have made changes in my org dir and I’m not sure if it is an issue with the feature or my unfamiliarity with iCloud syncing. I’m used to Dropbox.

One issue is that I can see my the directory “roam”, but there are no files in it.

Cherry Comet, 15 September 2020

How did you enable experimental subfolders? Does beorg allow subfolders now? I would be so happy if we could have that feature!

3.19.0

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 17:00:45 +0000

Quick actions added to the item editor
Define your own item editor quick actions in Scheme, with some new functions added to update the current viewed item
The agenda will now only look at files it knows have dates in

Puzzle Widget, 2 December 2022

For those who are curious about where these new functions are documented, I found this (https://hyp.is/FEyphHLYEe2kNCPtAGVJZA/beorgapp.com/manual/scripting/).

Cherry Juice, 3 December 2022

Thanks Tom!

Puzzle Widget, 5 December 2022

Syncthing support

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 20:16:14 +0000

Would you consider adding Syncthing support? I use it to sync all my org files between my computers.

Rocket Widget, 20 January 2021

Or maybe an easier implementation would be to be able to access local files available in the Files app: I could then use another application to sync with Syncthing

Rocket Widget, 22 January 2021

As you say the route forward is to make use of file providers in iOS, something I am hoping to get done in the next few months.

Support #+FILETAGS: options

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 20:02:51 +0000

I love the new(ish) tag inheritance features in Beorg!

One additional feature that would be useful to me is if Beorg supported my current #+FILETAGS: options in my org-mode files.

For example, some of my .org files have “#+FILETAGS: @work” at the top, so in org-mode in Emacs, every headline in that file inherits the @work tag.

I’m currently working around this with a saved search that looks for the tag or whether it’s in particular files… but it would be great if Beorg supported the FILETAGS option.

Task-search and Badge-problem

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:05:37 +0000

I want to search for tasks that are due today or overdue. From what I’ve found how logic operators work in scheme, I would have guessed that: “(or (k d 0)(k o)” should do it. But it doesn’t.

What would be the correct way to search?

When I add this to the init.org: #+begin_src scheme (set! badge-filter “k d 0”) #+end_src

no badge shows up. It works when I set it in the repl though. What am I doing wrong?

Second level outline

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 16:52:42 +0000

I have several files with todos and I’d like to add new tasks to the second outline level:

Top Header (which differs by file) ** TODO New tasks should go here

Is this possible? Templates seem to require that I name the top level header the same in every file, or have a separate template for each file.

Puzzle Spark, 4 November 2022

You can do this by using the subtree options when editing the template. For example if you added “Years” and then “Months” you would create a hierarchy similar to:

beorg news - November 2022

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:21:48 +0000

News, plans and how to get organized using beorg

beorg newsletter - November 2022

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:00:00 +0000

The November 2022 beorg newsletter is out now.

Notifications Not Working

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:07:20 +0000

beorg 3.6.2 (190)

iOS 13.5.1

Hi,

My notifications are currently not working. I have checked the Notifications tab in Settings, and Beorg notifications are enabled.

I currently have my “Timed task reminders (minutes)” set to 30, however it seems that the application is scheduling the notifications four hours too late. For example, I have a TODO reminding me of my morning run at 8:00, which mean a notification scheduled at 7:30, but the log states that it’s scheduled for “2020-06-22 11:30:00 +0000”. All event notifications are consistently four hours late on the log. Overdue tasks aren’t showing a red badge on the side either.

checklists with subitems - changing all subitems

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 02:14:37 +0000

The typical use I have in mind: a structured checklist, with say 10 top-level items where each item has many sub items. This might be “monthly” todo list. At the beginning of the month, I’ll want to uncheck all items. Or, uncheck all subitems below a specific item.

Is this possible with beorg?

Thanks.

Bubble Glow, 22 October 2022

There is an org extension for emacs called org-checklist but it would be awesome if there’s a way to do this with regular org and beorg.

getting init.org to work

Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:58:50 +0000

I’m following the beorg learning page about excluding certain files from generating todo’s. I have created a file init.org with the contents as in the example but it won’t work.

The contents of orgtodo.org is:

* TODO Orgtodo item                                                     :Foo:
- State "TODO"       from ""           [2022-10-10 Mon 21:04]
* TODO Other todo item

The contents of the init.org is:

* my settings
#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
(set! todo-exclude-files ’("orgtodo.org"))
#+END_SRC

The output of “(load ‘init)” is “true”.

Formatting requirements

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:53:46 +0000

Something you could discuss is the expectations that BeOrg has in the format of the Org files (if any).

Blank lines – I put in blank lines for readability. Will BeOrg remove them and where? Be precise.
Auto-fill – Should we fill paragraphs or let it wrap at the end of a line? I’m an old Emacs user, so I tend to turn on auto-fill.
CRLF vs NL – How does BeOrg hand EOL? If I mostly edit on a PC (CRLF), will that cause problems with BeOrg?

Support for checkbox cookies

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 21:23:25 +0000

I frequently use checkboxes and I’d love to see support for automatically updating cookies in headlines, such as [33%] or [1/3].

Beorg could update the headline cookie when checkboxes are toggled.

More details: https://orgmode.org/manual/Checkboxes.html

Glitter Ribbon, 12 August 2021

The existing checkbox support is great ✔️ Just noticed that my [9/34] cookie didn’t update when ticking them off and now it doesn’t feel like I progressed much. +1 to the request :)

Sync recurring events to iOS calendar

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 04:04:15 +0000

Recurring events do sync properly with iOS calendar. For example, this event:

<2022-09-22 Thu 15:00 +1d> meeting

will sync to the calendar on 2022-09-22, but not 9-23 or any of the following days.

Recurring events are very common (meetings, birthdays, etc), so I think this feature would be heavily used.

Pepper Star, 27 September 2022

More flexible notifications

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 20:23:15 +0000

It would be really helpful to have a far more flexible system for sending notifications. Ideally, I would be able to:

Set different notifications for different events.
Have multiple notifications for the same event.

As a practical use case, I might want to get notified two weeks before a birthday (to have time to buy a gift), but ten minutes before a meeting.

These notifications could be specified in a certain property associated with the event like:

Moving from todo.txt to Beorg

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 13:55:19 +0000

So I am here as a sort of todo.txr refugee.

ToDo.txt is a great app, but using it on an iOS devices has some challenges, mostly around file syncing. The two todo.txt apps in the iOS app store require either Dropbox or the Files app for syncing. I find that using the files app with a provider like Nextcloud will work for a few days, but eventually stops working if you don’t pop the Nextcloud app, which I almost never do. And Dropbox is just too expensive. You need to pay $9.99/month to sync more than 2 devices.

3.18.1

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 12:10:59 +0000

(Will be released w/c 22nd August 2022)

If org-log-done-transition set to #t then done state changes will be logged.
Fix for custom template UI configuration not showing correct field when used.
Fix for the beorg share extension - you can now share a URL without any accompanying text
Fix for beorg sometimes thinking a file is in conflict when it isn’t

Puzzle Widget, 19 August 2022

Next Actions agenda

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 17:02:03 +0000

Hi!

Great app, I’m loving it! I have configured a “Next Actions” agenda view in Emacs to show me just the next action for each project using the org-agenda-skip-function as described here 0. I was wondering if it would be possible to duplicate the same functionality in Beorg? In other words, to customize the agenda as described in the org-mode documentation 1. This would be helpful for anyone following David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” paradigm.

3.18.0

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 16:15:46 +0000

Customize the beorg notification sound with this new extension. If you are a beorg Premium subscriber, or purchase the Notification Sound extension, you can now choose from 19 different notification sounds. Check out the sounds on the Settings tab.
Fix for agenda not correctly showing events on Sundays.

Puzzle Widget, 2 August 2022

3.17.0

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:36:18 +0000

If you’ve enabled subfolders you can now turn off the notes tab by settings show-notes-tab to #f
When creating a new note (if you have the notes tab enabled) the title will now automatically be focused, and when you tap Done on the keyboard the notes editor will automatically be shown
Dates with a repeat and an end date will now use the end date as a termination of the repeat

How do I change the Beorg notification sound?

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:31:14 +0000

Hi there, how do I change the Beorg notification sound? Right now, it’s very quiet and imperceptible. It actually rings quite loudly and nicely on my Apple Watch (which is great), but I’m not always wearing that. And when the notifications go off and I’m not wearing my watch, then I have a problem hearing it from my phone or iPad.

I looked in Settings > Sounds and none of them seem to be the Beorg sound. So I’m wondering what I can do to change the sound for it?

highlight headline indent

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 19:30:45 +0000

Can we add something like a vertical line as the indentation highlight? Personally, I think the current indent is not clear enough to distinguish heading levels.

Cosmic Spark, 9 July 2022

I do hope to completely revamp the outliner as some point in the near future.

Puzzle Widget, 11 July 2022

It would be nice to drag and drop items and sub items capability in outliner…

Happy Moon, 28 July 2022

beorg news - July 2022

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 15:19:25 +0000

News, plans and how to get organized using beorg

beorg newsletter - July 2022

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 08:00:00 +0000

The July 2022 beorg newsletter is out now.

Anyone integrating your calendar on your emacs agenda?

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 15:34:18 +0000

This is adjacent to beorg - I love the calendar integration from the iOS calendars into the agenda view. At first I wasn’t a fan, but I’ve grown to really value it!

On your desktop emacs, does your org-agenda integrate with desktop calendars, google or icloud calendar, for example? If so, do you have a suggested package for that?

I’m currently trying to use my fork of org-mac-iCal https://github.com/jmhammond/org-mac-iCal but it’s not working as described – it pulls in correct calendar entries from 2010 but doesn’t get everything from this week…

3.16.0

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 15:31:08 +0000

Update icons used on tab bar and in some other places in beorg
You now need to long press the search button on the Tasks tab
Replace many action sheets with menus
Stop beorg updating its local database when a file hasn’t changed
Fix for subfolders not working with “Choose Folder” sync method

Puzzle Widget, 30 June 2022

Thank you for this release! BeOrg looks very modern now and I really like that I can add the date ranges for a particular task. Awesome work.

Link Abbreviations Support

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 16:08:58 +0000

Can we support custom defined link like #+link: foo bar at the beginning of a file?

The official document is at Link Abbreviations

It’s better to support custom link in* init.org* so that we can define same link as in Emacs without define it in every file.

Friendly Button, 30 June 2022

Link Abbreviations Support

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:59:30 +0000

Can we support custom defined link like

#+link: foo bar

at the beginning of a file?

The official document is at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/org/Link-Abbreviations.html

It’s better to support custom link in init.org so that we can define same link as in Emacs without define it in every file.

Friendly Button, 30 June 2022

Additional methods to create notes in the “notes” folder

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 15:43:51 +0000

I’m assuming since this is optional feature, it won’t be top priority. But as you are formulating ways to develop it further, could you possibly add a way to create new notes using url scheme; possibly with template support?

Banana Dash, 26 June 2022

I’m hoping to relatively soon turn on subfolders support by default, at that point it definitely makes sense to extend the URL scheme to support adding notes in the same way you can add items.

3.15.0

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 16:42:36 +0000

If you use Calendar Sync you can now turn off the “Overdue beorg items” that were automatically created

Subitems in the item editor now show full headline and state, with completed items being faded out

File contents are now cached in a local database which will eventually be used to speed up putting together the agenda, searches and more

Links to IDs should now work (at least on a file level)

beorg newsletter - June 2022

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:00:00 +0000

The June 2022 beorg newsletter is out now.

beorg news - June 2022

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 07:57:10 +0000

News, plans and how to get organized using beorg

Search with Chinese character can't find result

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:30:07 +0000

How to reproduce:

My org file on Mac is stored in UTF-8 format (by default).
Enter a title in inbox.org “Emacs 简介” on MAC.
Sync with icloud.
In Beorg “TODO” tab, perform search, if I search “Emacs”, it will show the entry. But, if I search “简介”, it shows nothing.

Sunny Widget, 25 April 2019

Thank you for reporting this problem, I will investigate.

Puzzle Widget, 29 April 2019

I’ve realised the issue is not the characters but the number of characters entered. beorg only performs the search is 3 or more characters are entered. This minimum length isn’t helpful for languages such as Chinese. What I’m going to do is add a setting so a user can change this. The reason for the setting is performance when searching using the UI. You’ll see this new setting in the next update.

Need help with url scheme search

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:57:02 +0000

Hi. I can’t seem to get the url scheme for search working…

For example: I tried to use “beorg://x-callback-url/search?search=drive”, expecting the link to open Beorg to search view with all items with “drive” showing.

However, the link opens to either the default (agenda) view if the app is not already running in the background. If the app was already running in the background, the link opens Beorg to the last active view. The search doesn’t happen.

Overdue Beorg items

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 09:05:24 +0000

I see you also post “Overdue Beorg items” into the Beorg iOS calendar. That’s a good idea, but I’d like to suggest this be user’s choice. Perhaps a Scheme variable to turn it on and off?

Doodle Cloud, 30 May 2022

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll include this in the next release on the Settings screen.

(I’ve been a little delayed with this next release partly down to the new date picker I’m introducing, but hopefully not too much longer now)

Ability to share a task

Thu, 26 May 2022 17:00:20 +0000

Hi. Would it be possible to add a way to share a task with a link back to it?

For example:

a)From within a task (or via swipe action) open the iOS share menu. b)Beorg automatically creates a unique ID and adds it to property drawer (Key: BeorgID, Value: [unique id])
a)I select my method of sharing via iOS share options. b)Beorg passes through task header (and notes?) and a link back to the task in Beorg based on the new unique id.

It’s nothing urgent but would be quite useful to me. Or if there’s already another way to accomplish something similar please let me know. Thank you

Show TODO state of subitems

Thu, 26 May 2022 16:55:48 +0000

I would love to see the TODO state of subitems in the item view.

Use case: I have a todo item “pack things for trip” and I added subitems for everything I have to pack. It would be great to be able to tick these off while I’m progressing. I can set the todo state of the subitem to done, but this is not reflected in the main item view where just the headline of the subitems is shown. Just a TODO or DONE in bold before the subitem title would be sufficient for me :) And of course I would be willing to pay for this feature.

Set template properties in the template management UI

Fri, 06 May 2022 13:37:27 +0000

Is it possible to add properties to a template so that when creating an item with that template, these properties appear automatically, rather than having to add manually? Thanks!

Rocket Dash, 5 May 2022

When creating the template add the properties to the notes as an Org mode property drawer. In the below example the property effort will be added to the item created from the template with a default value of 0:

Should Beorg sync its files into a shared directory?

Tue, 03 May 2022 00:02:46 +0000

Hi all,

My workflow would benefit from Beorg syncing its files (via WebDAV, in my case) into a directory that was visible to other apps on my system. One use case where this would help is when using a separate text editing application like 1Writer to edit text in my org tree.

Would anybody else benefit from this? Is there another way to solve this problem? I’ve looked into Mobius Sync a bit, but it has an issue that prevents me from using it.

beorg news - April 2022

Fri, 29 Apr 2022 15:04:32 +0000

News, plans and how to get organized using beorg

beorg newsletter - April 2022

Fri, 29 Apr 2022 08:00:00 +0000

The April 2022 beorg newsletter is out now.

The new calendar sync option & location

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 21:20:10 +0000

I like the new calendar sync option, but it needs to set location as well. That would allow the calendar to provide an interface between Org -> BeOrg -> Maps. I’d suggest creating an Org Property (say org-beorg-addr[1234]) that can be put into a Task by an Org function that you create (we add it to our emacs.el) that takes input of a properly formatted address and stores it in the Org Property that Beorg could then pick up and add to the iOS calendar. The standard iOS Calendar program could then push the address to Maps which could then plot how you get to your meeting. Using you Org function as a base, we could later create other functions to (say) get the address out of various contact databases.

Wrong message on the button

Sun, 10 Apr 2022 11:21:51 +0000

For the tasks with complex repeat schedules the button label and message about next repeat are wrong. In this case should be 2-3 days instead of 23.

Pepper Twist, 4 April 2022

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I will look to fix in next update.

Puzzle Widget, 10 April 2022

Time blocking using BeOrg

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 12:16:19 +0000

In the recent update BeOrg added the feature to sync task with the calendar. Is there any plans to add start and end time for the task so that we can use it for time blocking and planning?

Peach Juice, 24 March 2022

That’s a good idea. Even though beorg doesn’t currently support editing a time range it does understand them so it would be a straight forward change to the calendar entry. I’ll take a look into this relatively soon as a nice simple enhancement.

Beorg not remembering "Saved Search" on startup

Fri, 18 Mar 2022 23:34:47 +0000

Hey,

I have the following code in my init.org file, in order for the “Todo” tab to to load on start:

(set! ui-start-tab "todo")

This works as intended, however up until a few weeks ago (possibly the update before last?) when I load Beorg after fully closing it, it defaults to the “Show All” filter, and no longer loads the last viewed Search filter.

It’s only a small annoyance, but I wondered if this change was intentional or not?

BeOrg Scheme Hooks

Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:03:58 +0000

Question – have you considered adding Scheme “hooks” (a la Emacs) to BeOrg for key functions (TBD)? If the hook is empty, then BeOrg just does the usual. Examples:

A pre-task-read hook that gets a task after BeOrg reads it in and breaks it up into a list before processing it. Functions could modify the list before BeOrg works on it.
A post-task-read hook to allow BeOrg to get help on what to do with the task.

3.14.1

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 13:19:18 +0000

This release contains a fix for the Tasks tab not remembering the last used search between app launches.

Puzzle Widget, 14 March 2022

3.14.0

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:36:48 +0000

Streamline task creation with an update to templates. You can now select what information is visible for a template - for example just show headline and notes for your note taking template.

Also new in templates - choose whether to add new items to the start or end of a file/subtree.

Additionally in this release:

Support for showing Org habit tasks in the agenda. Support for editing habits, tracking habits and reporting to come in a future update.

Repeated tasks / set property :LAST_REPEAT: ?

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 15:50:36 +0000

In Emacs, when I check off a repeated task,

the state change is logged in the LOGBOOK
the PROPERTIES section will update a property named :LAST_REPEAT:

Beorg seems to log the state change beneath :PROPERTIES: section, above :LOGBOOK:, plus it won’t update the property :LAST_REPEAT:

Is there a setting that will make it behave like Emacs / Org-Mode?

Rocket Ribbon, 14 November 2020

I’ve noticed the same thing, and it’s pretty frustrating as I log lots of habits, and none of them go into the logbook :(

beorg news - February 2022

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:02:22 +0000

News, plans and how to get organized using beorg

Prepend TODO task to the top when using template

Mon, 21 Feb 2022 16:02:19 +0000

Hi there. Thanks so much for releasing a great app - Beorg has made it possible for me to have access to my orgmode files when I’m away from my computer.

I have 2 questions:

Firstly, I have a couple of templates set up in Beorg, that file my TODOs under specific headings. It’s all working fine but I would like to know how to make Beorg create them at the top of the heading list, as opposed to the bottom. In orgmode, I would use “:prepend t” in my emacs file, but I’m not sure what code to use to achieve this in Beorg. This is visually what I mean:

Spacing in iOS widget

Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:20:36 +0000

I’m really enjoying being able to see Org Agenda tasks on my iPhone thanks to Beorg. However, I can’t quite bring myself to use the widgets, because the spacing above the task list is (in my opinion) too narrow. I think the top margin should be the same size as the bottom margin of the header (which shows the current date).

I know that this must seem like a petty complaint (about an otherwise amazing piece of software), but is there any chance this could be addressed? It would make me (and hopefully others) more inclined to make full use of the possibilities of this app.

how to spark a "virtuous cycle" of rapid beorg development

Sat, 12 Feb 2022 16:11:17 +0000

I would be happy to pay more to promote beorg development – even more so to the degree that I could understand what size contribution would have what impact. Maybe other users feel similarly? I’m curious:

Does Apple tell you who pays you what?
How many users are there, paying and unpaying?
What fraction of users have paid how much?
Would it make sense for users to pledge payments as a way to up-vote hypothetical specific new features?

Calendar sync can’t create calendar

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 08:58:49 +0000

Syncthing 3.13.0 (250) / iOS 15.3

I turned on the new Calendar sync feature but nothing happened. I have this in my logs:

04:12:03
Unable to create beorg calendar: Error
Domain=EKErrorDomain Code=17 "That account
does not allow calendars to be added or
removed."
UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=That
account does not allow calendars to be added or
removed.}

I suspect this is because I have a number of accounts and whatever account Beorg defaults to (the first?) won’t let it create a new one.

Allow syncing with 2 dropbox directories - work and home

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:14:28 +0000

Hi,

I would love the ability to keep my work files separate from my home tasks/todos. I woudl prefer if my home files never touched my work laptop.

Is there any way to do this?

Ideally we would have one directory for work files and one dir for home files.

I would pay $20 for this feature alone as it means I can finally go back to using this app for all todos.

3.13.0

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 08:51:40 +0000

Turn on “Sync items to Calendar” from the Settings tab to enable one-way syncing from beorg to your calendar. When this is enabled beorg will attempt to create a new iCloud calendar and create events for items that appear in the beorg agenda. This is one-way only so any changes made to the created calendar events will be overwritten or deleted. The calendar that beorg creates should be considered read only. If you find that this feature isn’t useful to you then once disabled simply delete the calendar beorg created. You should have this feature enabled on only one device otherwise you’ll find multiple calendars are created.

Using beorg to reduce food waste

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 08:00:00 +0000

On occasion I’ve been forced to throw away food I’ve bought due to it being past it’s use-by date. I’ve tried a number of apps to help with this problem but not found any which stuck. I thought I should try using beorg, and its so far working well.

My process:

Shopping gets delivered on Sunday mornings.
I unpack everything and lay it out on my kitchen table.
As I put everything into cupboards or the fridge I create new items in beorg for food which has a use-by or best before date that I need to take note of.

To speed up adding items I created a quick capture template and a saved search.

Support other logging options

Sun, 23 Jan 2022 19:32:21 +0000

#+title: Beorg Init
* Needs a heading?
#+begin_src scheme
;; set! can only do one at a time
(set! org-log-done #f)
(set! org-log-into-drawer "LOGBOOK")

;; ;; these are missing from beorg
;; (set! org-log-redeadline 'time)
;; (set! org-log-reschedule 'time)
;; (set! org-log-refile 'time)
;; ;; I don't think this is a big concern since C-RET to add TODO's of the same state isn't really used on mobile
;; (set! org-treat-insert-todo-heading-as-state-change t)
#+end_src

It would be nice to log redeadline, reschedule, and refile into the LOGBOOK like state changes. The ’time option should be fairly simple to implement, it just adds a line to the drawer saying what happened, the old date that was changed, and when the change was made, e.g.:

Allow remote locations in iOS Files "Choose a folder" backend

Sun, 23 Jan 2022 19:06:23 +0000

I tried switching to the Nextcloud Files location using the “Choose a folder” method, but it was disabled.

With the Files app being a unified place for cloud storage providers to expose files on iOS nowadays, it might make your life somewhat simpler to enable users to choose remote locations and centralize new development on that backend rather than having to maintain your own WebDAV, Dropbox, and Box backends, etc.

Shortcut to directly open a headline

Sun, 23 Jan 2022 16:23:18 +0000

Hello!

One big part of my org-mode workflow is having a headline with the current date in a “daily notes” file that I use for journaling for the current day, etc. One nice feature I’d like to have is the ability to be able to directly open a headline corresponding to today’s date (or whatever arbitrary headline text; either creating the headline if it doesn’t exist or opening it directly if it does) programmatically (i.e. via the Shortcuts app with a x-callback url or something like that).

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 08:00:00 +0000

One of my resolutions for 2022 is to be a better communicator. I’m kicking things off with the launch of a monthly beorg newsletter.

Read/subscribe to the beorg newsletter

If you aren’t a fan of email newsletters I’ll announce each edition via Twitter and you can read online.

beorg news

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 15:14:08 +0000

News, plans and how to get organized using beorg

beorg newsletter - January 2022

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 08:00:00 +0000

The January 2022 beorg newsletter is out now.

Plain timestamp repeater not modified when present in headline

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:34:54 +0000

Given the following task:

* TODO Brush teeth <2022-01-12 Wed 08:00 ++1d>

Beorg, upon marking this item done, adds a new plain timestamp as the first line of the entry, rather than modifying the timestamp in the headline as org-mode does.

Biscuit Pebble, 12 January 2022

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I haven’t covered this case yet where the timestamp appears in the headline rather than the planning line below. I’ll look to see how I could cover this but may need to wait until a planned (although not scheduled) rewrite of the parsing/writing of org files in Swift.

Scheme Search that allows grouping and/or sorting?

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 20:45:11 +0000

Hey

Happy Widget, 7 January 2022

Well that was not the text I had entered…

I am hoping to get some input on using scheme search in the TODO tab.

I can use a single composition like this: (and (string=? (item-state item) “PROJECT”) (not (member “Active” (item-tags item)))) to successfully filter. That will display the list grouped by file and sorted by location in the file by default.

I’d like to be able to reproduce functionality like the group and sort flags from the simple search in order to better display the results of these more complex searches. Is that possible? Do I just need to dig further into scheme-fu?

Sub item tasks

Fri, 07 Jan 2022 01:18:32 +0000

Would like to be able to see sub item task status, priority at a glance without having to look at each one individually.

Rocket Glow, 2 September 2020

Would like to be able to update sub tasks status with swipe.

Rocket Glow, 6 January 2022

Would like to be able to navigate from a subtask to its parent task directly.

Happy Widget, 7 January 2022

Tha would be a great option!

Links in titles of TODO items

Thu, 06 Jan 2022 05:29:58 +0000

I often end up putting links in the titles of my todo items. Is it possible for beorg to render an actionable link if it’s in the title?

Peach Comet, 4 December 2018

So that beorg can recognise links in the titles of todo items surround by [[ and ]]. For example [[https://beorgapp.com]].

You can also provide a description, for example [[[https://beorgapp.com]Link to the beorg website]].

Coming soon the next version of beorg you will be able to better link to other files in beorg. Here are some examples:

Task Management Feature

Wed, 05 Jan 2022 22:39:15 +0000

Have you ever created a task and then realized that it was really a sub task of another task/project? Would like a way to link existing tasks to one another in a hierarchy using drag and drop or some other way.

Rocket Glow, 3 February 2021

You can do this in the file view. Sub-Task can be moved “up” to the same level as its parent, moved to another task and then moved “down” to become a sub-task of a new parent.

Special Diary Entries

Wed, 05 Jan 2022 13:13:05 +0000

Dear Beorg developer,

I’ve been using Beorg for a few months now and it’s been a great experience so far. There is only one feature missing to make it perfectly suit my needs. Are there any plans to add support for Special Diary Entries (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Special-Diary-Entries.html#Special-Diary-Entries)? I use sexp entries to track payment dates and birthdays.

Keep up the awesome work!

Banana Giggle, 13 August 2019

Thank you for the suggestion. I’ve made a note to look at this for a future release.

Scheme in widget custom search?

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:38:25 +0000

Hi, Does the custom search for the home screen widget accept scheme commands? I’ve tried adding (string=? (item-state item) “TODO”), but the widget never updates. Not sure if I am doing something wrong…or if this feature hasn’t been added yet. Thanks for a great app, by the way!

Clever Fizz, 4 January 2022

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I have fixed this in the beorg code, and should work in the next beorg update.

Copy Calendar Events

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 14:21:26 +0000

It would be really helpful if I could copy a calendar event to create a new item that I can save in a file. My calendar is pretty much my only way that my work computer provides for keeping track of tasks, but the problem is that if I don’t get something done on that day, the task just slips away into the past. It would be hugely helpful if I could hit a button in the calendar view, and copy over all the information in the calendar event to a new org mode todo item, without editing the underlying calendar item.

Properties and capture templates

Sun, 26 Dec 2021 18:19:11 +0000

The feature to automatically populate the properties drawer based on inheritance is great. But it seems that it does not work with capture templates. The properties are not populated during capture, and are only visible when editing the headline after capture is complete.

Pickle Pebble, 26 December 2021

Agenda not loading on WatchOS

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:06:47 +0000

I recently bought a series 7 apple watch and was excited to see beorg supports it. However, when I open the app on the watch, no items show up. Instead there is some icon suggesting download perhaps? (Screenshot attached.) I’m on WatchOS 8.1.1 and syncing my org files using Dropbox. (Perhaps only iCloud syncing is supported?)

Glitter Worry, 12 December 2021

Try the following:

Open beorg on your phone first

3.12.0

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 06:38:33 +0000

This update fixes a problem which affected Dropbox sync where there were more than ~100 items in the Dropbox org folder. If you continue to experience any Dropbox sync issues after installing this update please let me know.

Also in this update is the introduction of new + buttons on the Agenda and Tasks tabs. These allow you to more quickly add tasks to specific days/files.

Puzzle Widget, 22 November 2021

Hey Mathew, thank you for fixing that issue. The timer still is not working in a good with iphone and dropbox as sync mode. The timer vanishes sometimes after some time and as i have stated in the ticket #33220 after some time the timer can only be stopped after restarting the app.

How can I sync data from WebDAV

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:17:09 +0000

I have built a WebDAV server by using NAS, And I had configured the WebDAV, And it showed the following message. I had checked my username, password, and WebDAV, and their all worked. What should I do to resolve this problem

Rocket Fizz, 7 December 2021

If you are either able to send me (via a ticket/email) a screenshot of how you’ve configured WebDAV on the Settings tab - or what look like the relevant parts of the debug log (see https://beorg.app/support/debug/) I’ll take a look.

beorg 3.11.3

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:23:55 +0000

beorg 3.11 had a bug which stopped notifications and the app badge working for many people. This latest release should fix that bug. If you do notice any problems with notifications, or the app badge, please let me know.

Puzzle Widget, 1 November 2021

My dropbox is not able to sync since 3.11.3 (242). I have opened a ticket. Please check this out.

Rocket Jack, 9 November 2021

The first thing I would try is to unlink Dropbox (Settings tab, then tap Unlink Account) and link again. If that doesn’t work please add the beorg debug log to your ticket (https://beorg.app/support/debug/).

beorg 3.11.0

Sun, 31 Oct 2021 06:27:37 +0000

You can now add a custom search to a widget. Tapping the widget will take you straight to that search in beorg.

Also in this update:

When bulk editing items there is now a select all option.
Fix for parsing indented logbook drawers.
If not syncing make sure that the agenda and notifications still get updated
Fix for folder sync messing things up when there are subdirectories
Fix for manual sync hook not being run

iOS widget stopped showing due/overdue tasks

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:27:33 +0000

Within the past 3-4 weeks, the widget stopped showing my due/overdue tasks. It has been working flawlessly for months and then I got a new phone, transferred my apps and the widget isn’t working anymore. The app is completely fine but the widget does not show calendar or tasks anymore.

Pippin Pudding, 27 October 2021

Please see https://appsonthemove.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/14000018614/page/last#post-14000041237 for the latest on this (I’m still working on resolving this issue but hope to have done so soon).

beorg 3.11.0

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +0000

beorg 3.11 upgrades the beorg widget allowing you to set a custom search and title.

To get started:

Long press a beorg widget on your iPhone/iPad home screen and select Edit “beorg”.
Turn on Custom Search
You’ll see the Show Calendar Events and Show Reminders options swapped for Title and Search
Specify the title you’d like to see appear on your widget
Provide the search
In order to get beorg to prepare the necessary data for the widget you’ll now need to start the beorg app. Once you’ve done this once then if beorg updates in the background then your widget will also be refreshed. (It is up to iOS/iPadOS how often this happens).

Files disappear from beorg list

Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:58:47 +0000

Hi.

I currently sync beorg using the “Choose folder” option, and selecting a specific folder within iCloud. It’s worth noting that I also edit files in this folder via emacs on both Mac and Windows.

I’ve noticed that occasionally when I open beorg, some of the files will be missing from the list under the files tab. The only way I can figure out to get them showing again is to open the iOS files app, navigate to the folder and wait for the iCloud download icon (in the top right corner of the thumbnail) to then download the file. Now when I re-open beorg the file appears again.

Anyone else getting strange new drawers created by beorg?

Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:31:22 +0000

Sometimes when I mark a repeating task as DONE, the log entry goes into a strange new drawer instead of the LOGBOOK drawer. The name of the new drawer is quite random.

Here is a video showing the issue:

https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApusOOAzSdYlhLt49fNXDL6CDngpuA?e=IZpQX9

Pickle Jack, 13 September 2021

Sorry to hear this issue has returned for you after the reinstall. I am planning to release an update to beorg which may fix this fairly soon. If you would like to help to beta test let me know.

beorg creates strange new drawer

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 02:36:21 +0000

Sometimes when I mark a repeating task as DONE, beorg would put the log entry into a strange new drawer (drawer name seems to be random) instead of the LOGBOOK drawer.

Here is a video that shows the issue.

https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApusOOAzSdYlhLt49fNXDL6CDngpuA?e=IZpQX9

is anyone else getting this? you might need to check your org files as the issue is not the easiest to spot.

Pickle Jack, 13 September 2021

I have recently fixed a bug in beorg (although not yet released) regarding drawers being indented with spaces not properly parsed by beorg. Do you also use Emacs with logbook drawers which are indented?

beorg 3.10.4

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 21:13:47 +0000

You can now turn off automatic sync to stop syncing whenever you modify something in beorg. beorg will still sync when backgrounded however if you use a non-iCloud sync method this can speed up using beorg if you are modifying lots of items one after another. See the Settings tab in beorg in the sync section to turn this off.

If you use WebDAV and were seeing some percent encodings in filenames you should find these are now gone.

Timestamps with both repeater and special warning period not understood as timestamps

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:08:17 +0000

When you have an item with a DEADLINE that includes both a repeater and a special warning period, such as DEADLINE: <2018-12-31 Mon 09:00 +1w -1d>, it seems to not be detected as a timestamp. Such items will not appear in the agenda view at all, and will appear in the TODO view, when you filter by “No Dates”.

Sunny Moon, 31 December 2018

Apparently repeater also doe not work for mr. the item is recognized but does not repeat…

Notification for active clock

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 11:32:09 +0000

I’ve been using the clocking feature in beorg more recently and something I run into often is forgetting I left a clock running. Would it be possible to have a notification active while a clock is running and have quick actions to pause or stop it?

Waffle Glow, 26 August 2021

That does sound like it would be a useful feature. I’ve added that to my list of possible future enhancements. Thanks!

after-manual-sync-hook not triggered by manual sync

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 16:38:59 +0000

Hi there! I have set after-manual-sync-hook to a function that doesn’t seem to be getting called:

  (set! after-manual-sync-hook
    (lambda ()
      (alert "Running hook" "ok")
      (log-debug "Sync complete.  Opening Working Copy.")))

Having set this hook in init.org, I don’t see any alert or log entry when pressing the sync button on any of the tabs.

FYI, evaluating this expression in the REPL works and runs the expected actions:

(after-manual-sync-hook)

Has this functionality been removed, or renamed?

can't get capture URL Scheme to work with templates via siri shortcuts

Wed, 04 Aug 2021 06:12:49 +0000

I can’t see how to add to the previous topic, so here’s a duplicate.

I have the same problem as the OP. Here’s a screenshot.

Jelly Zest, 18 July 2019

Here’s the actual message. Not sure if the dash is there because it’s a line break or part of the message.

The operation couldn't be completed. (InterchangeCall-backErrorDomain error 0.)

Jelly Zest, 19 July 2019

Was that the one posted by ‘Zeltak Brisbane’?

How can I recreate the “With Dates” default filter?

Sun, 25 Jul 2021 03:09:23 +0000

Hi. I have a very similar question to this thread, but in my case I would like the schema for the “With Dates” filter, so I can manually add it to my beorg custom search.

Many thanks, Tom

Bubble Pixel, 25 July 2021

iOS widget

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:07:36 +0000

I got very excited to see there is a beorg widget and I can have my top tasks displayed on the home screen … but it only seems to display tasks with due dates set against them?

It negates a GTD workflow as you need to start dicking around with dates on tasks as their priorities shift, why not just let me set the priority to a task and have that be the determining factor as to which ones filter to the top?

Support for Google Drive

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 01:12:51 +0000

Hi: I would love if Google Drive is added as an option for cloud sync. I tried iCloud but does not sync well on Windows and I use Google Drive only as my cloud storage.

Plum Jumble, 9 May 2019

Thanks for your feature request. I don’t get too many requests for Google Drive support at the moment. Hopefully if I continue to grow the number of beorg users (and users who purchase extensions, etc) then it will become feasible to look at providing this support.

Sync to multiple targets/accounts

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 02:13:06 +0000

It would be great to manage different profiles or accounts from the same device. One use case for this could be work and personal accounts; another could be individual and shared accounts. The sync targets could be using the same synchronization mechanism, or different ones.

Clever Worry, 8 June 2021

beorg 3.10.2

Fri, 21 May 2021 10:43:00 +0000

This update fixes the following issues:

Adding subitems to an item created from a template now works as expected
beorg no longer adds leading zeros to clock time in the logbook drawer
Warning period parsed so items show in agenda (the warning period however is not yet editable or applied in the agenda)

Puzzle Widget, 21 May 2021

Badge after Notification

Tue, 18 May 2021 12:19:40 +0000

I get notifications for timed tasks on time, as expected, but the icon doesn’t display a a counter until after the app is opened. This behaviour is the same on my iPhone & iPad.

iPad: beorg 3.10.1(227), iPadOS 14.5.1

iPhone: beorg 3.10.1(227), iOS14.5.1

Is this expected behaviour?

Pepper Star, 8 May 2021

beorg doesn’t have a serverside component so can’t update the counter unless it is run. beorg does request that iOS run it in the background to refresh tasks and update the counter, but whilst this may happen several times in a day there will still be a delay between a task becoming due/overdue and the badge updating. The message you receive from beorg is called a local notification and no beorg code runs when you see this appear on your screen.

Set specific Template for quick capture

Tue, 18 May 2021 11:48:17 +0000

can Beorg’s quick Capture be set to a specific Template?

Tango Ribbon, 10 May 2021

This isn’t currently possible. Ideally I’d like to completely rewrite the quick capture as currently quite limited.

Puzzle Widget, 28 March 2023

Can't display tables unless we can select a monospaced font.

Tue, 18 May 2021 11:47:28 +0000

I have a bunch or org tables in my Dropbox. They display fine in Emacs org, but Beorg does not align them correctly. Is there any way to make it use a monospaced font so these would work correctly?

Glitter Dash, 12 May 2021

Is this in the outliner (i.e. when you tap a file on the Files tab)? If you could supply a screenshot that would be great.

If you export an item/file or view an item in the item editor you should see the tables rendered correctly.

Creating new tasks from templates messes up when creating subtasks

Thu, 13 May 2021 02:19:28 +0000

I’ve created a template to create a new item/task under a top-level heading. From the new item template screen, I add sub items and they appear correctly in the new task window. However when I tap Done and go back into the file/task, it has created the sub items at the same level as the new task I created.

Pepper Button, 30 August 2020

Could you post a screenshot(s) showing your template?

How can I recreate the “no dates” default filter?

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:52:32 +0000

I don’t want ALL of the default searches, but I’m having trouble recreating the “no dates” search as a custom search. Is there something simple I’m missing?

Bubble Pebble, 27 April 2021

It’s not possible to do this using the “simple” search syntax, you need to enter a Scheme expression. The following should work (you can type this directly into the search bar and then add as a saved search:

Template toolbar buttons disappeared

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 13:39:43 +0000

I haven’t made any customizations in my init other than to change the badge, but this morning all but 3 buttons have disappeared from my template keyboard toolbar. All of the %% keyword entry buttons are gone.

This happen to anyone else? What can I do to get them back?

Bubble Pebble, 23 April 2021

Just in case anyone else is looking at this topic, the user emailed me to say they’ve sorted out the issue.

Pinned files - task list

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 13:35:49 +0000

It would be good if pinned files would show up first on the task list.

Waffle Wonder, 23 April 2021

Thanks for the suggestion, it certainly makes sense. I’ve added this for consideration for a future update.

Puzzle Widget, 28 April 2021

searching emoji among headlines

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 23:15:50 +0000

Hi!!! It’s been a long time since I requested a feature :)

Hope you’ve been well and I am always in awe of your constant work in this project and appreciate your time and effort!

I’ve been using a lot of emojis in headlines to make my agenda look cute and interesting and found out that some emojis can be searched while others cannot.

I was wondering if you could address this issue :)

beorg 3.9.0

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 17:10:05 +0000

New in this release:

Group Tasks tab search results by state, priority, file and tags.
Specify how Tasks tab search results should be sorted.

Bugs fixed:

Quote search tokens which contain spaces.
A bug which was causing slow typing on external keyboards when using the outliner has been squashed.
Stop beorg crashing if it has an issue cleaning up links from a headline.
Item notes sent to Apple Watch are now truncated to prevent issues with too much data being sent.

beorg 3.10.1

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:36:42 +0000

This release fixes an annoying issue where checklists weren’t saving correctly, makes things better for uses on small screen devices when picking dates and adds a new template macro for those of you who like using week numbers.

Week number macro for use in templates
Fixed for beorg not saving changes to checklists
Date picker now uses wheels on smaller screen sizes

Puzzle Widget, 13 April 2021

Can I edit the "default" capture template (when I share webpage from Safari) as part of "manage templates"?

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 03:41:36 +0000

Specifically, I want to use the “Add to subtree” feature.

Thanks for BeOrg!

Sunny Wonder, 17 July 2019

This isn’t currently supported. The Share extension has limited access to your beorg files and doesn’t actually save directly to a file but creates a temporary file which then gets merged the next time beorg starts (potentially in the background when it refreshes data).

You are best looking at creating a Shortcut that uses the beorg URL scheme. There are a number of learning articles on the beorg website showing examples of these https://beorg.app/learning/.

Prepended newline added to notes when using templates

Sat, 03 Apr 2021 16:22:24 +0000

An extra newline is prepended when using a template to add an item with notes. This does not happen when adding an item manually. I tried this but no change:

(set! beorg-add-newline-between-headlines #t)

Actual:

Item

NOTES

Expected:

Item

NOTES

Noodle Button, 3 April 2021

Support for week number in templates

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 17:00:56 +0000

Hi.

Thanks for a great app!

I just started using templates and wonder if it is possible to add support for week numbers in the subtree specification. Something like %week%.

Thanks, Jacob

Noodle Button, 31 January 2021

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve added this to my list of potential future features.

Potentially this is something that could be added by someone skilled in Scheme/JavaScript as you can also use Scheme macros, for example %(+ 3 2)%. Unfortunately the Scheme date-week-number function isn’t implemented in the Scheme used by beorg which would have made this really easy…

Pick file location

Sun, 28 Mar 2021 12:49:30 +0000

Please allow to pick location where files are stored in Files.app

I use ShelFish to perform synchronization over ssh. The Org mode files from other computers are available in Files.app (Location “Secure ShellFish”, then name of the synchronization and then the Unix file hierarchy.

Pippin Star, 19 April 2020

I’ve also experimented with Secure ShellFish - a great way to access remote files. This is something I want to add to beorg, and have been promising for a while - no ETA yet (particularly with the current lock down and two small children making it more difficult to get everything done I want to) but will be next big feature I tackle.

Repeat buttons off screen when creating new task

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:53:47 +0000

Since quite recently (probably due to an iOS update, don’t recall when I first saw it) it’s not possible to set repeats when scheduling a task because the buttons in the popup are off the bottom of the screen (and the popup is unscrollable!).

This is experienced on iPhone SE (modern / currently available version, same size as iPhone 6/7/8 etc.), and might not occur on devices with larger displays I guess.

Choose Folder Sync Renaming My .txt File

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 08:46:54 +0000

Sorry to be a PITA with a second post in this forum category.

Now that I have my .txt file syncing through my desired folder location under the “Choose Folder” method, it appears that when I edit the file in beorg, it’s renaming the file by appending a “(1)” at the end. In my case, it’s renaming my “todo.txt” to “todo(1).txt”.

I tested by copying and pasting the same file in to my beorg iCloud folder, and the name-change is not happening in there, it just seems to be when I have the “Choose Folder” method selected.

Logseq compatbility

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:01:28 +0000

Hey,

I’m new to beorg and this forum. Please excuse if my question is trivial.

Logseq is a pretty nice open-source tool for personal knowledge management with back-linking and org-mode support (handles Todos, Deadline, Schedules).

I’m able to sync beorg and Logseq (local verson), which is very nice. But beorgs date-stamps for todos (the one that can be automatically added or via the “Set date” functionality) are not compatible with Logseq. They would have to adhere to a scheme like:

Timestamp format <... 08:00-11:00> modified by beorg

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:11:02 +0000

Beorg changes all of my timestamps with the format <2021-03-10 Wed 8:00-11:00> to the format <2021-03-10 Wed 08:00>–<2021-03-10 Wed 11:00> after a short amount of time.

This is a big problem for me because the org-timeline package on emacs doesn’t support this format.

Is this a bug or is it a feature? Can I disable this?

Doodle Wonder, 10 March 2021

Somehow it doesn’t seem to do it consistently.

I created two items (in the same file) with that timestamp format, saved and synced after creating each item, and the one I created after got the new format after the first one.

emacs org send item to iphone reminder

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:13:31 +0000

i use org mode of emacs in pc . i want emacs schedule item sync iphone reminder app.

but sync beorgapp . not send iphone reminder app. which way sync to reminder app.

Sunny Zest, 11 March 2021

Currently syncing Org mode tasks to reminders isn’t a feature of beorg. This is something which has been suggested in the past and still a potential future feature.

Puzzle Widget, 11 March 2021

Syncing beorg with a git repo managed by Working Copy

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:00:00 +0000

beorg has many different ways to sync your files. Choose folder was introduced in beorg 3.10 and allows you to chose a folder from iCloud, local storage or an app which acts as a file provider. In this tutorial we’ll get beorg to use a git repository via Working Copy.

This tutorial assumes that you’ve got Working Copy and beorg already installed.

The first step is to make sure that Working Copy is available as a file provider. Start the Files app on your iOS device and make sure you have the Browse tab selected and you’re on the first screen. Use the top-right pull-down menu and select Edit. If you see a much longer menu you probably need to press the back button a few times to return to the root Browse screen.

Sync could not be completed error

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:02:27 +0000

Hi.

Running the newly released beorg 3.10.0, I’m getting “Sync could not be completed” error message when trying to sync.

It’s occurring when I use the “choose folder” sync method (to iCloud) AND have “.txt” file extension on.

If I delete the “.txt” file extension then the error message does not occur, and syncing works.

Hope this can be resolved as I work with .txt format for my org mode files.

Support for 'delay the display' feature

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 20:19:15 +0000

If you want to delay the display of this task in the agenda, use ‘SCHEDULED: <2004-12-25 Sat -2d>’: the task is still scheduled on the 25th but will appear two days later. In case the task contains a repeater, the delay is considered to affect all occurrences; if you want the delay to only affect the first scheduled occurrence of the task, use ‘--2d’ instead. See org-scheduled-delay-days and org-agenda-skip-scheduled-delay-if-deadline for details on how to control this globally or per agenda.

I noticed that beorg has the show up feature, maybe it’s the same feature ? The ‘-2d’ is supported by emacs already.

beorg 3.10.0

Thu, 04 Mar 2021 08:45:53 +0000

You can now sync beorg with a folder from another app - great if you want to use your git client app or sync service which isn’t directly supported by beorg. Please note that not all apps which appear in the document picker allow you to choose a folder for sharing with another app. beorg can’t currently sync individual files - only a single folder.

Also in this release:

Improvements to the Apple Watch agenda sync

beorg 3.10.0

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:00:00 +0000

This latest update to beorg gives you a new way to sync your org files. You can now tell beorg to sync using a folder provided by another app. For example you can point beorg at a git repository managed by Working Copy or a folder on a remote server using Secure ShellFish.

To get started go to the Settings tab in beorg and tap the Sync method option. Pick Choose Folder and then go back to the previous screen. You can now tap Link Folder and select a folder from iCloud, local storage on your iPhone/iPad or an app which has a file provider extension.

Support for file access through Files app

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:41:12 +0000

Subject line says it, really. This is available only on iOS 11 or higher. However, it would have the advantage that Beorg could then use every sync service that has a Files integration (such as OneDrive, Google Drive, Amazon Drive, Boxcryptor) and that it’s by now kind of the standard way to access files under iOS.

Cherry Fizz, 20 January 2021

I’ve long wanted to get this implemented - and quite a few users have requested. I need the bite the bullet and get started :) Saying that I don’t yet have an ETA for this - with schools closed in the UK for the foreseeable future I’m not getting as much time as I would like to get some of these bigger features knocked on the head.

BeOrg and Drafts

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:03:21 +0000

Anyone have information on using BeOrg and Drafts together on an iPhone? In particular, I’d like to know:

Do the two share the iCloud directory containing the files? I’m already synchronizing this directory with Working Copy to Github.
Any gotchas about BeOrg updating a file while you’re working on it with Drafts or vice versa?

Doodle Cloud, 21 September 2020

I haven’t used Drafts that recently, but I don’t think it can edit files directly from iCloud - rather it maintains its own database. So whilst you can import a file it doesn’t maintain a link to the original file so that it can save the contents back again. Other apps such as iA Writer though can work like that. In general though I wouldn’t edit a file in another app that beorg currently has open (such as in the outline or text editor).

Better offline support

Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:48:33 +0000

I use Dropbox to sync org files. I want to use clock when offline (e.g. on the plane) for different tasks. However, current whenever I finish clocking a task and want to switch another one, the App wants to commit the change with Internet.

Banana Fizz, 19 February 2021

Thanks for posting this suggestion to the forum. I’ve made a note to investigate adding this to a future update to beorg.

Syntax highlighting of TODO states in titles with links

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:51:13 +0000

When I define for titles a TODO state and a link, the TODO state is not highlighted. Here’s a screenshot.

Syntax highlighting for titles without links in them works fine.

Mango Giggle, 14 February 2021

Thank you for bringing this issue to my attention. I’ve added it to my list of bugs and hope to fix in a future update.

Puzzle Widget, 17 February 2021

Supporting multiple org-todo-keywords sequences

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 07:03:40 +0000

I have different kind of tasks where I use different keyword sequences, e.g. for single actions and other for projects.

An example can you find here: https://orgmode.org/manual/Multiple-sets-in-one-file.html#Multiple-sets-in-one-file

Doodle Ribbon, 21 May 2019

Thanks for the suggestion. This is one of those features which would be fantastic - but the current economics of beorg mean it’s likely a little way off unfortunately.

Puzzle Widget, 21 May 2019

Anyhow, I think your doing great work with beorg and I hope you can earn your proper share. I don’t have clue how successful such app can be, but I bought all extensions - even Box support without using Box and from time to time I tip something.

Checkboxes

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 21:31:38 +0000

Hi,

I am not sure if it is me or the feature is really not supported, but I’ve found no way to use (mark and toggle) checkboxes of the form - [ ] in beorg.

Rocket Spark, 20 December 2019

Checkboxes can be toggled when rendered on the item editor screen. For example:

Create a new item
Tap Edit Notes
Enter your list
Return to the previous screen
You can now toggle the checkboxes - the results will be saved (and the entered - [ ] updated appropriately)

Birthdays

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:35:16 +0000

I seem to be unable to get birthdays displayed in beorg’s agenda even though I do see them in org-mode agenda on my desktop. What am I missing?

Peach Pebble, 31 January 2021

beorg is a separate implementation of a subset of what Org mode can do. It does however support org-contacts style BIRTHDAY properties for displaying them in the agenda. For example you should find the following works:

* John Smith
:PROPERTIES:
:BIRTHDAY: 2000-09-24
:END:

Puzzle Widget, 1 February 2021

Dear Matthew, thank you for taking the time to reply. I should have added that I truly admire your work on beorg which is an amazing app, and I realize that only a subset of features of org mode are available. I will try our your example. Thanks again.

Slow input from external keyboard in Beorg

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:57:55 +0000

Hi.

I am mostly using my iPad Air 2 with a logitech Keys-to-go external keyboard. When I use Beorg and input text into any field I get really slow response. It takes 0.5-1-5 seconds between pressing a key on the keyboard until it shows up on the screen. This issue has been consistent through IOS 13 and 14, it is the same issue with a apple magic keyboard that I tried with and this is not an issue in other apps. I would love for this issue to be solved so that I can actually take notes in Beorg when I only have my ipad with me. Any other information I can give to help solve this issue?

Beorg crashing immediately on open

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:33:18 +0000

I couldn’t get beorg to sync for some reason, so in an attempt to debug I uninstalled and reinstalled it (so, I know I have the most recent version). Now, opening it causes it to crash immediately. I’ve power cycled my phone, but no luck. I have plenty of storage available on the phone, so it’s not that.

Any ideas?

iOS 14.2, iPhone SE

Tango Jigsaw, 5 January 2021

Addendum: I reinstalled a second time and it seems to be ok again. No idea what happened there.

Nextcloud Webdav sync issues

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:24:20 +0000

I am getting the error(s) shown below when attempting to sync to my nextcloud instance

The credentials I am using have all permissions
I am using a lets encrypt cert but have tried the allow untrusted option and get the same result
I have tried adding /org to the url (https://example.com/remote.php/dav/files/joey/org) and that directory does exist on the server)

Based on googling the error message it seems to be related to the certificate. This article does say to make sure the time is correct on each device. Does this mean that they both need to be in the same timezone or just the minutes and seconds need to be in sync? The server is setup for UTC and I would prefer not to change that. Could that be the cause?

Getting Beorg encryption to work less awkwardly

Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:27:03 +0000

Hi all,

I am trying to love the encryption feature in Beorg and while it’s great that it’s there, I think the workflow is pretty awkward and I’m wondering whether that is my fault or if Beorg could be made to make it a bit easier to use. I’m also aware that encryption is per item and not per file, so this places certain restrictions. Nevertheless I think there are a few UI issues that could be worked out.

How safe is your data?

Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:00:00 +0000

As a freelancer my data is very important to me. I need to know that my files are safe. Most of my note taking, project planning, time tracking and other documents is handled by Emacs using Org mode. A major benefit of using this system over more proprietary apps is that I retain ownership of my data and can easily automate backup to different places.

I use my own app beorg to edit these files on my iPhone and iPad. Each time beorg downloads an updated org file from WebDAV, Dropbox, iCloud, etc it keeps a copy of what it is replacing - and the same happens when you update a file in beorg. Seven days of versions are stored locally on your iPhone/iPad. If you delete a file accidentally in beorg you can get it back again by creating it again, long pressing and selecting versions - they will all still be there in local storage.
My Org files are stored using WebDAV using a free Cloudamo account.
As a SetApp subscriber I have access to ChronoSync Express, and this is a great app for managing your backups if you have relatively simple requirements. Every day ChronoSync on macOS backs up all of my org files to Dropbox and to an external hard disk.

Anything in my Org files which needs to remain confidential is encrypted

Agenda Open witth Saved Search

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:19:29 +0000

I prefer to see a rolling Agenda, usually the next seven days rather then the current calendar week. I know this can be achieved with search but it is possible to open the Agenda view with a saved search?

Thanks

Ian

Pepper Star, 20 January 2021

Not at the moment, but it would be a good addition to make the agenda consistent with the Tasks tab. I’ve made a note of this to hopefully add in a future update.

Hide Future Scheduled Agenda Items

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:00:36 +0000

Having several repeated tasks really clutters up the agenda view. Hiding future scheduled agenda items à** la

(setq org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled 'future)

would be really helpful.

Sunny Zest, 19 February 2019

… or only showing the next repeated task occurrence would be useful. This is done in org-mode with

(setq org-agenda-show-future-repeats 'next).

Ideally beorg will be org habits compatible (as mentioned in Future Work). This would resolve many limitations surrounding repeated tasks, but the above ideas might serve as a short-term fix.

Software I'm using in 2021

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:00:00 +0000

It’s been a few years since I’ve done a proper review of the software I’m using. I find it a useful activity to take a look at those apps which help me be a productive freelance and indie software developer. This article covers only macOS software, since getting an M1 MacBook Air I have few reasons to use iOS apps for work purposes.

What I need to do

Communicate with my clients
Provide support for my indie apps
Write proposals for new projects
Plan projects
Track tasks - for projects and for supporting existing apps
Designing UI for mobile and web apps
Develop apps for iOS
Develop apps for Android
Develop web apps (writing both frontend and server-side code currently in AngularJS, Angular and PHP)
Create/update websites for my indie apps
Forecast income over the next few months
Track time spent on projects - both fixed price and work charged for time spent

Main software

Emacs

I only started using Emacs in 2017 (which prompted me to write my app beorg) and now use throughout my day for writing code (when working on web apps), editing my websites, planning projects, tracking time and more. As a computing environment Emacs is a unique piece of software - a learning curve to be sure but it can change the way you think both about how you use your computer.

iCloud Sync never worked

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:29:30 +0000

Hello,

I am a quite big user of iCloud, hence I would like to store all org files there as well.

I’ve setup the app from scratch with a sync to iCloud. Sync method: iCloud Folder: /org File extension: .org

Now, from the Files app, I can see the folder and the contents of it, from Dropbox, the sync works, however, I’m not fond of using a fully featured tool like Dropbox only for org files.

Can task tab reflect the sort order used in files tab?

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:54:34 +0000

I am hoping to get better ordering of the groups of tasks on the Tasks page. They don’t seem to be connected to the file sort method at all. I have the files tab set to sort by last modified, but the groups of task on the task page still seem to be by file name order. This is annoying, as I have lots of files, and I have to scroll past groups of tasks to get at the ones I want, which are typically the ones I’ve edited most recently.

Banner notification covers save button

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 10:59:58 +0000

When I mark a recurring task as done, I get a notification that drops down to tell me the due dates have been update. This is a nice feature, but the notification covers the save button and I end up having to sit there waiting for it to go away before I can save my item and move on. It would be nice if this notice would go away faster or not cover the save button.

Could moving an item not immediately open the keyboard?

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 16:31:14 +0000

Whenever I’m sorting out all the items I’ve added, I move up and down, promote and demote, a bunch of them in quick succession. Each time I move an item the keyboard immediately opens and covers most of the screen.

Is it possible, or even desirable to others, to not have the keyboard immediately open?

Thank you,

Patrick.

Mango Zest, 22 December 2020

Are you looking to have the buttons that appear above the keyboard on screen but without the keyboard showing? I can see that, particularly on smaller screens, that would be helpful.

beorg 3.8.1

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 18:18:14 +0000

Hot on the heels of 3.8.0 comes 3.8.1. This release gives you the ability to create a time report from items in different files, and enhances the search UI.

To create a time report with items from different files use search to show the items you want to include. Now tap the ‘More’ button at the top right of the screen and select ‘Time Reporting…’. You’ll now get daily, weekly, monthly and ‘all time’ time reports for all of the items in your search.

beorg 3.8.0

Sat, 05 Dec 2020 13:45:29 +0000

In beorg 3.8.0 you can:

Add an agenda widget to your Home Screen with optional Reminders and calendar events
View detail daily, weekly, monthly and all time reports if you use the Task Timers extension

Puzzle Widget, 5 December 2020

Subfolder

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:08:39 +0000

I see subfolder is mentioned in BeOrg Capture a Picture Task, is it still on the roadmap?

Velvet Button, 22 September 2019

I haven’t had any recent requests for beorg to work with non-text items. I’ll keep monitoring interest to see if this is something that I need to look at sooner rather than later.

Puzzle Widget, 23 September 2019

Thanks Mathhew. Other than non text recourses, I organize my org files in separate folders, for example gtd for task files, and note for all my notes, etc. Supporting subfolders can let Beorg download all of them instead of single folder.

Beorg as Universal App

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:07:24 +0000

Hi,

would be great to have beorg as an universal app so I could also use it on my Mac with M1y

Thanks

Merry Giggle, 2 December 2020

I do have an M1 MacBook Air and tested my apps to see which ones worked without any issue. Unfortunately beorg did have some issues with syncing so I removed it from being available on macOS. Before I can look more into fixing the sync issue though I need to some work so I can build beorg in Xcode on the MacBook. There are some issues with some tooling that is used in the build process that isn’t currently compatible with the M1 so I don’t have an ETA on this yet.

No timeout for WebDAV sync

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:02:54 +0000

Hi there,

I have a local WebDAV server running on a rfc1918 address that’s non routable (10.0.1.1) served by rclone via http. Beorg syncs beautifully when I’m in my house but does not timeout the sync process when I disconnect from my wifi. The syncing message is stuck over the running app and seems to block Beorg from changing the state entries.

It seems like beorg is missing a timeout when performing WebDAV syncs that might help a graceful recovery when the WebDAV server is unavailable.

Clock report for clock entries gathered from all files

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 08:32:13 +0000

I see in the official guide that the way you use clocks is to usually consolidate all clock entries within one file, even under one tree. For me and I think many others as well, items are recorded in different files, grouped by topic. e.g. Work, Exercise, Reading, Entertainment etc. It would be great if there could be a clock report functionality (in some future release) which collects clock entries from all files and display them together (similar to what org-agenda does).

Add/edit clock entries manually

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 08:29:30 +0000

Something I do a lot in org-mode is to add/edit clock entries for things that were done in the past (e.g. when it was an offline activity). I see that in the newest version there is an ability to generate clock reports, which is great. I wonder if there could be a functionality to add/edit clock entries easily, in addition to recording new ones.

Friendly Jack, 1 December 2020

I’ll certainly consider that for a future update. It is something I do myself sometimes - for example if I have a call with a client and forgot to record it at the time - so would be useful to me also!

Init file naming and reloading

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:07:37 +0000

I’ve been having a bit of trouble getting my init file to work right, and suspect it may have something to do with the name of the file:

My org mode files are named mumble.org.txt, and my beorg file extension is set to .txt. Should the init file still just be init.org, or should it be init.txt or init.org.txt instead? I’m sure it’s just user error, but the only times I’ve gotten it to work I’ve had two or all three of these (all just copies of one another), which seems unlikely to be necessary.

Keep the timer going even when not editing the item

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:39:11 +0000

If I understood it correctly, it seems that the timer would stop once I exit the task, which is a bummer, since sometimes while doing a task I need to look up my other notes. I understand that it might not be easy to locate the original entry which the timer is for, once I cancel out of the “edit item” screen. Still, it would be nice if we had this functionality. This is also basically how I use org-mode on my computer as a pomodoro tracking system while I do other stuffs in Emacs (e.g. coding).

Today widget

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:35:10 +0000

I was unfaithful and installed OmniFocus for two months now but currently I think I am back to org and beorg ;)

One thing I liked, especially on the iPad is the today-widget which shows me my tasks for today and gives a button for a quick capture. I attached a screenshot. It would be nice to have something like that for beorg :)

Sunny Wonder, 18 April 2020

Welcome back to task management where you data is stored in plain text :)

beorg 3.8.0

Sun, 29 Nov 2020 08:00:00 +0000

It’s nearly the end of 2020 and I want to share some updates I’ve been working on over the past couple of months - the main ones being an iOS 14 widget and time reporting.

Widgets were introduced in iOS 14 back in September and like many of you I’ve enjoyed having key information from a few apps on my home screens. The latest beorg update introduces an agenda widget showing you todays tasks - both from beorg and optionally from Reminders and your calendar. You can see at a glance assigned priorities and whether tasks are overdue. By default only your beorg tasks are shown. To add calendar events and Reminders long press on the widget and choose to Edit “beorg”.

Shortcuts

Sat, 28 Nov 2020 05:47:01 +0000

How do you create a shortcut with Beorg ? I find that Beorg is not in the list of apps when I try to create an action. What am I missing? Any examples of the creation process?

Doodle Cloud, 22 November 2020

Currently you need to use the beorg URL scheme in order to use it with shortcuts. For an example see a beorg learning article which uses a shortcut as part of a workflow - https://beorg.app/learning/using-templates-to-keep-a-reading-log/

Indicator on agenda items or tasks when there is a note attached

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 08:44:29 +0000

Indicator on agenda items or tasks when there is a note attached

Rocket Glow, 17 November 2020

I’ve noticed this had been put in a spam folder, so a bit delayed in appearing on the forum.

I would at some point like to redesign how items are displayed on the agenda and tasks tabs. The following missing information would be useful to see (at least partially):

Whether there are children

Support for multiple date specs in headline?

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:09:14 +0000

Dear developer,

Thank you very much for the wonderful app. It even allows one to run a Scheme REPL on a phone, what a time to be alive!

I have the following observation. Some of my Org headlines contain several data specs to describe a repeating event on multiple weekdays. Beorg only shows the events coming from the first date spec it finds in a headline, or so it appears.

Reminders to Beorg shortcut - modified

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 05:46:31 +0000

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/30ed245beaab4f4786b76a9ae2fa81a2

Here’s a modified version of Matthew’s IOS Reminders to Beorg Shortcut. Rather than copying the reminders to the clipboard this one as them as Beorg agenda items, with scheduled dates if the original items have them. This is far from finished, but I was kind of surprised when it worked at all… Main use case is that you can add reminders via Siri, then run this to copy them across into Beorg and then into Org Mode.

File Page in Beorg Hang

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 16:30:31 +0000

All,

Been having a fine time with org, especially since my last issue was fixed with the help of this forum.

Currently, when I am in safari (iOS 14.2, iphone XR) and I click the share menu to use the File Page in Beorg shortcut, absolutely nothing happens.

Now, there are two conditions under which it will “work.”

The first is if I’ve just restarted my phone and its the first page I attempt to file.

How to flatten note hierarchy? aka add no new headline with a new note

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:12:32 +0000

I like my org hierarchy to be

Inbox

** Thing 1

note1

** Thing2

note2

etc. Note there is a single 1-star headline. How do I do this in beorg? Every time I create a new note in beorg it forces me to add a Headline, and that headline becomes another 1-star headline, but I’d like to file new notes under Inbox instead.

Pippin Wonder, 20 October 2020

You can create a template to do this. Swipe up on the blue capture button and tap Manage Templates. In the template you can set the file you want the new entry added to, and the headline hierarchy so that for you your new entry would be added underneath Inbox. Check out https://beorg.app/manual/#templates in the beorg manual for an introduction to creating templates.

Poorly Formatted Links with 'File Page in Beorg' Shortcut

Thu, 08 Oct 2020 08:46:49 +0000

So I followed the method here and it works beautifully 99% of the time. However when the page doesn’t have a ’name’ (going by the variables in the Shortcut) for instance, a URL to a PDF, I get this ugly, poorly formatted link that when I try to use it gives me a 404 error. A picture of the results is attached. Is there a way to change the way it is captured if there is no ’name’ value for the Shortcut to capture? For reference, my Shortcut is identical the one linked above.

All files moved into a phantom folder

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 08:51:41 +0000

All of my org files now appear in the app as though they were inside a folder called “es”. This appears to be a duplication of the last two characters of the folder where the org files actually sit (org-files/). I am syncing via WebDAV and the actual folder structure has not changed. Syncing appears to be blocked, since it is trying to put files in a folder that doesn’t exist.

iOS Files

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:05:20 +0000

Hi. Do you have plans to support use of the native iOS Files app in the future? I’m pretty much a noob, but I’ve been watching the development of Beorg for some time. I’ve been a long time Omnifocus user mainly because I haven’t had time to commit to learning Emacs (for desktop editing) until recently. I am currently in the process of migrating my workflow over to Emacs org mode/Beorg slowly. I also have a lot of plaintext files that I sync using DevonThink. I normally edit those files using iA Writer, but it would be very cool if I could access those from Beorg as well.

Deadline tasks and agenda

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 08:46:59 +0000

I think it would be better if Beorg showed tasks with an upcoming deadline in the scheduled date (today if no or past scheduled) rather than the deadline date. You can mark it with “d+11d” like you do missed deadlines.

Next week’s deadline is not obvious the way you have it now.

Doodle Cloud, 23 September 2020

To elaborate, if a TODO has a deadline in the future, then it should be shown on the agenda for today beginning at the Scheduled Date (Today if no Scheduled Date) and continue showing on each successive day until the Deadline is reached. During that time, mark the TODO as due in plus days (d+10, for instance).

Keeping a food diary using beorg

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:00:00 +0000

For the next couple of weeks I’m logging my blood pressure and food in-take for my doctor. The blood pressure logging is handled by a Withings BPM Connect. I looked at some food tracking apps but they were all far more than I needed. beorg is great for managing tasks and can provide a quick way of logging what food I eat. In this blog post I’m going to show you how I created a beorg template to provide a quick way to log my meals.

3.7.1 sharing

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:02:57 +0000

For some reason sharing no longer works for me since the 3.7.1 update. I share, say, a bit of text to Beorg to the default inbox file (called inbox.txt for me) but when I open Beorg it doesn’t show up there.

This is on an iPad mini with software version 13.7

Merry Pebble, 18 September 2020

Same here with 3.7.1 . and WebDav.

I checked with another phones, it is related to 3.7.1 and not iOS 14.

File name not complete

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:49:57 +0000

beorg version: 3.7.1, 3.7.2

I’m using webdav and syncing files between mobile and desktop. And recently the the file name start missing the prefix character.

For example, in my server:

➜ data ls

inbox.org log.org shopping.org

And in beorg file names become:

Clever Button, 22 September 2020

Worse problem is when adding new task item to the file,

for example, adding a new task to inbox.

beorg will created new inbox file locally.

Sync issues

Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:02:02 +0000

First off, thank you so much for making Beorg. Having access to my org files on my iOS device has been the best thing ever.

Put simply, my issue is about files syncing. After updating to iOS14, all my org files are showing up on the ”files” screen of beorg with the first letter of the file name missing.

So a file named: inbox.org Is showing up as: nbox.org

I have about 5 files and all of them are cleanly missing the first letter of the file name. When trying to open these files with missing letters, they appear to be blank.

Share extension action doesn't save items to inbox

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 08:44:31 +0000

When I read a post in Reeder and want to save it for later, I share the item and choose the beorg capture action from the share extension sheet. I enter details as usual, then save.

The inbox file is not updated, though. There also is no error message indicating a failure. The share action effectively appears to be broken in Safari and Reeder at least.

The “+” in the app works fine.

BUG: marking a todo as DONE

Sun, 13 Sep 2020 11:15:57 +0000

I believe that, when marking a todo as DONE, Emacs first changes the times on the next line from “[]” to “<>” so that a SCHEDULED/DEADLINE item doesn’t show up as still active.

At the moment, I’m not sure, but I don’t think BeOrg is doing this.

Doodle Cloud, 3 August 2020

I’ve just tested this in Emacs but the SCHEDULED line isn’t being changed. If you have an Org mode configuration setting which allows this let me know and I’ll look into whether it would be a useful setting for beorg as well.

Initial search in TODOs

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 09:17:43 +0000

Maybe there’s a way to do this that I’ve not yet found, but assuming not:

It would be great to be able to configure beorg so that when first going to the TODO list an initial saved search is used. Granted, it’s a little thing, just saving a few taps, but as it’s such a frequent operation it would be most welcome.

Thanks!

Clever Giggle, 6 September 2020

At the bottom of the screen, above the tab bar, is a “Show All” button and another button which allows you to select a saved search. If you select a search from here then beorg will remember and show it again the next time you go to the Task tab even if beorg is restarted. However it doesn’t currently support showing a specific saved search, rather than the last one. It sounds useful to do as you described, I’ll have a think about if this can be implemented in a future update.

Auto-save while editing

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 09:12:46 +0000

I find that I keep losing changes I make, as I add tasks in the File view then tap Save on the item. Then I’m back to the hierarchical task view of the file and forget to hit the Back button to go back to the file list and sync it back to Dropbox. It would be great if when I hit “Save” on an item in a file, it actually saves the file back to Dropbox immediately.

Issue with Notes field

Fri, 04 Sep 2020 11:09:12 +0000

The Notes field for tasks does not display text beyond a certain length. I have about 10 checklist items and they are not visible.

Rocket Glow, 2 September 2020

Could you provide a screenshot illustrating the issue? If you could also provide the raw text representing the checklist and any other content which illustrates the problem that would be great.

Which version of iOS are you using?

Puzzle Widget, 2 September 2020

Here’s a photo. I tried to recreate the problem without showing private tasks. The last item is cut off.

TestFlight

Fri, 04 Sep 2020 10:11:38 +0000

@Matthew Kennard I’d be happy to beta test. Will you add me at beorg[at]readysetgeo[dot]org?

Thanks!

Sunny Zest, 6 August 2019

My forum is a bit over zealous when it comes to marking posts as spam - so only just seen this. I’ve added you so you should now have an invite.

Puzzle Widget, 9 August 2019

I am loving the app! @Matthew Kennard I’d be happy to beta test, do you have beta testers? Let me know, G.

beorg 3.7.1

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 13:10:09 +0000

On the files tab you can now choose whether to open a file in the outliner, item editor or text editor using a long press on iOS 13.
Better handling of priorities which are not just a single letter.
New scheme variable beorg-add-newline-between-headlines to add a blank line before headlines when writing org files.
When encrypting notes ensure the text being encrypted always ends with a newline to prevent issues in Emacs when decrypting items.

How to make emacs org-crypt encryption work as smoothly as Beorg?

Sun, 16 Aug 2020 13:15:27 +0000

Hello all, I am enjoying the encryption extension quite a lot and it seems to work quite well in Beorg. Editing entries is really, just open, touch/face-id to decrypt, make changes, and encrypt again.

On emacs, though, the flow for symmetric encryption with org-crypt is pretty clunky.

In this example, I make 1 edit to my file, with 1 for-safety save and I get to enter the encryption password 5 times!

find all recent updates on this forum?

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 09:07:58 +0000

Is there a straightforward way to find all posts to this forum, sorted by date, starting from most recent? I come here every couple of months to see what has happened since I last looked, and it seems that I need to look separately at every category – so I often worry that I might have missed something relevant.

I don’t have any experience with freshdesk, other than looking at the beorg support forum.

Sync could not be completed : 3.7.0 (200)

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 09:02:19 +0000

I’m beta testing Version 3.7.0 (200). I am seeing an error message (modal dialog box) that I have never seen before: “Sync could not be completed. There was a problem uploading a file to org/.”

The dialog box does not tell me which file(s) could not be synchronized and does not give me any details that could let me track down the source of the problem.

It appears that my inbox org file (which I call “0inbox.txt” for my own reasons) is among the files that were not synced: I added an item to it, which has not made its way over to my desktop emacs.

Alarm/bell with notication for task with timestamps

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 15:04:21 +0000

The functionality would consist in being able to set up an alarm when specifying a time in a task. In this way, a task that is due or scheduled would ring the alarm in addition to the normal notification of the task.

This could work in a similar way as the classic alarm of the Iphone for example.

Plum Zest, 2 July 2020

Thanks for the feature request. Is your idea to help you be more prominently notified of certain tasks? I wonder whether the ability to select a particular sound (which could be up to 30 seconds in length) when you set a scheduled/deadline/show on date would work for this? Not something currently planned but I imagine could be quite useful so you don’t ignore certain tasks.

BeOrg Encryption removes trailing newlines from content

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 16:09:34 +0000

I love BeOrg’s encryption and use it a lot. The biggest problem I have with it is that when I decrypt an item in Emacs, the headline below that item is moved up so that it is one the same line as the last line of the encrypted content.

My guess is that it doesn’t include a newline as part of the encrypted content.

For example:

* Title 1 :crypt:
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
lasdjfhsjdhf
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
* Title 2 :crypt:
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
etc

Set UI color for priority

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:09:39 +0000

Is it possible in the init file to set a color for specific priority levels as a way to better visualize it?

(I’m new to beorg and like the flexibility)

Sunny Fizz, 28 July 2020

Not currently. At the moment the priority symbols are static images - it would be good though if they were dynamically generated and more control was available over how they appeared. Something potentially for a future update!

LaTeX support in notes

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 09:22:17 +0000

Apart from TODO tracking, I use org-mode for note-taking as well. For people like me, it would be very helpful to render the formulas written in LaTeX in Notes section. The specifications of this feature might be open to discussion (maybe similar to Dynalist’s).

Apple Sprout, 19 May 2019

This is a possible future feature. There is a great JavaScript library for this called MathJax so probably shouldn’t be too hard.

Tasks on multiple days

Tue, 30 Jun 2020 11:27:22 +0000

If a task is assigned not one but two or more dates it does show up only on the date corresponding to the first timestamp and not all (as in orgmode agenda). Does beorg not support this kind of repetition or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,

Alex

Velvet Dash, 29 June 2020

Currently only the first date of each type cause an agenda entry to be generated. So you should find if you assign a scheduled date and a separate deadline date then there will be two entries in the agenda.

Calendars not shown at all

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:28:44 +0000

Dear all,

this might be some stupid newbie issue but when I go to “Configure calendars” I just see an empty empty screen. Not so for the “Configure reminders” tab. I tried both the Nextcloud calendars I’m usually using as well as an iCloud calendar that I created for testing purposes.

Do you have any idea what I might have missed to configure?

Thanks,

Alex

Velvet Dash, 26 June 2020

Please check that beorg has been given permission to see your calendars. To do this tap Privacy at the top of the Settings tab in beorg. This will then open the beorg settings within the main iOS Settings apps. Make sure that calendars to turned on.

Agenda as publish internet calendar (ics)

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 09:45:40 +0000

Description

it would be great to publish the calendar items (which come from beorg) into a publich internet calendar via a public “ics” file (optional in addition html).

Use case

(1) share my agenda with my wife (which I currently do for my outlook calendar) - note that title and content of “private” meetings are not shared (some things are confidential)

(2) share the agenda into the iOS calendar app, by subscribing to the beorg shared calendar

Web pages shortcut not working

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 11:05:41 +0000

Was wondering if anyone found that the shortcut to save webpages in Beorg stopped working with recent updates. Very useful. Has anyone found a fox?

Rocket Glow, 31 May 2020

Could you share the shortcut you are using and I’ll take a look and try and reproduce your issue (or a screenshot)

Puzzle Widget, 2 June 2020

For me it also does not work.

Error message via popup in my shortucts: “The operation couldn’t be complete. (InterchangeCall-backErrorDomain error 0.)” - OK

When opening beorg, scroll from start of the week to Today by default

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 10:41:15 +0000

Hey, I noticed that when beorg starts, I always look at Monday instead of the current day. Would be cool if the action of the „Today“ button would be triggered immediately! Thanks! — Christian

Happy Juice, 19 June 2020

beorg should go to the current day when started. Do you have beorg start on the Agenda tab, or have you changed it to start on a different tab?

Also, which sync method are you using?

WebDAV Folder support

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 09:28:08 +0000

Dear beorg developer,

first of all many thanks for this great application. I use it everyday and I’m happy with it :).

I started recently using the WebDAV integration part and I came up that it would be nice for beorg to support navigation inside nested folders structure to access .org files inside. Would it be possible to implement such a feature? I’m willing to sponsor the feature if required.

report a bug

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 09:19:20 +0000

i use beorg in ios 13, when i use this code ,

#+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle yes
'("https://www.zhihu.com/search?type=content&q=%s")
#+end_src

the preview show this error code

It wasn't possible to render this document:

URIError: URI error

Banana Fizz, 5 June 2020

I shall investigate what is going on - thanks for reporting.

Puzzle Widget, 5 June 2020

I’ve implemented a fix for this and it will be in the next beorg update (hopefully next week).

Change agenda start day

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 13:50:05 +0000

I would like to change the Agenda view to start on the current day and show the next 10 days.

Using the information from this this StackOverflow thread, the following command should provide this:

(setq org-agenda-start-on-weekday nil)
(setq org-agenda-span 10)

I added this to my init.org:

#+begin_src scheme
(setq org-agenda-start-on-weekday nil)
(setq org-agenda-span 10)
#+end_src

This does not work, but I don’t know if this is because I put in the wrong syntax (I am very, very new to org-mode), or if beorg does not support this feature yet.

iCloud syncing best practice

Thu, 07 May 2020 09:16:11 +0000

I’ve finally made the leap to org mode on my mac and on my iPhone. Everything is working very well, except for one small issue so far I’m unsure about, and that’s syncing.

I’ve found frequently that Beorg will show one version of a file, and when I open the iCloud org files in emacs, I’m seeing an older out of date version. I’m not sure how to fix that. My local org home folder includes:

Export or print agenda

Mon, 04 May 2020 08:59:36 +0000

I love the agenda view and how it pulls in all my calendar meetings and reminders as well as my .org TODO items. The only problem is I have to login to my iPad each time I want to view my agenda throughout the day.

Can you add support for exporting the agenda view as a PDF or to print the view from within the app?

Thanks,

John

Banana Widget, 3 May 2020

Thank you for your suggestion - I have made a note of this in my big list of potential future features. I do hope to relatively soon introduce a Today widget so you can have access from pinned widgets on your home screen or from Notifications centre.

Colours

Fri, 01 May 2020 17:40:44 +0000

Is there a way at the REPL to dump the default colours, preferably to a file?

Sunny Cloud, 1 May 2020

If you are referring to the colours/styles used to render notes/exported files then I’ve attached the org file defining the built-in themes.

For the UI colours these are defined in the app code itself. I’ve attached the assets file - there is an individual JSON file per colour. If I get time I’ll see if I can get this into a more usable format - but my time is a little constrained at the moment by lock down and small children.

Set tag with Shortcuts

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:06:28 +0000

Is it possible to set tags for a Beorg template using Apple’s Shortcuts app?

Thanks!

Happy Twist, 22 April 2020

Yes, you can do this. Take a look at https://www.beorg.app/learning/using-templates-to-keep-a-reading-log/. It doesn’t use tags, but you this should be clear from the edit template screen. Any issues let me know.

Puzzle Widget, 27 April 2020

I think I wasn’t clear enough. I was asking about the callback url e.g.

beorg://x-callback-url/capture?title=TITLE_VARIABLE&template=TEMPLATE_VARIABLE

Is there a keyword like “title”, “template” for tags?

WebDAV - Self-signed or HTTP

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:03:42 +0000

It would be nice to have an option on the WebDAV configuration to allow plain http or non-verified/self-signed cert. I’d like to setup an internal webdav server that would be accessed remotely via vpn. I can’t use letsencrypt because it wouldn’t be publicly accessible.

Clever Sprout, 3 September 2019

I will look at offering this as an option in a future update.

Puzzle Widget, 9 September 2019

Allowing http-schemed webdav links (by disabling App Transport Security) would be really cool for users of Working Copy too, as the app has its own built-in webdav server that beorg could sync from… but only from http://localhost, no ssl.

Beorg not syncing with icloud

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 18:16:28 +0000

I’ve checked on https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/ and the files in the beorg folder are in sync with my mac. However, they are not syncing on either of my phones (even recently updated files say they were last modified 6 days ago). Help!

I’ve checked that I’m online, updated to the latest beorg app, and have gone to files and pressed the sync button. I am still listed as syncing with icloud in the config.

Quick state change of tasks

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:11:54 +0000

I have often a situation, where I need to quickly set several task to done state. At the moment there the swipe to left gesture to set a task to another state, but when you perform the swipe gesture, a new menu opens where one can select a state to choose. It would be very nice if the swipe to left gesture could be extended, so that you can choose if the menu opens (which of course is very helpful) or if a preselect state (defined in the settings) is set.

Suggestion: Consider rewriting BeOrg docs in Org format?

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:25:51 +0000

If the documentation to Beorg was written in Org text files, you could export it as Texinfo and we could load it up as a node in our Emacs documentation tree for reference. Of course, it could also be exported as a PDF book or an HTML website. And all from a single Org file.

Possible bonus - we might help edit it for you.

Doodle Cloud, 2 April 2020

I did originally have the beorg documentation written in an Org file, however the conversion to HTML by the static generator I use for the website kept having issues with some aspects of it (Hugo). As such it was easier at the time to convert it to Markdown and work with that instead. It might be worth me trying again to see if the Hugo handling of more complex Org files has improved and convert back into org mode.

Add timestamped notes directly from file editor

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 07:23:17 +0000

Hi,

Not an urgent feature at all, but something that’d be nice:

The ‘add note’ feature that you have via 3D-press on a note in todo view is nice because it adds a timestamp to the note. I don’t see how this is possible from within the file editor. Yes you can edit notes there, but there is not the same easy timestamp option.

Suggestion: add it to the edit item display, next to the button for editing item properties.

beorg 3.6.1

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 09:18:04 +0000

This update has two new features:

A new button on the item editor toolbar to add dated notes. When editing an item, by tapping an entry on the Agenda or Tasks tab, you can tap a toolbar button to add a quick note which will automatically include the current date and time.
If want to use WebDAV with a local server with a self-signed certificate, or a server on the Internet for which you can’t create a trusted certificate (for example by using letsencrypt.org) then you can now instruct beorg to allow untrusted certificates for WebDAV sync. Be careful with this feature and only use with a server you trust. This setting won’t affect anything else on your device or in beorg - only WebDAV sync.

Edit non-synchronized org files

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 09:39:09 +0000

I use org as a markup language (instead of markdown) to write a lot of documents not related to tasks processing. Problem is, none of the existing text applications handles the org syntax natively. Having the possibility to open an org file for editing from the ‘files’ or the ‘Nextcloud’ app would be simple and super useful !

Maple Jumble, 21 March 2020

This may be something I’ll look at in the future - I do need to review how files are handled as part of subdirectory support. One app I’ve used that you can get working with Org files is TextTastic - https://www.textasticapp.com. It can work with your own syntax stylesheets - and is purpose built for editing text and will likely be much better for doing that than beorg for the foreseeable future.

Synch subdirectories

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:00:45 +0000

Hi everyone,

I’m a Beorg premium user and I love it. Unfortunately, during my intense use of Beorg, I’ve found something that really makes my productivity and workflow worse.

I sync all my org files with Dropbox, but Beorg doesn’t show the files in subdirectories (for instance, the file Dropbox/someorgfile.org is visible, but Dropbox/somedirectory/someotherogfile.org is not visible). Is there any trick that could fix this problem?

Pippin Moon, 17 March 2020

This is something which has been often requested in the past, and something I am going to look at. Some early decisions in writing the code for beorg has made this slightly harder than it otherwise would be to support - however something I am very keen to get sorted.

Questions merging/sync conflicts

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 21:35:17 +0000

Hi,

I do not understand how to solve version conflicts. So, I have beorg with .org files in iCloud and emacs, which has the same files open. Normally, emacs has an option to update the buffer if the file updates - I have found it out.

However, if I change something in emacs buffer (I have not saved it yet) and then I change things in beorg I end up with 2 versions (iCloud and emacs buffer) and in emacs I have only the option to revert to file or overwrite the file with emacs buffer contents. Either way I will loose either buffer or beorg contents.

beorg 3.6.0

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 08:43:19 +0000

There is a new beorg extension available in this release. You can now create and edit properties on items. See https://beorg.app/blog/properties/ for more information. The properties extension is part of beorg Premium and as an individual in-app purchase.

Puzzle Widget, 6 March 2020

Properties

Thu, 27 Feb 2020 08:00:00 +0000

Org mode allows you to ‘attach’ arbitrary key/value properties to items. beorg has been able to read these and allow you to search these for some time. What has been missing is a way to easily create and edit your own properties from within beorg. The next update to beorg will introduce a new extension to allow properties to be created and edited.

To get started with properties tap the new properties button on the bottom toolbar when editing an item:

[FEATURE] Sync.com support

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:08:47 +0000

Sync.com has security at rest and is fast becoming a global competitor to Dropbox (and is Canuckian, so everyone trust them… =] ).

I’d love to have beorg support syncing to it since I am intending to move off of Dropbox to it shortly.

thanks!

Daryl.

Maple Pebble, 23 February 2020

I haven’t come across sync.com before. I’ll keep an eye on it!

Adding more sync services is something I’m frequently asked for, although sync is slightly painful to maintain - and a lot of support queries relate to sync, so I’m now very careful to promise/add support for more services.

Add Widget

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:58:21 +0000

Similar to how the built in reminders app has a widget that is accessible from the lock screen, I would find it very useful to be able to view my agenda at a glance with a widget.

Doodle Moon, 17 January 2019

Thanks for the suggestion! Highly likely this will be implemented in a future update.

Puzzle Widget, 21 May 2019

I’d like to add to this suggestion, but not about the agenda.

Syncing notification is overly prominent

Sun, 09 Feb 2020 14:16:37 +0000

I spend a lot of time reading PDFs in Books and switching over to Beorg to write a note. Each time I do so Beorg syncs with the server. The notification takes up a lot of screen space on an iPhone SE and appears twice if you happen to be editing text. It’s frustrating to not be able to see the text I’m editing for a few seconds each time I switch app, especially if I’m in airplane mode and it can’t sync anyway.

What does SYNC = NONE mean?

Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:53:38 +0000

Can you explain what it means when the sync method is set to None in beorg? Where do you get the Org files from then? Or do you? What’s the workflow?

Doodle Cloud, 4 February 2020

beorg stores its org files locally within its sandbox regardless of the sync method being used. For example if I have a file called test.org then I can see that file exists within the sandbox at:

Updates on Git with BeOrg?

Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:49:41 +0000

I’m starting to try to use github with my setup of the following:

Windows-10 running full Cygwin with Emacs and Org
A Chromebook running Linux-Beta with Emacs and Org
An iPhone running Working Copy and BeOrg (may add more for family)

Hand tremors are slowing me down on this, but #1 and #2 work fine now. Working Copy seems to work fine in #3 in that my Git directory is pulled locally to an iCloud drive directory.

beorg 3.5.2

Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:30:49 +0000

This release clears up a few bugs. If you spot any issues with beorg please use the Support Center linked to on the Settings tab.

Puzzle Widget, 30 January 2020

beorg 3.5.1

Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:30:14 +0000

A few iCloud sync bugs crept into 3.5.0 - this release should fix them. If you still experience any issues please get in touch via the forum or raising a ticket on the support center.

Puzzle Widget, 30 January 2020

beorg 3.5.0

Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:29:46 +0000

In this first release of 2020 beorg introduces bulk editing of items on your

agenda and TODO lists. Simply hold down two fingers on an item and drag down to

start selecting, or tap the top right button and choose Select Items. You can

then bulk change state, priority, tags and dates. Great for sorting out your New Year tasks!

Also in this release:

Fix for Reminders not always showing the latest updates

"from completed" repeat type should not change time of day

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 01:23:00 +0000

If you have a task whose timestamp uses the .+x repeater, like:

** TODO Brush teeth
DEADLINE: <2019-08-28 Wed 8:00 .+1d>

If the task is marked “DONE” at 2019-08-29 12:34, for instance, Emacs will set the new deadline to <2019-08-30 Fri 8:00 .+1d>, whereas Beorg sets it to <2019-08-30 Fri 12:34 .+1d>, changing the time of day. I think the time of day should not change, to align with Emacs’s behavior in this case.

Calendar doesn’t show on agenda

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:18:30 +0000

Looked around, couldn’t find a fix.

The calendar just doesn’t show up, even though I gave it permission.

See log below

15:24:15 Starting beorg 15:24:15 Subscription anonymous user ID: 30ED14C5-1C7E-4E27-BD85-A9ADA9E9C444 15:24:15 Watch: Initializing WatchCommsManager 15:24:15 Watch: No cached agenda available 15:24:15 Watch: Activated session 15:24:16 Watch: Session activation completed WCSessionActivationState 15:24:16 Version 3.5.1. 15:24:17 Starting sync 15:24:17 Sync completed: { conflicts = ( ); error = “”; } 15:24:17 Finished scheduling notifications: { count = 0; } 15:24:17 Watch: Agenda updated 15:24:33 Starting sync 15:24:33 Uploading all modified org files 15:24:33 No more files to upload 15:24:33 Sync completed: { conflicts = ( ); error = “”; } 15:24:33 Finished scheduling notifications: { count = 0; } 15:24:50 Locking task builder 15:24:52 Unlocking task builder 15:24:54 Starting sync 15:24:54 Uploading all modified org files 15:24:54 No more files to upload 15:24:54 Sync completed: { conflicts = ( ); error = “”; } 15:24:54 Finished scheduling notifications: { count = 0; } 15:24:54 Sync complete 15:24:54 Not refreshing agenda as either currently building, being edited or task builder is locked 15:28:39 Starting sync 15:28:39 Uploading all modified org files 15:28:39 No more files to upload 15:28:39 Sync completed: { conflicts = ( ); error = “”; } 15:28:39 Finished scheduling notifications: { count = 0; }

A little bit of Scheme

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:21:54 +0000

A question came through this morning on how to do something in Scheme. I don’t usually have time to answer individual Scheme questions unfortunately however this one caught my eye and I gave it a go.

The user wanted to define a Scheme function to select a line in the text editor based on the position of the cursor. This could then be attached to an editor toolbar button.

The problem can be broken down as follows:

The inbox file duplications itself

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:39:30 +0000

Sometime there’s inbox file have been duplicated by the app. Like there’s several inbox files appearing instead of the only one (e.g inbox 2.org, inbox 3.org etc). Another files except the only in which I add items by share extension are not affected by this behavior.

The issue appears when I save some items by beorg share extension. I think this happens as you mentioned in Twitter with because of file version conflict. And I think it happens because of I’m making items add with different devices without app opening.

Sort order for todos is strange

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:48:01 +0000

Hi,

First of all: thanks for a great app! For the most part it works splendidly.

Unfortunately, it has one quirk that I find rather annoying and I was wondering if that could be changed. The order in which tasks are shown is determined by the order in which they occur in the file. This has the unfortunate side effect that tasks without a scheduled date (which must be done immediately) are interspersed with tasks that do, even if the scheduled date is sometime in the future.

beorg 3.5.0 - Bulk Editing

Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:44:15 +0000

This beorg update gives you the ability to edit multiple items at once, as well as a few other enhancements.

Bulk Editing

Let’s say you have a bunch of tasks in your inbox, and want to schedule some of them of this weekend.

Here I’ve a saved search called inbox which shows me everything regardless of whether currently a task or not.

To activate selecting multiple items I can hold down two fingers on an item and start dragging up or down. This only works on iOS 13 - alternatively you can tap the top right button on the screen and choose Select Items….

Auto-capture from iCloud Calendar/Reminders to inbox.org

Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:42:46 +0000

Hello,

Maybe there is a way to already do this, that I missed in my limited search. But I am really pleased with how beorg syncs with Reminders/Calendar to display relevant information on the agenda screen.

However, beorg has spoilt me with this feature, and I now wish that information showed up on the agenda in my laptop too. That would be possible with beorg wrote whatever it was displaying from reminders/calendars to lets say inbox.org

Property inheritance

Mon, 06 Jan 2020 00:05:50 +0000

It would be great if beorg can support property inheritance.

In my org setup, I often use this when I want to “suspend” a project. Once a project (top level task with PROJ todo status) has this property set, all subtasks are marked as inactive and do not show up on my agenda.

See snippet below for example.

* PROJ Improve beorg setup        :@computer:
  :PROPERTIES:
  :SUSPENDED: t
  :END:
** NEXT Improve context mapping
** TODO Add new filter for old tasks

Editing Tags

Fri, 03 Jan 2020 14:01:30 +0000

Hi all, I have been pulling my hair out but for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to edit tags that have been set?

Basically I made a typo with one of the names of the tag and want to edit it. But how??!

Pippin Moon, 2 January 2020

You can create a new tag with correct spelling, tag with it all tasks that were tagged with the bad spelling tag. Then you can remove bad spelling tag from all tasks, that would remove the misspelled tag. That sounds more complicated then it is . You can use search function to find all tasks with the misspelled tag and then select them all and use “add tag” and 0remove tag” for all of them. Hope that helps.

Contribution Box on Website?

Thu, 02 Jan 2020 17:25:06 +0000

I don’t know if it would work or be helpful, but maybe you should consider adding a contribution link to the website. I bet there are people — at least a few — who might be willing to support development in contributions larger than those provided for in the app.

Most people just want to buy an app and be done, but maybe Beorg is a little different. I understand that you want to move in the direction of an independently attractive iPhone app, but Beorg is, in my view, also a tremendous service to the Free Software and Emacs community in a society that has become smart-phone dependent in a fashion unimaginable when Richard Stallman first developed Emacs. (Given the usual shelf life of software, it is amazing Emacs still exists, although I have never been able to find any usage statistics.)

Configuring notifications?

Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:46:42 +0000

I mostly use schedule dates for filtering items. I’d prefer to have notifications only fire for items that have a due date – right now, things are very noisy. However, it looks like scheduled items also fire notifications, and I can’t seem to find a way to turn that off. Is that possible? I can see that there’s some configuration for badging, is there something like that for notifications?

Peach Zest, 15 December 2019

That isn’t possible at the moment, however it is something worth me looking at to make notifications more flexible. What sort of customisation over notifications are you looking before beyond what types of dates are used to determine if a notification gets scheduled?

Quick add of several task

Sun, 22 Dec 2019 10:01:35 +0000

Sometimes I have a lot of tasks to add to the inbox file (take things me for a conference or an exhibition booth, grocery list, etc). At the moment I have to select a template, save the task and select the template once again. When doing this for 10 or 20 tasks, this is slowing the process down. It would be very helpful if the task input dialog would have a button like „save and next“ which save the current task as a new one and open a new enorm task dialog (of the same template) for Input.

Encryption support

Fri, 20 Dec 2019 20:10:22 +0000

What about encryption support? I’ve found only one same feature request https://appsonthemove.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/14000013330

I agree about unauthorised access to own mobile phone, but what about unencrypted sensitive orgfiles in sharing services (Dropbox / nextcloud / etc.)? It needs for easy syncing orgfiles between devices. For example, MobileOrg has org-mobile support (https://mobileorg.github.io/documentation/#encryption). But will be great has support for standard emacs org encryption - gpg files.

P.S. Support pin / touch id /face id is a nice privacy optional feature, but it’s an another case.

Notifications not working

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 14:18:11 +0000

beorg v 2.10.0

iOS 12.1.4

I setup a task with a scheduled time say: 23 Feb 2019 at 3:00 PM

In beorg settings I have Timed task reminders (minutes) set to 30

So I should expect a notification at 2:30 PM right? I don’t get a notification. I tried multiple times with all the time options – scheduled time, deadline time and show time, but the notifications don’t fire.

The app icon badge doesn’t show the count of the overdue tasks as well. Am i missing some setting?

Show lines that contain the search term in found items

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 08:51:47 +0000

Hi Matthew,

thanks again for the great product and for wonderful new features! Specifically, having the search in notes option is great!

Sometimes, the search returns multiple found items. Each of them indicates the item title and the parent task or file. That is also great. Please consider displaying the sentence or the line where the search term was found in every found item. In this case, you would see the context and would not have to open all items one by one to choose the one you were actually trying to find. It looks like there is a room for that under the item tile. If that is not feasible, you product is great as it is!

beorg 3.4.0

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 03:35:08 +0000

Thanks to everyone who have contributed suggestions on how to make the thinking person’s to-do app even better.

This release introduces a new extension for encrypting individual items using OpenPGP - an IETF encryption standard. Encryption works with an items notes and subitems - and is great for confidential information you want to keep in beorg. OpenPGP symmetric encryption is supported (that is an item is encrypted with a password) - and your encryption password is securely stored in the Keychain and uses Touch ID/Face ID for quick unlocking. If you use Emacs and Org mode the beorg implementation is compatible with EasyPG. (Please note full file encryption not yet supported).

Archiving of tasks/trees

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:50:58 +0000

It would be great to be able to clean up files by archiving tasks/subtrees, like org-archive-subtree does in org-mode.

Cosmic Fizz, 25 November 2019

Getting started with encryption in Org mode on macOS

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Org mode allows you to encrypt both individual items and entire files. I’ve just released support for encrypting individual entries using beorg, my iOS task manager which works with Org mode files, so thought it would be useful to show you how to configure encryption for Emacs and Org mode.

In this post I’m going to show you how to:

Install GPG Suite, the easiest way to get the tools needed to encrypt/decrypt OpenPGP on macOS
Add the necessary configuration to Emacs for symmetric key encryption
Encrypt and decrypt entries in Org mode

Installing GPG Suite

GPG Suite is the quickest way to get GnuPG onto macOS. GnuPG is needed by EasyPG which is how Emacs supports OpenPGP. GPG Suite comes with a 30 day trial of a plugin for macOS mail - however the tools that we need aren’t subject to a trial. In fact even the paid GPG Mail plugin is licensed under the GPL v3 so you could build it yourself if you wanted to from source.

ability to search/filter items by contents of notes

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 09:14:36 +0000

Would you be willing to add an “item-notes” helper function to library.org, so that custom scheme filters can select items based on contents of the items’ notes (a.k.a. underneath text)? I tend to store large quantities of reference information in the form of text and plain lists beneath my orgmode headlines (a.k.a. items), so it would be useful to me to be able to match items (headlines) based on such content.

Which flags can I use in badge-filter? Can I use a function?

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 09:06:11 +0000

I would like to set badge-filter to count only tasks that are overdue, incomplete and have priority A. Which flag is best for my purpose? Should I use a function instead?

I haven’t been able to find the flags documented anywhere, so I’m writing this support request to hopefully help the next person too.

Thanks!

Apple Pudding, 23 November 2019

The badge-filter uses the standard beorg search. See https://beorg.app/manual/#search for an overview of this, or from the agenda or TODO tab tap search and there is a guide available by tapping the ? on the toolbar above the keyboard.

Encoding issue

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:55:59 +0000

I’ve encountered an odd encoding issue. Some of my org files include a FILETAGS directive on the first line – e.g., “#+FILETAGS: :work:” I know that beorg doesn’t support this, but it is mainly for use in emacs on my laptop. However, when beorg syncs with a file containing this first line, some of the bytes are translated into an asian-language character set (2 bytes per character, judging by the number of characters). If I then change the file in beorg, it syncs using the UTF-8 version of these characters, which makes the error permanent and visible in emacs as well.

beorg 3.4.0 - The One Which Keeps Your Secrets

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:00:00 +0000

The latest beorg release introduces an encryption extension. You can now encrypt individual tasks/items in beorg to secure confidential information. There are also some great productivity boosters for everyday use.

Encryption

beorg saves everything in plain text files to give you piece of mind that you can get access to what you create now and well into the future. You can choose where in the cloud your data gets synced to - iCloud, Dropbox, Box or your own server. Now you can opt to encrypt individual items so that even if your beorg plain text files somehow got into the wrong hands your confidential information stays only viewable by you.

Choosing a default section for new tasks

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:29:18 +0000

I’d like to organize some of my files into “Tasks”, “Recurring tasks” and a few other sections, but I’d like to have new tasks end up (indented one level) under “Tasks” by default. Is this possible to configure in org-mode/beorg?

Cosmic Fizz, 20 November 2019

You can create a beorg template to do this and add “Tasks” to the subtree section. Currently though you would need to select this template each time - maybe I need to look into being able to select a default template.

Background sync

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 01:48:21 +0000

Hi,

I’m loving beorg and it plays a central role in my task management.

I am using the WebDAV sync method. I have quite some recurring tasks (habits) as part of my daily actions. When ticking off many tasks in a row, this process takes quite some time, as after each state change (from the agenda view) takes a few seconds due to beorg immediately syncing with the WebDAV server and blocking the interface in the mean time.

Repeating task doesn't keep the TODO state

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 10:08:28 +0000

I use number of repeating task for regular actions I need to keep track of. Following GTD methodology my TODO states are not a sequence but denote different contexts.

When marking a repeating task done the new instance receives the first of my TODO states not the one it had before. In Emacs I use the RETURN_TO_STATE Property to achieve this but it seems to be ignored in beorg.

Am I missing a setting or is this a bug?

Other states not supported? Other than TODO or DONE

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:14:53 +0000

e.g. you can put this in the very top of your org file:

#+TODO: TODO IN-PROGRESS WAITING DONE

and when you open in Emacs, now you have 4 states, TODO, IN-PROGRESS, WAITING, and DONE

However, opening the document in beorg only shows TODO and DONE, the two default states.

Likewise, you can put this in your .emacs file:

(setq org-todo-keywords
  '((sequence "TODO" "IN-PROGRESS" "WAITING" "DONE")))

and those four are now the default states for all org files.

beorg 3.0.0

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:13:14 +0000

beorg 3 introduces two new extensions - and a beorg Premium subscription to unlock everything. EXPORT THEMES allows you to choose from three different themes and the ability to define your own using CSS. With TASK TIMERS track how long you spend on tasks, with all timing data recorded in plain text.

beorg Premium is a monthly or annual subscription which unlocks all current and future beorg extensions whilst you remain a subscriber. Try for free with a 7-day trial. beorg is an indie app (it isn’t being developed by large company) and relies on your support via in-app purchases to continue releasing new features.

beorg 3.3.0

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:38:34 +0000

Extensive support for keyboard shortcuts for users of external keyboards.
New Scheme functions item-properties and item-property for searching property drawers.
New Scheme variable badge-filter so you can override the app badge number.
Respect the per-item property LOGGING when set to nil.
Use REPEAT_TO_STATE property when marking a repeating task as DONE.
Fix for templates where double quotes are used.
Formatting of code when viewing library.org improved.
Undated reminders now appear on TODO tab.

beorg 3.3.0 - The Keyboard Release

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 08:00:00 +0000

The big news in beorg 3.3.0 is extensive support for external keyboards. Most functionality in beorg can now be accessed without the need to touch the screen. There also a number of other improvements which we will take a look at.

I’ve marked some sections in this article as Advanced users. If you aren’t familar with scripting in beorg you may want to skip these.

Keyboard shortcuts

An iPad, even the entry level model, can be a productivity powerhouse when combined with an external keyboard. This latest release of beorg contains keyboard shortcuts for almost everything. For example you can now:

Using init.org and Emacs

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:04:07 +0000

How do you keep your init.org modifications in sync with your emacs config? Or is there a way to load init.org into your org files?

Bubble Pixel, 12 November 2019

I think this would be tricky. beorg uses a variant of Scheme rather than Emacs Lisp for the init.org. Also whilst there are some beorg variables which have the same names as the Emacs variables they may not always work in exactly the same way or support the same number of options. beorg doesn’t contain any code from Emacs or Org mode - and I never look at Emacs/Org mode code when implementing features, just the behaviour. One reason for this is that Emacs/Org mode are GPL licensed whereas (at least currently) beorg isn’t free software.

refile todo/subtree to a different location

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:52:51 +0000

I am org mode emacs user, and I would love to see a feature for moving tasks/subtrees to another location (like the org-refile command from emacs org mode).

Such a feature would help following the GTD methology from writing down any task/todo Idea in the inbox file and after reworking moving the task to a specific subtree of another file.

Ideal the menu which appears after pressing on a task a little bit longer could provide a “move” command, which opens a second dialog with the possible subtrees of other files.

TODO items marked DONE but with CLOSED timestamp

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:46:53 +0000

I love the easy TODO/DONE swipe-switching in the TODO view of the app. The drawback is that in beorg when a TODO is converted to DONE, no CLOSED: [timestamp] is inserted, like it would be in Emacs.

Noodle Star, 7 February 2019

+1 for task state change logging, including for repeated tasks.

Sunny Zest, 23 November 2019

@Kevin good points about more general state change logging and repeated tasks.

Noodle Star, 25 April 2019

I’m going to take a look at this relatively soon. I’m probably going to delegate this to a Scheme method and provide a sensible default implementation - then users with a more custom workflow can replace the Scheme implementation with their own as they see fit.

Sample URL callback from Airmail

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:27:47 +0000

Nothing fancy, but here is how I pull messages from Airmail into Beorg. Airmail allows you to get up Custom Actions, including opening a URL. This URL string

beorg://x-callback-url/capture?title=[message_subject]&notes=[message_linkback]&file=inbox

adds an item to Beorg with the subject of the message as a the title and a link to the message as the body.

Happy Juice, 8 November 2019

Very cool, thanks for posting!

Puzzle Widget, 11 November 2019

Agenda View - Changing weeks after search

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:32:52 +0000

On the agenda view I have week arrows so I can navigate forward and backward through my weeks.

However, if I have a Search enabled I cannot scroll back or forward through the weeks.

I do see that if I scroll forward or backward and THEN enable my search I get the search on the right week, but can no longer scroll through the weeks.

The use case is wanting to scroll through meetings that occurred over last few weeks.

Visualize and summarize time logs in a file

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:40:06 +0000

It would be cool to have summaries of the time logs that one clocks as it accumulates over the years.

I have done this before on orgmode by parsing the org file using org-clock-csv.el and then using R to do barplots.

I attach an example PDF that can be generated by parsing the logfile.

Jelly Wonder, 10 November 2019

Shortcut to add item via Siri

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 22:49:35 +0000

This is a bit of a cheat, but I’ve developed a Shortcut that uses Siri to add an item. Actually, it doesn’t add via Beorg, but rather takes advantage of the fact that Beorg files are just plain text. It depends on having your files stored somewhere Siri can write to, e.g., Dropbox. If you ask Siri “Add to Inbox” (or whatever you call it), Siri will ask you “What text?”. When you pause, it will add

TODO Preset Searches

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 22:25:28 +0000

Can these be edited? I have this DEFERm in my presence search list. Not sure how to remove. It is not a saved search and I see no way to clear that out.

Besides the DEFERm. Would love to be able to only use my saved searches and not these preselected?

Any ideas how to get rid of DEFERm that’s there in error? And secondly less important anyway to remove the other preselected options where it only shows my saved searches?

Support Effort Estimates

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 08:55:42 +0000

Related to feature requests around supporting Properties Drawers – it would be awesome if Beorg supported org-mode’s “effort” properties.

Effort is a special property type in org-mode which lets you do things like filter your todo list by effort. E.g. I can create searches like “show me all tasks I can do at work that will take 30 minutes or less.”

Maple Jack, 25 June 2019

Once I’ve got support for property drawers then all kinds of exciting searches will be open to users. Hopefully not too long before I do this.

escaping scheme functions in templates

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:10:05 +0000

When I insert this into the item title of a template, it results on an error when using the template: %(date->string (current-date) “~y”)%

The problem seems to be that the double quote characters surrounding ~y get escaped with \ when the template is saved. Am I doing something wrong?

Happy Glow, 1 November 2019

Thanks for reporting this. I’ve fixed this in the latest code and you’ll see this resolved in the next release.

Zoom - In

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:49:28 +0000

Great work Matthew!!! This app has come along way! Quickly purchased two extensions to show support and to save searches!

Request is for a zoom in feature like in org-mode. My files have alot of hierarchy ( as I’m sure most others do!)

I find on beorg the view screen can really get jammed up if you get a few layers deep.

To zoom in at the sub tree level can make the embedded levels much easier to view.

Is there a way to automatically expand headings when a file is opened?

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:33:44 +0000

Hi all!

First off, let me say that I love beorg. I use it quite a bit to view some of my org files (I have a LOT of them) and it’s great.

I’ve started using the Shortcut mentioned here to capture web pages (I’m trying to cut down on the number of open tabs in Safari and store links where I can actually find them). It works great. I have the subtrees setup as in the example, and all goes well.

beorg 3.2.0

Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:40:40 +0000

This release includes some new features and bug fixes.

You’ll be able to view and manage subitems from the item editor screen - no more unnecessary switching to the outliner.
iOS 13 menus when you long press on items on the agenda and TODO tabs, and files on the Files tab.
Set action and done states from init.org (org-todo-action-keywords and org-todo-done-keywords) for better syncing between devices.
Fix for load-themes not working from init.org.

beorg 3.1.0

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:27:28 +0000

The big news for this update is support for iOS 13 Dark Mode, together with some improvements to the text editor and a few bug fixes and other improvements.

All users on iOS 13 will be able to use the system Dark Mode in beorg 3.1.0. For those users who have purchased the previous dark mode extension you’ll now have access to the legacy dark mode theme and a new theme based on the Solarized color scheme.

Can’t turn off “Found in natural language calendar”

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:19:33 +0000

I’m having a problem figuring out how to prevent beorg from including natural language / Siri suggestions in my agenda.

I have gone into Settings -> Configure Calendars and disabled “Siri Suggestions”, but it doesn’t seem to make any difference. Is there anything else I need to do?

Happy Twist, 26 October 2019

What you’ve done should work. I’ve just added instructions on this as a FAQ https://beorg.app/support/cal_naturallang/

When you made this change you might need to kill beorg and restart it. Please check the instructions I’ve posted in the FAQ. If still having issues please let me know which version of iOS you are on.

iOS reminders in TODOs

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:47:13 +0000

Thank you for this amazing app! This for the first time gives me a chance to my orgmode Setup with iOS reminders and calendars, which I use for quick note taking and syncing calendars/lists across devices and with other people. I love hope calendars and reminder items show up in the agenda view.

Yet I miss my reminder todos in the TODO view in beorg. I would expect it to work great, with reminder lists showing up as individual ‚ files‘ to maintain individual setups. Time reminders show up with a due date/with TODO state, others are regular org items.

Owncloud

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:46:03 +0000

Hello Forum,

has anybody configured beorg with owncloud-sync? what is the webdav url, what is the org-directory and org-files-extension. I tried the url as https://example.org/remote.php/webdav/ and the connection seems to be established, but there is nothing syncing

any ideas?

best,

heinetz

Friendly Dash, 22 October 2019

Do make sure you have a valid (i.e. not self signed) SSL certificate - e.g. from letsencrypt.org.

Puzzle Widget, 25 October 2019

beorg 3.0.1

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 13:21:50 +0000

There were a few bugs which crept into the last release. 3.0.1 should fix the issues with checkboxes, the export themes extension and timers. In 3.0.0 checkboxes were supposed to save their state when you tapped them but often didn’t - and worse the code related to this sometimes caused the app to crash when updating a task. Hopefully all of these issues will be a thing of yesterday with 3.0.0.

beorg 3.1.0 - Dark mode and text editor improvements

Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:00:00 +0000

beorg 3.1.0 is nearly ready for release. The big news for this update is support for iOS 13 Dark Mode, together with some improvements to the text editor, agenda and experimental support for MathJax.

iOS 13 Dark Mode

One of the changes in iOS 13 was for a system wide Dark Mode. Whilst beorg has a dark mode extension this was something specific to beorg and didn’t integrate with iOS 13 Dark Mode.

Option to open links in Safari as opposed to in-app Safari?

Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:16:28 +0000

Hi Matthew,

It would be really useful if links can be opened in the Safari app, rather than being opened in in-app Safari currently, e.g. Twitter links don’t open in in-app Safari as Twitter thinks it’s a bot or something, but Twitter links open fine in the actual Safari app.

Thanks!

Sunny Wonder, 10 June 2019

You can hold down your finger on a link and then choose to open in Safari (or copy the URL, etc).

constant, reproducible crashes in 3.0.0 (136)

Fri, 27 Sep 2019 12:44:15 +0000

Hi Matthew,

I’ve been using beorg for about 1.5 years and I don’t remember ever seeing a crash until the past week or so. Since the very day that the 3.0.0 upgrade was installed, every time I push the “+” (capture) button on the agenda page, the app crashes. Every time I tap on an agenda item to view it, the app crashes. Every time I tap on an item on the todo page, the app crashes. But the files page seems to work normally.

Pomodoro

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:04:47 +0000

Really exciting about 3.0 release to include clocking. I am using org-pomodoro on my Mac, it will be great if beorg can support pomodoro workflow. For example, send notifications when timer is up to X mins, then rest for Y mins.

Velvet Button, 22 September 2019

This workflow isn’t supported at the moment. Will be interesting to see if any other users would also find this useful.

Puzzle Widget, 23 September 2019

[Crash] [3.0.0 (136)] Cannot reschedule some events

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:00:25 +0000

After the new update, I have crashes when trying to reschedule some events from the Agenda tab.

Go to Agenda
Select an event (known to crash)
Schedule it to a different date and
Hit “Save” when the app crashes.

This does not happen with all events but will happen 100% of the time with certain events. They can come from different org files.

Manually editing the file via the “Files” tab does not crash.

Beorg and git

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 18:53:55 +0000

Does anybody use beorg with git (Working Copy)? Do you still sync via another method within beorg or do you only use git? If you use both, what’s your experience so far with syncing issues?

Tango Ribbon, 9 August 2019

I use Working Copy and iCloud sync in Beorg. I have noticed a few syncing issues: after making an edit, the sync progress bar at the top of the interface flashes on and off several times (flashes on/off twice per file, I think?). Making any edits while the sync progress bar is flashing is difficult because the interface interrupts you, and any edits you do manage to make seem to be lost. I’ve found that I need to wait for the sync status indicator to completely settle down before making another edit.

Incorrect repeat date when completing a task before its scheduled time of day

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:44:49 +0000

Consider the following task that repeats every day at 10 p.m.:

* TODO Floss teeth
SCHEDULED: <2019-08-05 Mon 22:00 ++1d>

On Tuesday at 9 p.m., marking this task DONE in Emacs causes the next scheduled time to be Tuesday 10 p.m. In Beorg, the next scheduled time ends up as Wednesday 10 p.m. instead.

Biscuit Pebble, 7 August 2019

Thank you for highlighting this. I’ve updated the logic, which was incorrect, to hopefully handle this correctly. This fix will be in the next release of beorg.

beorg 3.0.0

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 09:00:00 +0000

beorg 3 is an update to the plain text task management app for iPhone and iPad. It introduces a new subscription option to unlock all current and future extensions, new export themes and task timers.

beorg Premium

beorg is free to download and use - certain features are optional extensions. In previous versions of beorg you could unlock individual extensions via an in-app purchase. In beorg 3 you now have the option of monthly and annual subscriptions to unlock all current and future extensions. If you don’t like subscriptions then you can continue to unlock extensions individually.

How to point agenda view at a future date?

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:41:33 +0000

The only way I’ve found to navigate dates in the agenda is by clicking the “move one week” arrows. A common use case is “I need to schedule an appointment 8 months from now, I wonder if I have any conflicts on that date?” – having to click the advance button 35 times is, um, well, you get the idea. I’ve tried using search for the date, but can’t seem to get that to work, which makes sense as I think it’s documented to work only within the current week. Any other way to navigate to future dates?

Basic Support for CJK

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 08:23:39 +0000

Now in beorg we cannot search for Chinese/japanese/korean characters which will only return empty result. Hope for a little improvement here :)

Cosmic Jack, 5 September 2019

beorg only starts searching when three or more characters have been entered. See this entry https://appsonthemove.freshdesk.com/a/forums/ for details on telling beorg to search using fewer characters. If you are still having issues after following this let me know.

Puzzle Widget, 6 September 2019

How to add Subtrees below an entry

Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:21:09 +0000

It wasn’t mentioned on any of the guides I’ve read, but wouldn’t it be great to add a group of default Subtrees under your entry? I’m glad you asked!

As an example of how to do it I created a template to add a book I’m going to read:

Create a template;
Edit the Name and Save To fields (I used ‘Add Book’ and ‘personal’);
Make the Headline for your entry (appropriately it is ‘Title’);

Items with multiple time stamps - Beorg only recognizes the first

Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:26:12 +0000

Hey all! Just realized today with a task where I have two repeating time stamps (something like the following):

* Some task
- <2019-08-21 Wed 13:30-14:40 +1w>
- <2019-08-26 Mon 13:30-14:40 +1w>

that it only recognizes the first timestamp (and doesn’t put the second one on the agenda as it normally would in orgmode. To reproduce, just set a task like this and you should see that it only recognizes the first time stamp.

Indicator for all day appointments that last more than a day

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 10:11:18 +0000

Org mode and Google Calendar support this nicely. For example if you have a calendar event, all-day that lasted for a week. If the app can show: “Event Name (Day 5/7)” meaning, it is day 5 out of the 7 days event.

Hope it make sense. Thank you for considering.

Cherry Button, 17 August 2019

Thanks for the idea - I’ve made a note of this. beorg does support date ranges - although doesn’t currently have a UI for editing these. Your idea would then make it more obvious when an entry in the agenda was part of a date range. I’ve added this to my list of possible future features!

Custome repeat?

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 10:05:46 +0000

Is it possible to have a repeat that is the first Monday of every month? The standard monthly repeat seems to be based on a fixed number of days and therefore the day of the repeat keeps moving.

Rocket Jack, 22 August 2019

This isn’t currently possible. Eventually I want to support the options for Scheme functions as an option for dates (equivalent to diary sexp entries in Emacs) - but with a nice UI wrapper for common use cases such as yours. There isn’t an ETA for this but it is on my radar.

Improved Search UX

Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:33:24 +0000

My comment is partly about priority sorting (as mentioned here), but also in general is about the overall search UX so I started a new topic in the hopes it generates more ideas.

In general I think most of the features for search that I want are there, but they are currently tough to discover. FYI, my notes are based on the iOS version of the app. Obviously I’m just throwing out some UX thoughts based on my other experiences working on search UX (work on search in my day job). I’m sure I haven’t thought of everything, but I hope this helps.

Remember last input after restart

Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:25:57 +0000

I had the case where I entered a task but was interrupted before saving the task. When I reopened the app it wasn’t in memory anymore and my previous input was dropped.

I would wish beorg would remember the input (not saved to a file but e.g. in UserDefaults) and reinstate the task input with the previous input.

Tango Ribbon, 9 August 2019

Thank you for this suggestion. Something I definitely want to get implemented in the near future.

Scheme search for items-tag not working

Thu, 08 Aug 2019 13:30:04 +0000

I have, for example, a tag called “important”.

Ultimately I want to build a more complicated expression excluding tags as illustrated in the Learning section. However, I cannot get the following simple expression to return any results:

(string=? (item-tags item) “important”))

Is this a programming or user error, i.e. I am doing something wrong, or is there a problem with the item-tags function?

Thanks for any help,

Bill Day

Bubble Zest, 5 August 2019

Sorry, I copied the expression improperly. It is not the double parentheses. This does not work:

Overwriting an entry with Template

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 22:51:33 +0000

Currently the documentation says that templates only add entries. Would it be possible to implement the ability to overwrite previous entry of the same name? I’d like to be able to create a shortcut with multiple selections that saves the selected text in the specified area without adding more to it, just that one entry.

Noodle Spark, 3 August 2019

Eventually - yes. The code I’ve written to handle templates can apply a template to an existing node. This will be used to facilitate bulk editing of items in beorg - and could also be exposed to shortcuts. There is no ETA yet but I do hope to offer this ability in a future release.

True black mode

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 00:16:04 +0000

I use an iPhone X and have paid for the dark mode feature in beorg. I would love to see a true black mode to take advantage of the benefits of the OLED screen. I would imagine this wouldn’t be too hard, maybe changing a couple of the colors in the scheme and keeping the rest fairly similar. I love beorg and use it alongside emacs and org mode daily for my task management!

Filenote shortcut

Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:06:22 +0000

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ece189b624f049ed9e7e2ec15abaee9e

For my job I need a record of the time and place I was for each assignment. The easiest way of doing this is to take a photo and use the EXIF data.

It’d be nice to be able to actually embed the photo, but this is the next best thing - it grabs the image title, allowing for matching up later if needed.

This shortcut gets the most recent photo, pulls the image name, date of acquisition and the location data, and prompts for a title and notes field. It then builds a note with that data, with notes sorted by year and month.

beorg 2.15.0

Fri, 26 Jul 2019 09:55:09 +0000

This release has a number of new features.

Reminders support - you can now grant beorg access to show reminders in your agenda, in the same way as you can for calendar events.

Editing reminders/calendar events - you can do some basic editing of your reminders and calendar events. The editing includes updating the title, date/time (only start date - for calendar events the duration is kept), notes and deletion.

DEADLINE format like <2019-07-26 Fri 6:00pm +1m> not supported

Thu, 25 Jul 2019 09:07:30 +0000

As title said, the format DEADLINE: <2019-07-26 Fri 18:00 +1m> is supported, but 6:00pm not supported.

Beorg 1.15.0(129)

Apple Giggle, 23 July 2019

Looks like the date/time picker shows 6:00pm, but saves in 24h format. Probably for ease of comparison.

Noodle Spark, 24 July 2019

I think so, I saved that in Emacs, Emacs support that format.

Apple Giggle, 24 July 2019

To be honest I didn’t realise that Org mode supported non 24-clock format. Are you using a custom time format or does this work out of the box?

Sync with Secure ShellFish (via Files app)

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 06:25:11 +0000

I’d like to see support for the Files app, which would allow an easier use of plugin apps like Secure ShellFish for syncing using SSH / SFTP.

Noodle Spark, 18 July 2019

I do eventually plan on offering a sync option to use a directory selected by the Files app. However if you use beorg with iCloud sync then you should be able to access the beorg directory from other apps which support Files, I imagine this would include Secure ShellFish (although I haven’t used that before).

How can I specify a file view in init?

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 12:11:43 +0000

I want to open a file, say, it’s “DIARY”.

I COULD set init as :

(set! ui-start-tab "Files")

and it worked.

But when I modified it as:

(set! ui-start-tab "DIARY")

(set! ui-start-file "Files")

it didn’t work.

My Questions are as below:

How can I open a specific file as the default view?
How can I obtain the list of Scheme pre-defined-variables? Is there any REPL help command?
Would you please put the Scheme/REPL part of document on the WEB?

Thank you very much!!!

Collapsible tasks in Todo view

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:35:14 +0000

At the moment, only the Files view supports collapsible hierarchies of tasks. It would be great if the Todo view also supported that. I find myself flipping between them constantly because Files looks nicer with hierarchy and highlighted states, but Todo is nicer to operate in with tasks.

Pepper Button, 16 July 2019

I do have some thoughts on allowing users to view children via the full screen item view, however haven’t yet fully fleshed these out.

Calendar item?

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:40:38 +0000

Found an item that only showed up today (see attachments) which can not be found in the native Calendar app (not in Reminders app either).

Since I didn’t see it yesterday why did it appear now for a “Museum” entry that I would not have used. Been a decade since I last visited one.

Only appears in the Agenda screen.

Noodle Spark, 11 July 2019

These are created automatically by iOS and can be turned off in the Calendar settings. Unfortunately beorg doesn’t have any control over them and this special calendar doesn’t make itself available for hiding.

Saving older versions of org-files

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:52:48 +0000

In Beorg you can either “revert” or “view” older versions of org-files.

I would like the possibility to “save” older versions.

In case of sync conflicts, I can then save the Beorg-version and use “ediff” in emacs to stitch the two conflicted versions together.

Banana Moon, 10 June 2019

Thank you for this suggestion. I’ve made a note of this and will review for a future update.

You can view the full text of a file when viewing a version however copying anything more than a small amount of a large file is a pain as selecting text is tricky.

Repeating task problem

Mon, 08 Jul 2019 20:53:10 +0000

I tried to create a repeating task for every day with the following:

‘* TODO Exercise :Fitness: <2019-07-08 Mon +1d>‘

Unfortunately on the current week I created it in doesn’t appear on Sunday (see first attached image), and the following weeks it doesn’t appear on Saturday or Sunday (see second attached image) in the Agenda window.

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

Noodle Spark, 8 July 2019

That is a bug. Thank you for notifying this to me. It was a line of code which limited retrieving a maximum of 5 instances of a repeated item when constructing the agenda for the week, which of course isn’t enough if there is one instance every day. I’ve fixed this in my code and you’ll see a fix for this in the next update.

Fail to download externally updated file with WebDAV

Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:46:43 +0000

First of all, thanks you so much for the awesome app!

I’ve been trying to setup a WebDAV sync for my org files. The upload works fine. I created a new file on beorg, add a new dummy todo item, and after clicking sync, the new file shows up on my server. But when I change the file on the server side, Beorg failed to download it. I presume that being able to upload the file means the WebDAV setup on my server works fine (password, ssl cred, path, etc)

New Note from beorg template doesn’t scroll if you go past the initial capture frame

Fri, 05 Jul 2019 15:48:47 +0000

I created a very basic template to capture freeform notes. I set it to “Edit Notes Immediately”. I trigger it via the up swipe on the “+” button.

When I enter enough text to exceed the initial window height, the app does not scroll as expected. The characters typed continue to be captured but the text is out of view. This should be easy to replicate.

I am on iOS 12.3.1 with beorg 2.15.0 (129) using iCloud as my sync source. Let me know if there is more information you need to replicate this.

refile functionality?

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 11:55:23 +0000

Hi beorg and users,

I downloaded the App and donated. I’m a Emacs user so this is the exciting solution to be ORGanized!!!

I have a question: Do you have refile functionality after the task state change?

My hope is:

to create the file TODO, DOING, and DONE
if you did the task, then TODO item would be removed and the DONE would be logged in the DONE file
if you start the task, then TODO item would be refiled to the DOING and the starting would be logged in the DONE file too
if you added the journal, DONE would be fixed

So you got:

crashes on iOS 13 and iPad OS

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 09:28:46 +0000

Hi,

beorg dies instantly after starting it on iOS 13 (iPhon X) and iPad OS (iPad mini).

That’s what Betas are for ;-)

Best regards and keep up the good work!

Sunny Wonder, 29 June 2019

I hope to have an update on the App Store this week with this fix - in addition to basic support for reminders and editing of reminders and calendar events from within beorg.

beorg extensions

Fri, 28 Jun 2019 10:00:00 +0000

beorg is free to download and most functionality is available to you without requiring any of your money. beorg is developed by just one person and I have a long list of new features I would love to add.

As with many indie developers¹ I develop apps for other companies in addition to my own. Whilst I get to work on many exciting projects for third parties I want to spend more time on my ideas. If you are a beorg user then probably you want this as well! beorg has lots of enthusiastic users, but is a long way from being able to pay my mortgage and support my family on its own.

Difficult: Syncing Contacts

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:14:42 +0000

This is a difficult request that might be worthy of a separate program, but it would make BeOrg a backup for iOS Contacts!

If BeOrg could have a Contacts Import button and a Contacts Export button, that would be outstanding. The buttons would do the following:

The Import button would read the iOS Contacts and overwrite the default-contacts-file with an org-contacts style form of each contact.
The Export button would read the default-contacts-file and overwrite the iOS Contacts DB with the translated contacts.

Issues:

Ability to create own preview styling

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:27:04 +0000

Preview is good to have, but would be much better if I could edit how the markup is displayed. Even better would be the ability to have more than one preview style for different situations. Similar to Ulysses stylesheet selection.

Cosmic Moon, 18 May 2019

This is on my list of future features. I plan on having a number of styles supplied and the ability to define a custom style. The preview uses HTML so this would be done using CSS. I would likely have additional styles as an in-app purchase - but with the option for custom styles to be defined by modifying the init.org available to all.

Password Protection

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 10:23:26 +0000

Since (business) orgfiles may potentially contain sensitive data, it would be nice to be able to add additional password (perhaps also touch id/face id) protection to the app.

Many thanks for the continuous work and consideration.

Lemon Twist, 14 March 2019

I have been thinking about this. One argument against is that if your iPhone/iPad is locked then an unauthorised user can’t gain access to any of your apps. So the use case for this would be when you’ve unlocked your device and handed it to someone else to look at something specific, but then they happen to gain access to an app you don’t want them to. If you could provide some more detail about your particular use case that would be helpful.

Documentation error

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 10:21:36 +0000

Section “4.3.3.1 Alerts” in Scripting Help says “It takes one argument” when in the script in the next section has two:

(alert "" “No text is selected.”)

Noodle Spark, 22 June 2019

Thank you for highlighting this. I’ve updated the documentation file and this will be fixed in the upcoming release.

Puzzle Widget, 24 June 2019

Changing Swipe Right/Left behavior of TODO items

Fri, 21 Jun 2019 10:14:21 +0000

Hi,

I believe swipe right is more intuitive behavior for a task to be marked as DONE/WAITING etc. instead of left swipe. This is the usual way for the most TODO applications of the market. Is it possible to change it using Scheme?

Thanks,

Apple Sprout, 20 June 2019

This isn’t possible to be customised in Scheme. I’ll take a look at some other apps and see whether it makes sense to change beorg. Thanks for pointing this out.

URL Scheme Edit Tasks

Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:37:23 +0000

Any plans to add the ability to modify tasks via URL Scheme? Specifically, being able to change states or modify task notes would be useful. Thanks!

Sunny Zest, 16 June 2019

Eventually yes. The minor tricky bit is referring to tasks without introducing a unique identifier which beorg adds to tasks - which would make for messier Org files and not something I really want to do. If you have any thoughts on this please add to this topic.

Save active tab on restore

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 09:14:45 +0000

Now if I open app in some time it resets active tab to agenda. But as for me I’d almost don’t use it at all. All of my use cases are spreading between files and todos tabs. So now I used to tap on one of them on mostly every app opens to switch from agenda. It’ll be cool if I’d not do this.

Merry Pixel, 30 May 2019

You can set the tab to open by default. If you haven’t used the beorg init.org before see https://beorg.app/learning/excluding-tasks-from-specific-files-for-the-agenda-and-todo-lists/. Then in your init.org add (substitute todo for files if wanted):

Indentation and colour

Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:25:14 +0000

Hello,

First of all. Thank you for this app! All I can say is: at last someone did it :)

I have and will continue to support development using tips.

Now, a couple of requests to consider:

Could we have correct indentation of sub trees? It is a bit confusing.
Could we have color coding of headings depending on the level.

You are probably aware of these already but I didn’t see a request so I thought I will make it official.

beorg 2.14.2

Fri, 07 Jun 2019 09:14:43 +0000

Just one change in this release - a fix for searching using Scheme expressions which was causing a crash for some users.

Puzzle Widget, 7 June 2019

Support files synchronization with github?

Tue, 04 Jun 2019 07:15:30 +0000

Hello,

Thank you for the beorg! It is an awesome tool!

It would be nice to have an ability to sync with some github.com repo directory.

Before beorg I used my private github repository to keep my org files.

Now I’m using ownclound, but github was easier to use.

Thanks

Pepper Ribbon, 31 May 2019

You can use Working Copy for this by setting up (in Working Copy) a “synced directory” and choosing the beorg directory in iCloud Drive.

Files without contents on Beorg

Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:39:10 +0000

The files appears on the list, the date modified too, right. But when I go to open them some are empty.

Maybe I have to close my Aquamacs on desktop?

I am using emacs Aquamacs on a Mac.

Anyway your app is fantastic and I really want to use it.

Paolo

Sunny Pixel, 1 June 2019

(I’ve replied to this as a ticket, for other forum users reference here is what I said…)

Sharing an org File

Fri, 31 May 2019 13:58:06 +0000

I’m working on a project with a collaborator and would like to be able to share one, but not all of my org files with him. However, all of my org files seem to need to be in a single directory in my Dropbox and I can’t see how to share the file for editing without sharing the directory. It would be helpful if one could specify more than one directory to scan for org files.

How to search all of my org files for a string appearing in an ordinary list?

Thu, 30 May 2019 08:04:20 +0000

I’ve pasted in below a (perhaps too long) snippet of one of my org-mode files (named “personal”), intended to store personal reference data. In real life it has many top-level headings, but I’ve kept for illustration parts of the “Alfie” (dog) and “books” trees.

Suppose I want to remember which volumes of TAOCP I own and whether they are at home or at work. I’d like to be able to search for “knuth” (case-insensitive) and have beorg open up the file “personal.org” and then show me the “*** above desk - 2nd shelf (left)” heading (which is a sub heading of “** office bookshelf contents”, which itself is a sub heading of “* books”) and put the cursor on the unordered plain list item “- Knuth / Fundamental Algorithms TAOCP”. There may or may not be highlighting of matched words, and there may or may not be a button to jump ahead to the next match (which may be in the same file or a different one). It’s OK with me if it just jumps to the first match if I’m not specific enough.

Notifications don't take me to the task that was the reason of the notification

Thu, 23 May 2019 08:56:10 +0000

If I open a notification I expect to land within the task that was the reason for the notification but I land in the app in general. Is that the wanted behaviour?

Doodle Ribbon, 21 May 2019

This isn’t implemented yet, partly because it isn’t necessarily straightforward to do this reliably. I hope to add support for this, potentially with the an optional automatically assigned custom ID to scheduled items, in the future.

beorg 2.14.1

Wed, 22 May 2019 15:01:31 +0000

This beorg update has the following changes, mainly aimed at more advanced users:

You can now provide a template specifier when using the URL scheme. Great for advanced workflows, you do things such as tell beorg where to file items added using the URL scheme.
Repeat modifiers can be provided in the template data syntax.
Repeated items now log state changes.
Quick access to your top templates via 3D touch on the app icon.

Change editor font to fixed width

Mon, 20 May 2019 13:45:28 +0000

I use a lot of tables and they don’t edit well with the current font. Is it possible to have an option for a fixed width font please?

Cosmic Moon, 17 May 2019

The editor font defaults to Menlo which is a fixed width font. Often the issue is that tables are too wide for iPhone screen so the lines wrap causing the tables to become difficult to edit. Could you provide a screenshot?

Resilio Syn

Tue, 14 May 2019 15:52:23 +0000

Hi,

Is it possible to use Resilio (BitTorrent) for syncing? If so, how? I‘d imagine I would just need to point beorg to my local (on my iPhone) Resilio Sync folder but couldn’t figure it out yet.

Thanks.

Happy Twist, 10 May 2019

Hello. I haven’t heard of Resilio sync - sounds like an interesting solution! I hope to add support for pointing Resilio sync at locations available via the Files provider in a future version, however isn’t currently supported. Does Resilio sync support appearing in the Files app?

repeating dates in templates

Mon, 13 May 2019 09:14:41 +0000

There doesn’t appear to be a way to set repeating dates in templates. e.g. I can use the usual syntax to specify the relative date, but I can’t figure out how to make to repeat daily, for instance.

Thanks for you hard work.

Lemon Jumble, 5 May 2019

This isn’t currently possible. Can you give some more details as to your use case so I can evaluate whether this should be added. Thanks!

Support for Tresorit

Fri, 10 May 2019 10:20:16 +0000

Hi, For privacy reasons I would love to be possible to save my files using the cloud service Tresorit instead of Dropbox. Is it possible?

Happy Wonder, 9 May 2019

I’m a BeOrg user and a Tresorit user too, but I don’t think it can be an option because Tresorit doesn’t have APIs.

Sunny Wonder, 9 May 2019

Yes - it doesn’t look as though there is an API available. There look to have an iOS library that was discontinued back in 2018, but I don’t think it offered that same sort of control you get with Dropbox, Box or WebDAV.

beorg 2.14.0

Wed, 08 May 2019 09:46:39 +0000

This release adds a couple of handy new features. First up is that a CLOSED date is added to completed items - this allows you to track when you finished tasks. Secondly is the ability to add quick notes to items. Swipe from right-to-left on an item on the Agenda or TODO tab to bring up the task states (TODO, DONE, etc). At the top is a new option “Add Note…”. This will open the text editor and then add whatever you entered as a note inside the item. This works great for recording progress on particular tasks.

beorg 2.14.0

Wed, 08 May 2019 08:00:00 +0000

beorg 2.14.0 is now available. It adds support for a CLOSED date when items are completed, and quickly adding notes to items. There are also a few bugs fixes.

Download beorg

CLOSED dates

beorg has support for a number of types of dates - SCHEDULED, DEADLINE and ‘show on’ dates. What beorg didn’t do was keep a record of when you completed an item. With beorg 2.14.0 a CLOSED date is added when an item is marked as completed. You can see this when you view the notes for an item.

show line for current time in agenda, similar to emacs org agenda

Tue, 07 May 2019 16:16:07 +0000

So that I understand what is the next calendar entry / task.

On the same lines, can we grey out older entries than right now (like yesterday’s tasks, today’s tasks before now)?

Sunny Wonder, 12 April 2019

Completed tasks become greyed out, however tasks which are still in a TODO state will remain in the agenda.

beorg doesn’t necessarily understand the concept of a next task. You could add a NEXT todo state and update tasks as you complete them and change the state manually.

bookmark function?

Tue, 07 May 2019 11:35:57 +0000

Hi!

thanks so much for your epic work on beorg!

was wondering if one could ask for a request to have bookmark function to a specific orgfile+header? i know you can pin notes but sometimes you want to quick reach a sub header somewhere

best

Noodle Sprout, 20 March 2019

Thank you for your suggestion.

You could do something similar to this now by:

Creating a saved search for items tagged with Bookmark (or any other tag of your choosing) and then selecting the Bookmarks saved search on the Filter menu on the TODO tab.
Alternatively you could create a file which contains your bookmarks and then add links such as [[reading::Current Books][Current books I’m reading]]. Such a link will open the file reading and highlight the item matching Current Books and unfold it.

One of the next features I want to work on is a customisable dashboard for beorg. This would be shown when the app opens and you could configure it, for example, to show today’s tasks, lists of tasks matching a search, list of pinned files, etc. With this bookmarks could be listed using a saved search for items tagged with “Bookmark” or similar. That would make bookmarks quickly accessible from within the first screen of the app.

can't get capture URL Scheme to work with templates via siri shortcuts

Tue, 07 May 2019 09:43:57 +0000

hi again

I can’t seem to get capture URL Scheme to work with templates via siri shortcuts

I have this url scheme:

beorg://x-callback-url/capture?file=TravelV3.org&template=Freview

yet i get a error when i launch it

“the operation couldn’t be completed”

i have a TravelV3.org file in my files and a template named Freview

any ideas?

best

Noodle Sprout, 5 May 2019

Where are you seeing the “operation couldn’t be completed”? If you could attach screenshots to illustrate your issue, thanks!

can't get the capture URL Scheme template to work

Tue, 07 May 2019 09:42:03 +0000

Hi again

so i’m trying to use the capture URL Scheme template to work with no success via siri shortcuts

currently i have this url:

beorg://x-callback-url/capture?file=TravelV3.org&template=Freview

i have a TravelV3.org file in my beorg files and a Freview template

this give me an error with

“the operation couldn’t be completed”

any clue what i’m doing wrong?

best

Noodle Sprout, 5 May 2019

Where are you seeing the “operation couldn’t be completed”? If you could attach screenshots to illustrate your issue, thanks!

Do searches only work for scheduled items?

Mon, 06 May 2019 23:15:59 +0000

I have a bunch of TODO items, tagged with IMPORTANT. They are not necessarily scheduled, but they do require my focus. However when I search for them they don’t appear. Is that because they need to be scheduled?

Mango Comet, 25 April 2019

Search from the TODO tab should show all items - on the agenda will only show those that are scheduled in the next six months.

Puzzle Widget, 6 May 2019

Thanks I found it!

cannot pin files whose name contains a space or a special character

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 09:35:44 +0000

Everything is in the title. I can pin them but in the pin section I see a blank line and I cannot access to the pinned note. See an example in the picture.

The special characters I am talking about seem to be accentuated characters:

é è à for me.

If you are wondering why I put accents and spaces in my file names, it is related to the fact that I use deft as a note manager in emacs: the title of the note is the file name.

Search function on Files

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 20:26:46 +0000

Ever since I have been using Org and BeOrg, the amount of .org files has been increasing and now I need to scroll up and down to find the file I want on the app. It would be great if there is a search function that finds the file I want faster.

Thanks in advance, and as always keep up the good work! :)

Noodle Widget, 16 March 2019

This is on my list of future features to implement. I personally also want this feature - I’ve got 54 files (although I think some need culling!)

control which scheduled agenda items generate notification beeps

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:38:47 +0000

Is it possible (or possible in future) to set some sort of lisp variable (or item property) to prevent certain agenda items from generating a notification beep?

In my current use case, it would be helpful to do something like

(set! agenda-nonotify-files ‘(“my_wifes_exported_calendar.org”))

so that I can see these events on the agenda but not be beeped about them. (I do want to be beeped about other scheduled events on the agenda.)

beorg 2.13.0

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 21:57:47 +0000

This beorg update has some improvements to the Files tab. You can now sort files by name or last modified (if you like to see the most recently changed files listed first). If you have lots of files in beorg you’ll be very excited that you can now filter the list of files to more quickly find the one you want.

In addition to the changes to the Files tab, this release now handles multiple repeating dates on a single task and fixes a few minor bugs tripping up some users.

Calendar : don’t show declined events

Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:07:13 +0000

Can we please not show declined events from displayed calendars? It clutters the agenda.

Sunny Wonder, 12 April 2019

Thank you for this suggestion. I will look to implement this in a future update.

Puzzle Widget, 26 April 2019

Dropbox file permissions ?

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 21:43:57 +0000

Not sure, but I think that BeOrg is saving files with permission 0700 (rwx for owner) to Dropbox. I tend to use 0644 (rw for owner, r for others), but I can be convinced of other ideas. I noticed that my Org files when rsynced to Dropbox as 0644 and then read&save by BeOrg were coming back as 0700. Is what I’m seeing true? Not a big deal – I suppose I could fix this up by my rsync script to reset the permissions on syncing down to my machine…

Any plans to add custom filters to quick access?

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 17:45:30 +0000

By quick access i mean the menu that you can see when you force push the app’s icon on the main screen, currently i have the “Share Beorg” and “Quick Capture”. Introduced custom templates are so much more powerful and faster then the quick capture option, do you consider adding those (or the most used one) to the quick access menu? Not sure if dynamic options something you can add to that menu though.

beorg 2.12.1

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 11:06:16 +0000

(I’m posting this a few days ahead of the release of 2.12.1 so don’t worry if you can’t yet see it on the App Store!)

Hello you productive people! Today’s update fixes a few bugs and gives advanced users a way to customize both the text editor colors and the main beorg UI color scheme itself. I’ve added to the “How to Articles” on the beorg website giving you all the details - and an example of applying the lovely Solarized color scheme to beorg. Check it out at beorg.app/learning/custom-colors/.

beorg 2.12.0

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 21:27:38 +0000

Searching in beorg is now even easier. Narrowing a search by tags, todo status, priority, etc is now super quick using the search toolbar. Simply tap the toolbar actions to add to your search.

If you are a fan of the Shortcuts app then the URL scheme search action will allow for even more powerful workflows using beorg. Pass a search via the beorg URL and get back lists of matching items which you can process in a Shortcut.

editor-font colour and outliner-notes-color

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:36:06 +0000

hi Matt,

I went through library.org for the built-in beorg functions and variables and we do have the variable for editor-font but not the colour. I would like to change the colour of the editor font.

Next, currently we have outliner-notes-color variable left empty for using the colour from theme. And I would like to change it to the colour of the sync botton colour in the app. What is the hex code for it?

Dropbox syncing best practice

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:07:51 +0000

Hi there,

I’m really liking beorg so far. Thanks for the efforts!

I am using Dropbox as the sync backend, so I can sync up with my Linux laptop. I’d like to find out what people think is the best way to set things up to ensure a smooth experience with as few as possible opportunities for conflicts. I’m mainly worried about loss of items/text if I’m working across both devices.

Setting files fitler

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:00:15 +0000

Hi!

As far as i understand i can configure agenda-exclude-files and todo-exclude-files via init.org. Locally i have a bunch of org files starting with _ that i don’t want to see in my agenda buffer, is there any way i can do the same with Scheme? Either via regexp or get the list of files and ignore those that start with _? In Emacs i use the following:

org-agenda-files (f-files “~/Sandbox/org”

Comments ignored some places but not others

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 09:32:01 +0000

I have old times on a event commented out. They don’t show up under notes until I hit edit, but they’re used for the timestamp of the event. It would be nice if the timestamp peeing correctly skipped over comments.

Thanks!

Rocket Jack, 1 March 2019

s/peeing/parsing/, thanks autocorrect

Rocket Jack, 1 March 2019

Could you provide an example snippet from your Org file so I can look into this. Thanks!

support custom TODO states from org

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:31:00 +0000

Would it be possible to support some custom TODO states?

so if the file has this

#+TODO: TOVISIT(v) |  ✔

berog will allow me to use ✔ as DONE?

thx alot!

Noodle Sprout, 20 March 2019

haha never mind found out its possible via settings

not to self: next time read EVERY line in the manual :D

Noodle Sprout, 20 March 2019

Set state from lock screen

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:55:37 +0000

It would be nice if I could choose a state from the lock screen when I get a reminder. Like how you can “mark as done” in the iOS reminder app

Plum Button, 18 March 2019

Thank you for the suggestion. This is something most users would expect so I need to get round to implementing this!

Puzzle Widget, 18 March 2019

Connection to iOS Reminders ?

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:52:35 +0000

Here’s my use case:

I have a family who share iPhones with me, but are not particularly computer literate. I’ve begun using OrgMode to develop a complete family database of all things that we are doing - past, present, and future. Nice for creating a website or PDF or just managing tasks. BeOrg is a great tool for me to manage this while I’m out and about, but BeOrg is only on my iPhone and I don’t think they will understand it. Therefore, I’d like to connect Org to iOS Reminders to kind of connect the two.

Hey Siri, show me my project in BeOrg

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:37:05 +0000

In order to quickly review a project, it would be nice to call up the project via Siri. I imagine this could be done by adding a SIRI_NAME property to each project (it will need guidelines on acceptable names) similar to CUSTOM_ID that BeOrg could search for in its initial scan of the Org files. Then, when asked for the project, BeOrg would show the file that the project is in narrowed to the project with subheaders closed (let the user decide what he’s looking for). I would say to use the CUSTOM_ID property that is for hyperlinks for this, but that has to be one word and I tend to think it won’t be an English word that Siri will be able to recognize.

Ability to disable file deletes

Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:33:56 +0000

As a person that’s using beorg for GTD (which works great), I don’t need or want the ability to delete files from the phone. For me, that feature is 100% risk and 0% reward. I would be a disaster for months if I accidentally deleted my main task list.

I’d like (love!) to be able to turn off the ability to delete files from beorg, either on a file-by-file basis or globally.

Different colour of the tab in TODO

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:19:33 +0000

It’s not a huge issue but I noticed that there’s a slight colour difference on “Everything/Imcomplete” in TODO as shown in the screenshot.

The difference only appears in the first instance and changes back to the normal colour after interacting with the app.

Noodle Widget, 21 December 2018

I’ll get this fixed in the next release. Thanks for reporting!

Puzzle Widget, 30 January 2019

I know its a minor bug but it gets me every single time I open the app and it hasn’t been fixed yet.

beorg 2.11.2

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:00:35 +0000

Hello beorg-ers! This release contains a few minor enhancements and a bug fix.

Many of you have been asking for tag inheritance to be implemented. In 2.11.2 you’ll find that search using tags takes into account an item’s ancestor tags - for example if the item “Buy sun tan cream” has a parent “Holiday packing” with the tag “Holiday” then a search “t holiday” will return both “Holiday packing” and “Buy sun tan cream”. If you use Scheme searches you’ll need to switch to use item-all-tags to include inherited tags - there are separate Scheme methods to get tags specific to the item, and also the inherited tags.

Send to Beorg from News app

Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:55:15 +0000

Hi there!

I am greatly pleased to see that I can capture Safari URLs as tasks to Beorg, but I was wondering if you could implement that in News app as well? I know that I can send to safari in news and open it later to make a task, but I’m just hoping that it is possible to just do it directly?

Thanks! Love your app. It’s fantastic and what sold me on being an Org user all the way. 

Tag inheritance

Mon, 11 Mar 2019 11:26:00 +0000

As far as I can tell, tag inheritance is not currently supported. Is there a way this can be achieved via Scheme functions? If not, this would be a useful feature to implement.

Apple Pebble, 28 February 2019

You are right in that tag inheritance isn’t currently supported. It is on the roadmap - particularly as it isn’t a complex feature to implement. I hope to include this fairly soon.

Priorities need to be settable

Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:51:35 +0000

Org allows you to set a wider range of priorities – so should BeOrg. I find the usual 3 priorities (A, B, & C) to be too restrictive and generally increase to A-E, but I could see people wanting even more flexibility – even on a per-file basis. Can you do something about that?

Doodle Cloud, 4 February 2019

Yes, sounds like a good idea. The current range of A - F was a little arbitrary. I will look to allow users to customise this via a Scheme variable whilst keeping the current default for most users.

beorg 2.11.0/2.11.1

Fri, 08 Mar 2019 09:13:52 +0000

2.11.1 contains a fix affecting new users who choose to use Dropbox sync. Meanwhile here are the release notes for what is new and exciting in 2.11:

The big new feature in this release is templates. Journaling, daily reviews, high priority tasks for tomorrow - just a few ideas for how templates make beorg even more useful. A beorg template can automatically fill in an item title, notes, assign a state, priority, dates - and even save the new item to a specific place in a file. You can create two templates for free - for unlimited template creation there is an in-app purchase.

10 reasons to try a different kind of iOS task management app

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 08:00:00 +0000

There are many to-do list and task management apps for the iPhone and iPad. It can take time to find the right one for you. If you are looking for an app which offers a powerful approach to task management you should check out beorg. Here are ten reasons why it might be the app you are looking for:

Choose where to sync your data - iCloud, Dropbox, Box or WebDAV. WebDAV allows you to use your own web server if you prefer not to use third party cloud services.
Organise your tasks and projects into different files - keep areas of your life separate.
beorg files are outlines - arrange subtasks into hierarchies as complex as your needs.
Assign multiple dates to tasks - for scheduling, deadlines and reminders in your agenda.
Tasks aren’t just todo or done - create multiple todo and done states. For example use IN-PROGRESS to show a task has been started and WAITING when a task is blocked.
Weekly agenda and todo list views - both of which offer custom filters. Save agenda and todo list searches for quick access to common views.
Export outlines to PDF or for printing - a simple text formatting syntax is used to write documents in beorg.
Free download - with a small number of features available as one off in-app purchases (dark mode, Box sync, saves searches and - coming soon - templates)
Future proof plain text - you can open beorg files in any text editor.
File format is based on Org mode - understood by many other apps. Emacs on macOS/Windows/Linux, Orgzly on Android and most text editors (Atom, ViM, Visual Studio Code, …)

Get started with beorg for free - download now

Bug in notifications of hyperlinks

Mon, 25 Feb 2019 12:20:51 +0000

When I create an Org file for a major project, one section is my “Contacts” header under which I put a header for each contact along with any info about the contact. Then, throughout the rest of the project file, I can refer back to the contact by an internal hyperlink of the form [[#my_id][name]]. When I do that in a TODO header that displays well in BeOrg, but doesn’t display well when BeOrg notifies me of the TODO at the (say) SCHEDULEd time in an iOS popup. Basically, the popup will strip the “[[” and the “]]” and display the rest of the header. That looks strange. My suggestion is:

Some setting should be shared across computers

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:16:06 +0000

If I change TODO action states on one computer, I believe it should sync those across other computers that are sharing the same sync files.

For instance I added INPROCESS and WAITING on my iPhone, but when I went to my iPad, those weren’t there, so any task that I had marked as one of those wouldn’t show up in the TODO pane on the iPad – without any warning.

TODO pane should allow sorting by priorities

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:10:07 +0000

It would be nice if the TODO pane had an option that would sort TODOs by priority. This is especially true when I’ve got TODOs from multiple files all being shown, but even within a single file, it would be nice to have all the high priority TODOs be at the top of the page, followed by next lower priority, etc.

Puzzle Moon, 18 February 2019

My aim is to extend the current search implementation to allow users to specify order and grouping. This would allow you to do things such as show all high priority TODOs ordered by date and grouped into months - so you can see for each month what the high priority items are. More simply this would allow you to order by priority, etc. A default order and grouping for the TODO tab would then order by priority, date, etc and grouped by file to improve on the current view in that tab.

How do I create a filter for tags?

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:17:28 +0000

Here’s what I’ve been using when trying to create a filter for tags:

(filter-add "Project" (lambda (item) (string=? (item-tags item) "project")))

I’m not the best at scheme - but I feel like I’m doing something wrong here? The tag shows up in the list but it doesn’t work. Could it be that item-tags returns a list? Should I be using memq “project” to search through the list?

Thanks for your work on the app by the way! This app is amazing and everything I could have asked for (and more) in an iPhone app for org files.

If you miss "0" before hour timestamp beorg does not show the headline in the agenda

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:11:56 +0000

If a headline has timestamp like

<2019-02-16 Sat 8:00-11:00>

beorg does not show it on the agenda view (while Emacs does ). The time format should be in HH:MM format to be recognized beorg:

<2019-02-16 Sat 08:00-11:00>

PS. It seems the Org date format is “inspired” by the standard ISO 8601 date/time format, which requires a two-digit number for the hour.

Jelly Moon, 16 February 2019

Thanks for pointing this out. I’ll see if I can make beorg a little more flexible for reading timestamps without the leading 0.

Capture from Siri shortcut

Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:33:14 +0000

It would be super cool to be able to pipe data into beorg via Siri shortcuts.

For example, one could create a flow that collects various health data points from the health app, then send it straight to an org entry.

Cherry Cloud, 14 February 2019

beorg does have a URL scheme supporting the x-callback-url style - so you can create a Shortcut which will append an item to a particular file.

Nothing happens when I mark repeated task as DONE?

Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:32:06 +0000

Say I have a scheduled repeating task

* TODO Go outside                                                               :HABIT:
DEADLINE: <2019-02-09 Sat 21:00 +1d>
<2019-02-09 Sat 09:00 +1d>
SCHEDULED: <2019-02-09 Sat 09:00 +1d>
[2019-02-09 Sat 12:38]

Nothing happens when I go to beorg swipe left and mark DONE, the entry looks exactly the same and beorg still puts it under todo

I’d expect it to do the same as C-c C-t in emacs? If I mark it DONE in emacs, beorg correctly interprets it and removes the entry from today

beorg 2.10

Fri, 08 Feb 2019 10:06:39 +0000

beorg 2.10.0 introduces a new app icon, and improvements to search in the agenda. If beorg has improved your productivity, please leave a review! beorg is a free app - show your support by purchasing a beorg extension or leaving an in-app tip. If you have any questions or suggestions get in touch on the forum at beorg.app or on Twitter @beorgapp

Bye bye stars and hello to the tick. This release features an all new app icon. For anyone left wondering what sort of app beorg was, the new app icon should sort you out. Whilst the stars meant something to Org mode users they didn’t to anyone else looking for a great plain text task manager.

lower levels visible in TODO items

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 23:34:11 +0000

When previewing TODO view items, only the top-level header and its contents are visible. That is, lower-level subsections (and there headings) are missing. This limits usable TODO items to be tree leaves (such that there are no lower-level branches).

Please make lower-level headers and their contents visible!

I’m not sure if this is a feature request or a bug report, but the app is functional without it, so I went with feature request.

File editing save issues

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 23:24:18 +0000

This is probably a bug and a feature request. When editing an org file directly, sometimes, when switching apps and some time has lapsed, the latest edits added in the editor disappear. Other times it seems to auto-save/sync.

It would be best if that never happened, though obviously, but I would add that a “save/sync” button in the editor would be nice. Right now you have to leave the file to get back to a higher level in the app in order to save/sync.

Git as backend

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 19:11:31 +0000

Hello Matthew,

Would you consider a git repository as a “sync method”?

Thanks!

Friendly Widget, 6 February 2019

It is possible to use Working Copy to manage files in git for beorg. If you set up beorg to use iCloud Sync and then setup Working Copy to use a “synced directory”. You would need to remember to go into Working Copy to commit/push/pull but otherwise should be a workable solution.

Sync via git

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:06:31 +0000

It would be great if we could sync the files via git. That would also allow them to be merged. If git could not be integrated directly, integration with file-locations would be great because then we could use apps like WorkingCopy to sync them https://workingcopyapp.com Textastic has for example direct integration of WorkingCopy in itself. The WorkingCopy-dev is usually helpful in that regard.

Sunny Wonder, 1 February 2019

You can use the “synced directory” support in the latest Working Copy to manage your org files in git. There are improvements to be made by beorg, as you suggest by allowing org files from file locations to be added, but this new feature in Working Copy makes this a little less urgent.

Custom Agenda Date Ranges

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 14:05:37 +0000

The Emacs Org Agenda supports several different views with different time ranges such as day, week, fortnight, month, and year along with custom ranges through the org-agenda-span variable (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/org/Agenda-commands.html).

I prefer setting org-agenda-span to 10 days instead of the default week view as I don’t care for past days and find 10 days to be a good range for my future tasks to be aware of.

Would it be possible to add a similar setting to the beorg agenda view?

How "safe" are my org files in ~/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~com~appsonthemove~beorg/Documents/org?

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 11:10:29 +0000

To keep stuff in sync between beorg and my desktop, I have symlinked the org file from icloud to my home dir:

$ cd ~
$ ln -s ~/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~com~appsonthemove~beorg/Documents/org .

I have a few questions:

How safe is this? If I delete beorg (not that I plan to) will I lose all my org files?
I assume this is saved to iCloud, but is it also caught by Time Machine?
Is it better to do some different, e.g. symlink a home org dir (under time machine backup scope) to the icloud directory, as done below?

$ mkdir ~/org  # make an org dir at home
$ cd ~/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~com~appsonthemove~beorg/Documents/
$ mv org/* ~/org/
$ rm -rf ./org
$ ln -s ~/org .

Link to search

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:12:51 +0000

It is currently possible to link to a heading like this

[[file:file.org::*Heading]]

Would it be possible to link to a search, across files? Click on a link with a keyword (let’s say “iOS”), it would show me everything that has the string “ios”, like if I was searching from the TODO tab.

Love beorg, thank you for your work Matthew. My org mode skills are growing in parallel to beorg. As you add features to the application, I learn their counterparts in org mode.

beorg 2.7.0 released

Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:37:54 +0000

beorg 2.7.0 is now available on the App Store. It is set to roll out as a phased release over 7 days - so if you aren’t getting the update (and don’t want to wait) you can update manually via the App Store Updates tab.

beorg 2.7.0 introduces support for Apple Watch. This first release for Apple Watch allows you to view your agenda on your wrist and to add complications to your watch face so you can keep track of how many tasks need to be completed today.

beorg 2.9.0 - introducing repeating tasks

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:16:11 +0000

beorg 2.9.0 delivers the ability to define and edit repeating tasks.

Monthly sales meeting? Weekly gardening? Daily jog? Set tasks to repeat on daily, weekly, monthly or yearly intervals. Choose how a task gets updated when completed - whether the date should be increased from the task date or today. Repeating tasks are available to all users in this latest release.

There are a number of other improvements and fixes in this release:

Repeating Tasks in beorg

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 08:00:00 +0000

With the release of beorg 2.9.0 you can now create and edit repeating tasks.

Monthly sales meeting? Weekly gardening? Daily jog?

Set tasks to repeat on daily, weekly, monthly or yearly intervals. Choose how a task gets updated when completed - whether the date should be increased from the task date or today. Repeating tasks are available to all users in this latest release.

Repeating tasks work a little differently than in some other task management apps. Rather than setting a task to repeat you add a repeat modifier to a date.

Custom Agenda Date Ranges

Thu, 17 Jan 2019 20:57:29 +0000

I prefer setting org-agenda-span to 10 days instead of the default week view as I don’t care for past days and find 10 days to be a good range for my future tasks to be aware of.

Would it be possible to add a similar setting to the beorg agenda view?

Sync beorg config via iCloud

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 09:21:09 +0000

Title says it all: it would be great if my to-do keywords etc were kept in sync across beorg on my iPad, iPhone, etc.

Pickle Dash, 9 January 2019

I shall look at this for a future release. Do any users reading this have any reason why they would want separate configuration on different devices? (e.g. use iPad for work and have a different set to TODO keywords)

Puzzle Widget, 10 January 2019

I think syncing config files via iCloud is a good idea. Is there a way from scheme to access the device name (“Bill’s iphone” or “old ipad mini”) or some other identifier so that if people wished (though I can’t think of why), they could use their init.org scheme code to make settings (as you suggest) that for whatever reason depend on which iOS device is in use?

Ability to filter/search by file name substring in the Files view

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 22:49:01 +0000

First of all, I love Beorg and use it every day! You’re doing great work.

Would it be possible to add a search box to the Files view, to quickly filter down to just files whose names match the search string?

I have ~200 org files (in particular one per person that I interact with regularly), and it’s very cumbersome to have to scroll through the whole list to open a particular file. This is especially hard when I can’t remember the first word of the file name, which means I have to scan every file name.

beorg 2.8.0 release notes

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:48:59 +0000

You can now paste OPML into the outline editor
Keyboard shortcuts in the outliner (can be customised in init.org)
Use the date picker in Scheme scripts
Sync triggered when files are renamed or new items are added
Quick capture extension issues resolved
Puzzle Widget, 8 March 2019

Special formatting not handled in BeOrg

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:47:42 +0000

Org allows you to embed hard NLs with “\” at the end of a line. I use that to write contact information into a list item so that it formats properly in PDFs (etc.). BeOrg doesn’t recognize the “\”, so the contact info looks strange when displayed. The hard NL is ignored and the next line is appended onto the current line. Can you fix that?

Doodle Cloud, 6 January 2019

Good spot - I’ll look into this and fix in a future release.

WebDAV Sync Issue

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:44:32 +0000

When trying to sync via WebDAV (to ownCloud server) I just get the message “Syncing org files…” at the top of the screen with a never-ending spinning ring. I trust my URL and credentials are correct as I successfully logged in to my ownCloud server with the WebDAV Nav app. Furthermore, when I intentionally mistype my login credentials the message and spinning ring go away after a few seconds.

I’m really excited to start using this app if I can get WebDAV syncing working.

beorg and OPML

Thu, 03 Jan 2019 08:00:00 +0000

iOS users are incredibly lucky to have some fantastic apps available on the App Store. I’m a big fan of mind maps for high level planning and love the app MindNode. You can plan and brainstorm in a much more visual way than you can with a text based outliner.

OPML is a popular XML format for outlines - it is supported by MindNode and apps such as OmniOutliner. The latest version of beorg (2.8.0) recognizes when you paste OPML and adds the content to your beorg outline.

Can I put my own macros in an easy-to-access place?

Sat, 29 Dec 2018 10:24:11 +0000

Suppose I want to write a few of my own Scheme functions to implement custom features, such as unusual ways of finding and displaying search results, or perhaps unusual ways of using sheets or forms to capture and format input (e.g. I might fill in a form (odometer reading, quantity of fuel purchased, unit cost) every time I put gasoline in my car), or maybe a quick two-button way to tell the file browser to open file “personal” and unfold a given subset of headlines and then center the screen on a given headline.

Able to modify read-only file!

Sat, 29 Dec 2018 10:11:14 +0000

I have most of my org files marked read-only in beorg (via the init script). This inhibits the normal editing functions, as desired. But when I push the left of the two upper-right-corner icons (I don’t know the name, sorry), as circled on the attached screen shot, I find that beorg will indeed make changes to the file. Are you able to reproduce this?

Many thanks,

Bill

Pepper Pudding, 27 December 2018

Yes, I got that too with the full page editor.

Blank rectangle covering text after reading file in plain text mode

Sat, 29 Dec 2018 10:08:47 +0000

Steps to reproduce:

Open a long .org file
Tap on the “view as plain text” button (top bar, second from the right)
The file is now shown as text, and the keyboard should have popped up
Tap the “back” button

The lower third of the screen should now be covered by a white rectangle, covering a part of the opened file.

This was tested on an iPhone 6S, running iOS 12.1.1 and Beorg 2.8.0 (99).

How "safe" are my org files in ~/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~com~appsonthemove~beorg/Documents/org?

Sat, 29 Dec 2018 10:08:19 +0000

To keep stuff in sync between beorg and my desktop, I have symlinked the org file from icloud to my home dir:

$ cd ~
$ ln -s ~/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~com~appsonthemove~beorg/Documents/org .

I have a few questions:

How safe is this? If I delete beorg (not that I plan to) will I lose all my org files?
I assume this is saved to iCloud, but is it also caught by Time Machine?
Is it better to do some different, e.g. symlink a home org dir (under time machine backup scope) to the icloud directory, as done below?

$ mkdir ~/org  # make an org dir at home
$ cd ~/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~com~appsonthemove~beorg/Documents/
$ mv org/* ~/org/
$ rm -rf ./org
$ ln -s ~/org .

What’s the best practice here?

allow zoom-in gesture when viewing read-only files

Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:02:07 +0000

I love beorg. I have a ton of information stored mainly in plain lists that live beneath headlines. They are all formatted for easy viewing in emacs on a real computer. And now that I have learned how to mark a subset of files as read-only, all of my reference data are read-only from beorg.

But when looking at my reference data from beorg (all of which is read-only), it would be great to be able to do the standard two-finger zoom-in gesture to see in more detail the text stored beneath a given headline. This is especially helpful if I am walking down the street and do not want to take the time to put on my reading glasses!

Clock-in/out?

Fri, 14 Dec 2018 18:24:40 +0000

As the title said. Would you consider adding the ability to interact with the logbook drawer and clock-in and out tasks?

Velvet Star, 6 December 2018

Can you explain how the logbook drawer works (for you)?

Doodle Cloud, 7 December 2018

Support for drawers is on the roadmap which will then open up lots of possibilities - including explicit support for clocking. If people do have explicit use cases for clocking that would be interesting to hear so I can take those into account when designing this feature.[]

Console and reload button for init.org

Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:03:16 +0000

Two features suggestion about init.org:

having a console output to see errors
having a “reload init.org” button to prevent force quitting from iOS each time we change the init file to have BeOrg take the modifications in account. This would be particularly useful while testing some new customization, since there is no console to tell us (for example) that a #$%@ parenthesis is missing.
Mango Button, 14 December 2018

Ok, for reloading init.org, I found the (reload ‘init) command suggestion in the other topic.

Org mode for todo.txt users

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Most people can benefit from using to-do lists - there is too much to keep track of in our heads. Some people get away with only keeping lists at work, whereas others have lists for everything from when your dog next needs grooming to the exact tasks needed to complete a major project on which your companies success is dependent on.

There are plenty of solutions out there which lock your data to a particular piece of software. For those of us in the know as much of our data as possible is stored in plain text so we can:

Help with Scheme query

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:29:35 +0000

I had this sent to me this morning and thought it would be useful to discuss in the forum:

Hi beorg team, I’m trying to create a new, saved search query with Scheme, and am having trouble getting the syntax right. The query I’d like to create would return all tasks with: A state of TODO AND (a scheduled date of <= today OR a show-on date <= today) Would it be possible for you to provide help with this? Thanks!

BeOrg Capture a Picture Task

Fri, 07 Dec 2018 09:26:30 +0000

Sometimes, there isn’t enough time to capture a task the normal way, so taking a picture would be a nice alternative. The idea is that you snap a quick picture and BeOrg fills in the where and when and drops it into your capture file for processing later.

Perhaps the pictures could be stored in a Dropbox or iCloud folder or maybe there is an Org package to help with this?

"Found in" ??

Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:23:44 +0000

On the Agenda screen, what is “Found in” items and how are they “found”?

Doodle Cloud, 5 December 2018

I think you are referring to calendar entries automatically created by iOS via natural language processing. You can turn this off in the iOS settings app / Siri & Search / Calendar. If something else please attach a screenshot.

Puzzle Widget, 5 December 2018

I think that’s the one. Never heard of that before. I’ll have to look that up to find more information on it. Having the markers in BeOrg on where the Calendar entries came from is very useful!

Welcome to the beorg forum

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 15:27:52 +0000

I’ve got big plans for beorg over the coming months. Part of that is growing the community around beorg - sharing of things you’ve discovered, tips and tricks and what new features you’d like to see implemented.

So join the discussion today - I’m excited to see what you have to say!

Puzzle Widget, 4 December 2018

Getting organized for Christmas

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:00:00 +0000

I’m a bit of an ostrich when it comes to Christmas. My usual game plan is to stick my head in the sand until the looming task of present buying, card writing and other festive activities can’t be ignored. Every year I tell myself this time it will be different. As the author of a task management app I’m going to stop the excuses and get organized for Christmas 2018.

The Importance of Context in Task Management

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 08:00:00 +0000

A key goal for any task management tool is to reduce mental overhead when deciding what task to do next. I can’t imagine being someone who doesn’t keep to-do lists, my mind is far too sieve like for such anarchy. Back at University in the late 1990s I had a Palm Pilot and used a to-do list application, what apps were known as back then, that I’ve long since forgotten the name of. Fast forward to today and task management software is key to keeping my personal and professional lives ticking along.

Using multiple files for my tasks and projects

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 08:00:00 +0000

beorg (and Org mode) store tasks, to-do lists and projects in files which you can open in any text editor. Most other to-do list and task management apps have a database in the cloud which you don’t have direct access to. Using multiple files allows you to clearly separate your to-dos, tasks and projects. It does though take some thinking to prevent file overload. In this article I’m going to review my personal approach to using multiple files.

A goodbye To Trunk Notes

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 09:15:00 +0000

Trunk Notes has been in development since 2009 and unfortunately it has come time to say goodbye. Revenue from Trunk Notes in the past couple of years has been very low. The interest in personal wikis, especially when lacking a companion web or desktop app, just isn’t high enough to generate the sales needed for further development. To give an idea of monthly income from Trunk Notes - it is equivalent to about one hour worked on projects for clients. The lack of competitor personal wikis on the App Store is a very clear indication that not many people are looking for one.

Search is coming to beorg

Thu, 08 Nov 2018 08:00:00 +0000

The next major feature being introduced into beorg is the ability to search your files. It will be available from the agenda and TODO tab. to allow quick search and filtering of all your headlines, whether they are tasks, part of a document or used to help structure a project.

A simple syntax has been designed to narrow down searches without needing to navigate a complex UI. Here are some examples of searches:

beorg 2.4

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 08:00:00 +0000

beorg 2.4 will be available this week and introduces a number of new features. The biggest new feature is the inclusion of a Scheme based language into beorg. The other big enhancement is file versions.

Download beorg

Scheme scripting

Scheme is a language based on Lisp. If you are an Emacs Org mode user then you are probably at least semi-familiar with Emacs Lisp. beorg includes a Lisp variant closer to the Scheme programming language but looks and feels very similar to Emacs Lisp.

Siri, Reminders, Shortcuts and beorg

Wed, 26 Sep 2018 08:00:00 +0000

Support for Siri Shortcuts is coming soon, however a Siri Intent (where you can add tasks to beorg in the same way you can Reminders) is a little way off.

Apple released an app called Shortcuts alongside iOS 12 which allows you to automate some tasks using a simple visual programming language.

Shortcuts is fantastic and it’s quick and easy to put Shortcuts together. So much so that I started a new Shortcuts blog a few days ago (I find creating them quite relaxing after a day of writing Swift, Objective-C, Java, Kotlin, …).

Dark mode, beorg extensions and a sneak peek at the next version

Wed, 05 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +0000

beorg 2.3 is now available and introduces extensions. beorg is free to download and use. Extensions will introduce non-core features that can be added via in-app purchase. The first available extension allows you to turn on a dark mode theme and is available for $0.99. Extensions will provide revenue to allow for lots of new and exciting features to be developed.

You can download beorg 2.3 today

Coming soon in beorg is a Lisp based scripting system. If you use Org mode in Emacs you may be familiar with Emacs Lisp. beorg will contain a similar language based on Scheme (a Lisp dialect). In version 2.4 you’ll be able to use this to:

Org vs Markdown

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:20:04 +0000

If you already use Markdown then the Org mode syntax will seem very familiar.

This is an overview of some of the basic Org mode syntax compared to Markdown. If you want to learn more check out the Org mode manual.

Our phones are amazing

Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:15:00 +0000

My phone is amazing. On an average day it will:

Be my book when I take my asleep 7 month daughter downstairs first thing in morning (Kindle app)
Check traffic on the school run before heading out (Google Maps)
Take phone calls from clients looking for an update on their app
See if it’s going to rain before going for a walk at lunchtime (Dark Sky)
Generating a banner image for a blog post (Adobe Spark Post)
Check and respond to email if out of the office (Inbox by Gmail)
Play a podcast on the way home from work (Overcast)
Help get my daughter to sleep with some white noise when it’s my wife’s turn to do our son’s bath (Spotify)
Catching up on RSS feeds (Reeder), Twitter (Tweetbot), Reddit (Apollo) whilst she’s falling asleep
Draft an idea for my latest blog post (Drafts/iA Writer)
Keep track of something I’ve thought needs to be done tomorrow (beorg)
Put something from Netflix on the Apple TV when the remote had gone missing again (iOS 11 Apple TV control centre function)

Thanks to my phone and all the apps I use everyday!

beorg 1.2

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 10:00:00 +0000

beorg 1.2 is now on the App Store.

WebDAV support

Dropbox is great but many people prefer to store files on their own server or use another solution which better meets their needs. WebDAV is a standard way of providing generic file server capabilities over the Internet and is supported by services such as OpenDrive, Nextcloud and ownCloud. If you use Org-mode and want to keep your org files out of the hands of providers such as Dropbox then beorg 1.2 is for you.

beorg - a new iOS Org-mode app

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:00:00 +0000

This is a slightly belated post about the release of beorg - a new iOS Org-mode app.

I’m going to admit to being a relative newcomer to Emacs and Org-mode. Whilst I’ve toyed with Emacs over the years I stuck with Vim since first using it at university in the late 1990s. The concept and polished implementation of Org-mode lead me finally to reconsider Emacs as my main editing environment¹ a few months back.

borg: iPhone Org-mode app

Thu, 25 May 2017 14:00:00 +0000

NOTE: borg (now called beorg) is on the App Store!

If use Org-mode and have an iPhone carry on reading.

As you know Org-mode is a fantastic plaintext based system for outlining, task planning, authoring and more. Many people, myself included, started using Emacs because of Org-mode.

You are probably also aware that there is an iOS Org-mode app called MobileOrg. It allows for sync and editing of your org files on your iOS device. It doesn’t however allow you to quickly see your agenda, and is a harder tool to use than popular iOS apps such as Things, OmniFocus and Wunderlist.

Advanced beorg settings UI

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Change many advanced beorg settings without needing to create an init.org file

App Icons

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Choose a different app icon

App Terms

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Background refresh

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beorg will try to download updates to your org files periodically. In control of this process is iOS. If you find that beorg isn’t updating as you expect it is worth checking that:

Background Refresh is allowed for beorg. To check this go into the Settings app, scroll down until you find beorg, then after tapping beorg make sure “Background App Refresh” is on.
Make sure your iPhone/iPad is not in Low Power mode. This will disable background refresh for all apps.

Box Sync

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sync your org files with Box

Capture and store text from web pages

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The idea for this article came via an email from a beorg user. They wanted to use beorg to capture links to web pages and any text they had selected on the page. Using the beorg URL scheme, templates and the Shortcuts app all of this is possible.

There are two steps to implementing this workflow:

Create a template in beorg which will add a new item to a file. A nice-to-have is to file the links automatically under year and month headings for easy reference.
Use the Shortcuts app to take a Safari Web Page and extract the title, URL and any selected text. It can then construct a beorg URL to create a new item using our template and set the headline to the page title and URL, and the notes to the selected text.

Creating the beorg template

To start creating a template swipe up on the capture button, select Manage Templates… and then tap +.

Create your own list of preset times for scheduling or deadlines

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

When scheduling a task or setting a deadline you can provide a date (e.g. 2nd March 2019) or a date and time (e.g. 2nd March 2019 14:30.) Some tasks can be completed at any point during the day. However some need to be done at a particular time, for example an arranged telephone call. It can also be useful to structure your day first thing in the morning by adding times to today’s tasks.

Creating an init.org

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

There are two ways to configure beorg:

On the Settings tab
By creating an init.org file

For most users the Settings tab contains everything they need to setup beorg. If you need to do some more advanced customisation you’ll need an init.org file.

The format of the `init.org` file

The init.org file is a normal beorg file that contains some blocks of Scheme code. Here is an example:

* Fonts

#+begin_src scheme
(set! editor-font "Menlo 15")
(set! repl-font "Menlo 15")
#+end_src

* Todo states

#+begin_src scheme
(set! org-todo-action-keywords '("TODO" "NEXT" "IN-PROGRESS" "WAITING"))
#+end_src

The Scheme code is inside a special block which starts with #+begin_src scheme and ends #+end_src. Everything else is ignored, but is useful to help you structure the file.

Custom colors

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This article is for beorg 2.12.1 and above. It was published before the release of beorg 2.12.1.

You should be familiar with customising beorg using an init.org file before continuing. Take a look at this article for an introduction.

Specifying colours

When specifying a colour in your init.org you need to use a hex code. For example FF0000 is red and FFFFFF is white. There are lots of articles on the web introducing you to writing colours this way which are worth reading if you haven’t done so before before. Hexadecimal Colours on Math Is Fun.

Customizing beorg using Scheme

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Become a beorg expert and go beyond the Settings tab.

In this video we’ll look at:

Using the beorg REPL to execute Scheme
Customizing beorg to start on the Files tab
Disabling file deletion

Dropbox why does beorg ask for access to everything

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

An app which uses Dropbox can either offer access to everything or an app specific folder. Many users will already have org files stored in Dropbox and want to use them in their current location. As such beorg is built to allow full access to Dropbox.

Enabling subfolders

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Out-of-the-box beorg doesn’t support folders. Using folders however can be very useful if you have a large number of .org files. In this article you will discover how to enable subfolder support in beorg.

Subfolder support is available for all sync methods, except for Box.

To enable subfolders you need to create an init.org file. This is a special file that beorg reads when it starts, and can be used to customize many different features in beorg.

Encryption

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Encrypt individual items

Encryption in beorg

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Encryption is available in beorg 3.4 and later as part of beorg Premium or via the Encryption in-app purchase.

Overview

In beorg you can encrypt notes and any subitems belonging to an item.

When you use encryption for the first time you’ll be asked to enter a password. This password will be stored securely on your iPhone or iPad.

To decrypt an item, or encrypt another item, this stored password will be used. To use the stored password you’ll be asked to authenticate yourself using Touch ID or Face ID. This authentication will last for a maximum of five minutes. If you choose to Lock an encrypted item you have decrypted to view then you’ll need to use Touch ID or Face ID again even if the five minutes isn’t up.

Encryption in beorg

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

In this article, I’ll go over the basics of encryption in beorg.

When you encrypt an item, you are encrypting the items notes and subitems - the title of the item stays unencrypted. To get started tap the encryption icon at the bottom of the screen:

You will then be asked to set a password. Each item you encrypt in beorg is encrypted individually, and could each be potentially encrypted with a different password. The last password you enter with will safely stored in the iOS Keychain so that an item can be unlocked using biometrics (FaceID or TouchID).

Excluding tasks from specific files on the Agenda and TODO tabs

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

You may have certain files in beorg which you don’t want to see on the agenda or TODO tabs. They may be very large and never contain tasks - in which case they may slow down beorg.

Some advanced customisation in beorg requires that you add some special commands to a file called init. This file can contain commands written in the Scheme language. The init file is the same as any other file you have in beorg and can be seen on the Files tab.

Export Themes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Three themes for preview/export of content. Define your own using CSS

File encoding

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

beorg saves files with the text encoding utf8. If you’ve created and synced a file from another app or your computer make sure it is utf8 encoded. This is the default in modern operating systems and text editors.

Filtering the agenda

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

If you have lots of tasks on your agenda it can be helpful to use a search to filter the agenda.

To show the search bar scroll to the very top of the agenda, or tap the search icon (top left).

A search can be either text which matches task titles, or can search various properties of the tasks using a simple syntax.

When editing the search text can you view documentation on the search syntax.

Finding your iCloud Drive beorg files in macOS

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

If you use iCloud sync you easily edit and create new files on your Mac. You’ll find your beorg directory by selecting iCloud Drive in the Finder and choosing the beorg folder.

Forum

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Getting Started With beorg

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An introduction to the basic features of beorg, including:

Initial setup
Creating a task and marking as done
The agenda and TODO tabs
Creating files and viewing an outline
Essential settings

Grouping and sorting search results

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I want to learn how to…

Group my search results, for example by task state, and sort each group, for example by priority.

Creating the search

This example starts with a search to show all tasks in a NEXT, IN-PROGRESS or WAITING state:

s NEXT s IN-PROGRESS s WAITING

You can build your search using the helper bar that appears above the keyboard. Tap what you want to search by and then either type of select the criteria.

How can I view/edit files from beorg on my computer

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beorg creates files which are compatible with Org mode. This is a powerful system developed for the Emacs editor. Many other editors support many of its great features. See the following list for how to get started in your editor of choice. If you know of a plug-in for your favourite editor and it isn’t listed below let me know.

Emacs - Org mode is written for Emacs and comes supplied. If you want the full experience this is what you need.
Atom - a popular editor from GitHub and has a number of packages for working with Org mode files.
Visual Studio Code - another extensible editor this time from Microsoft. See VS Code Org Mode if this is your editor of choice.
ViM - the famous rival to Emacs. vim-orgmode is worth checking out for editing files in this editor.

iCloud and symbolic links

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

If you currently have your org files stored in a particular location on your computer, and would like to use beorg with iCloud sync, then you might start thinking about how a symbolic link (symlink) could help. Unfortunately you can’t create a symlink in iCloud to a place on your computers main storage device and get syncing to work. What you can do though is to create a symlink on your computer TO the location in iCloud. So if, for example, you like having a folder on your desktop with all your org files then you would create a symbolic link on your desktop TO your beorg iCloud folder. The files would no longer actually be stored in a folder on your desktop, however you would still be able to access that folder from your desktop.

iCloud doesn't seem to be working

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

If you are having trouble with iCloud not working it may be that iCloud is disabled on your device. More specifically you need to make sure iCloud Drive is enabled. This feature allows apps to store settings and documents in your iCloud account.

To check that iCloud Drive is enabled:

Go into the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.
Select the Accounts & Passwords item.
Tap iCloud.
Make sure iCloud Drive is set to on.

If you are unable to set iCloud Drive to on, and you are using a device supplied by the company you work for, you may find it has been disabled by your administrator.

Identify the context of tasks in your agenda

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The agenda and TODO lists give you lots of information about an item in a small amount of space.

In the screenshot below you can see that items tell you the file they come from and where in the file’s outline the item is.

In the example above you can see that the item is in the file reading and the outline looks something like this:

Finished books
- 2019
  - 2019 March
    - The Border of Paradise by Esme Wejun Wang

If you have lots of tasks in the same file it can be very useful to get a little more context to help differentiate them.

Let's Get Going With Org mode

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Installing Emacs

Org mode uses plain text files which can be used in any text editor. The real power comes when you use an environment which understands Org mode. The best place to use Org mode files is Emacs.

This beginners’ guide uses ‘plain’ Emacs. There are many Emacs distributions which pre-configure it to improve the UI, selection of installed packages, keyboard shortcuts and more. If you decide you like Emacs it is worth checking out Spacemacs and Emacs Prelude - they can add a lot of value to the Emacs experience without requiring a massive time investment.

Managing Files

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Once you’ve started adding files to beorg you may find that you need to rename or delete a file.

To perform either of these actions swipe from right to left on a file. You can now rename or delete the file. If you delete a file it will be deleted locally and on any cloud service you sync with. beorg stores 7 days worth of versions of files, these are not deleted when a file is removed.

Managing projects with tags and saved searches

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I want to learn how to…

beorg allows you to have individual files for each area of your life. Using the outliner you can have multiple projects in a file, with each project containing a hierarchy of tasks. It’s common to have one or two top priority projects. This learning article shows you a way to get a quick view of what tasks remain in those projects.

The example file

Here is an example file and outline from a file dedicated to family tasks:

Notification Sound

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Change the sound beorg uses for notifications

Org GTD project dependencies and beorg

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If you use the org-gtd package in Emacs, and find beorg doesn’t work well with dependencies, you may find this tip useful:

In beorg use a BEDONE intermediate state instead of DONE for completed tasks.
Create a hook in Emacs to convert BEDONE to DONE, which will in turn trigger org-edna to update the dependencies.

Combining this with auto-revert in Emacs should ensure that when you sync changes in beorg that Emacs does the ‘right thing’ with your completed tasks.

Present ideas

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I find present buying for birthdays and Christmas stressful. What helps is having a big list of ideas ready to go. There often hints as to what would make good presents - from my children the hints are often not particularly subtle!

beorg is a great place to keep such lists. Making adding to my present lists as frictionless as possible makes it much more likely I’ll add to them when inspiration strikes.

Press Kit

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What is beorg?

beorg is a plain text task management app. beorg can be used to structure projects, keep track of tasks and take notes. Everything is summarised in a weekly agenda and filterable task list, with notifications reminding users about upcoming task items. Files are synced with iCloud, Dropbox or WebDAV to give users control over where their data is stored. The plain text file format means that files written by beorg can be edited in other iOS text editing apps or on a computer. Many popular text editors have plugins which understand the Org mode files that beorg uses.

Privacy Policy

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Privacy Notice

Apps On The Move Limited will be what’s known as the ‘Controller’ of the personal data you provide to us.

No personal data is explicitly collected from you.

The app beorg does not communicate back any information you enter to any servers owned or run by Apps On The Move. Any data entered into beorg is kept locally on your device or, if you opt to and where functionality exists, synced with Dropbox, Box, iCloud or your WebDAV server. beorg does make use of third party services to collect basic information about how the app is used. As a user of beorg you may choose to email us or use the support desk to get in contact - you are advised only to disclose information which you are happy for us to have. No information you provide to us will be disclosed to a third party unless necessary for the operation of the support servoce.

Properties

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Add key/value properties to items

Providing crash reports

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If you have a problem where beorg crashes it is helpful for us to receive crash reports.

To enable crash reporting on your iOS device:

Start the Settings app on your iPhone/iPad
Tap Privacy
Scroll down to the bottom and tap Analytics & Improvements
Make sure Share With App Developers is enabled

Once you’ve checked that crash reporting is enabled, please reproduce the steps needed to get beorg to crash. You can then raise a support ticket.

Quick access to files

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If you have lots of files in beorg use the pinned files feature. For each file you want to appear at the top of the Files screen, swipe from right to left on the file and tap Pin.

When you have pinned files you can filter the TODO tab to show only tasks in your pinned files. This can be useful to show only those tasks from your most important files.

Removing pre-defined filters

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In this learning article I’ll show you how to remove the pre-defined filters from the TODO filter button.

Out of the box beorg gives you access to a number of pre-defined filters on the TODO tab. These include ones for each task state, only tasks including dates and those that don’t include dates.

If you have purchased the Saved Searches extension you may find yourself wanting to remove these so you can only see the searches you’ve created.

Repeating Tasks

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Org mode supports a syntax for defining repeated tasks. For example:

** TODO Prepare client monthly newsletter
   DEADLINE: <2018-07-02 Mon +1m>

The current version of beorg understands this repeated task syntax and will show these tasks correctly in the agenda. Org mode also supports a warning period for deadlines - beorg doesn’t currently understand this and will ignore the repeated task.

Although beorg understands most repeated tasks it doesn’t allow repeated tasks to be defined or edited in the user interface. This feature, and support for warning periods, will be available in a future release of beorg.

Reporting issues with beorg

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If you have a problem with beorg check out the Learning sections on the beorg website.

If you have been unable to find a solution to your issue then please raise a support ticket.

When reporting what you think is a bug in beorg please provide the following information:

Describe in a few sentences what the issue is.
If possible provide the steps needed to reproduce the problem.
State what behaviour you expected to see
…and what behaviour you actually experienced.
Say when you first observed the issue, and whether anything had changed (for example you just installed a new version of iOS, or bought a new device)
If you think it would be helpful provide screenshots/videos showing the issue.
The model of your device
The version of iOS

If beorg is crashing then it can be helpful to ensure crash reporting is enabled on your device.

Saved Searches

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Save Agenda and Tasks searches

Search basics

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You can easily search your tasks in beorg.

A simple search syntax is used to allow you to narrow down a search by state (e.g. IN-PROGESS), files, tags, etc. For example s IN-PROGESS f work will show you all of your in progress work tasks.

It isn’t necessary though to remember that s means state, and f means file. Above the keyboard is a toolbar which allows you to easily construct your search.

Sync Calendar to a File

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Sync your system calendars to an org file for use outside of beorg

Sync Reminders to a File

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Sync reminders to an org file for use outside of beorg

Task Timers

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Time how long you spend working on individual tasks

Templates

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Create unlimited templates for journaling, weekly reviews, faster task creation, …

The anatomy of a task

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A task in beorg is your entry point for your to-do lists and projects. All of your tasks live inside files. When you start using beorg don’t worry too much about files, a file will be created for you when you add your first task.

It’s worth spending time familiarising yourself with the components of a task.

Headline: All tasks need a title. What you write here will appear in the agenda and on the TODO tab. Don’t include too many details, that’s what notes are for.
Save to: New tasks will be saved to a file called inbox. You can change the default file used on the Settings tab. Tap here to choose a different file or create a new one.
State: The state of a task is used to determine if it’s complete or still to be done. Unlike many task managers beorg allows you to define as many task states as you find useful. You can define these on the Settings tab. You don’t need to supply a task state, but it is recommended if something needs to be done.
Priority: Use a priority to help beorg order tasks on the agenda. A is the highest priority and F the lowest.
Tags: Tags are useful when using search in beorg. You can add as many tags as you want to a task.
Scheduled: If you want to do a task on a particular day add a scheduled date. You aren’t committing to completing the task on that day, that is what a deadline is for.
Deadline: This is when a task should be finished.
Show on: You just want the item to show on a particular day in the agenda. This can be used to remind you of an upcoming task or for items which aren’t tasks, for example journal entries.
Notes: Add here as much detail as you want. As beorg uses plain text files to store all of your tasks you may see some additional text added here automatically - for example dates.

Don’t feel as though you need to use everything on this screen. Work out what makes you more productive and experiment with the different options beorg gives you.

The app badge

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The beorg app icon, the one you tap to launch the app, will show you the number of overdue tasks. If there are no overdue tasks then no number is shown.

Time Tracking and Reporting

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One of beorg’s extensions is to help you track time spent on tasks. When the Task Timers extension was first introduced it was only really useful if you also used clocking in Org mode on the desktop. As well as developing beorg I provide development services for third parties working on projects on either a day rate or for a fixed price. When I’m at my computer I track time in Org mode by clocking in and out of tasks so I can keep track of how much budget is left on fixed price projects or how much to charge clients when charging for time spent. Org mode has lots of powerful tools for reporting on time but they aren’t necessarily that easy to use. beorg 3.8.0 introduces some new functionality to the Task Timers extension to give some simple reports on logged time.

Tutorials

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You can find here short videos demonstrating how to use some beorg features.

UI Themes

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Solarized color scheme + legacy light and dark themes

Using templates to keep a reading journal

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If I have a spare five minutes you’ll probably find me reading a book - usually in the Kindle or Scribd app however I also love the luxury of reading an actual physical hardback or paperback.

I’ve nearly finished a book called “I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life” by Anne Bogel. It has caused me to rethink keeping a journal of the books I read.

Viewing the beorg log

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If you have an issue with beorg, such as file sync not working, then you may find more information as to what is going wrong by looking at the beorg log. Similarily if you report a problem to support you may be asked to provide the debug log to help look at your issue.

To access the beorg log:

Go to the Settings tab in beorg
Tap the button top right (this starts something called the beorg REPL)
Enter the command (log-contents)

WebDAV certificate

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If you want to store and sync files from your own web server or services such as OwnCloud, NextCloud, etc then you can use WebDAV. To keep communication between beorg and the server secure you should have a certificate configured. beorg won’t work with self signed certificates. You can obtain free certificates which work with beorg from letsencrypt.org.

WebDAV issues

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If you are having trouble configuring WebDAV here are some tips:

A self signed certificate won’t work. Services such as letsencrypt.org provide free certificates which are recognized by iOS.
Make sure the time on your iOS device and the server are both correct.
Check the permissions of the files on your server - make sure that beorg will be able to update them. If you find that changes made in beorg aren’t reflected on the server this might be the issue.
You can get detailed debug information on WebDAV problems using the beorg REPL - see below.

Using the beorg REPL to get more information on your issue:

WebDAV, git and Working Copy

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Working Copy is a fantastic app to help you use git on your iPhone and iPad. One of its features is a WebDAV server. When used on iPad in Split View then another app can use WebDAV to access git repositories managed by Working Copy. In this learning article we are going to setup beorg to sync with a git repository using Working Copy and WebDAV.

To start create a new repository in Working Copy:

What is the 'Found In Natural Language' calendar?

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You might notice some calendar events appearing in your beorg agenda from a “Found In Natural Language” calendar. This is a calendar created by iOS based on text it thinks indicates an event - for example from text messages.

As this is a special calendar created and managed by iOS it doesn’t appear in the list of calendars in beorg.

If you find you don’t want these events to appear in beorg (and in other apps which use the calendar) then you can turn them off. To do so:

What other mobile apps can work with Org files?

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You can edit beorg files in any iOS editor which can open text files from iCloud Drive. For example Textor or iA Writer.
MobileOrg is another iOS app built specifically for Org mode.
The fantastic Working Copy has syntax highlighting for org files.
If you are on Android check out Orgzly.

When are notifications delivered?

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beorg can notify you of events. Events without a specific time but that do have a scheduled or deadline date will trigger a notification at a time you configure in the Settings tab. For events with a scheduled date or deadline which includes a time will be shown a set number of minutes before that time. This can be configured in the Settings tab.

Where can I find out more about Org mode

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The Org mode manual is a fantastic resource. Please note beorg only supports a small set of the features offered by Org mode in Emacs.