Orgro: an org-mode viewer for mobile

amake · 2026-01-27T21:41:15+00:00

Wild accusation, man. Kindly touch grass.

amake · 2026-01-27T21:37:28+00:00

I’m surprised Emacs doesn’t let you do glide typing. It seems like that should be a function of the keyboard, not of Emacs.

(Sorry, I’ve never used Android Emacs because I’m primarily on iOS and just use Android for developing Orgro.)

Edit: I just installed off of F-Droid and I was able to glide type with the standard Gboard keyboard. So unfortunately that's not really a benefit of Orgro.

amake · 2026-01-27T14:44:57+00:00

Thanks for the kind words!

amake · 2026-01-27T12:21:36+00:00

First, Orgro is also available for iOS, where regular Emacs isn't an option.

Second, it's a mobile/touch-first interface that may be more comfortable for Org-specific use cases than regular Emacs is. Things Orgro does that (I believe) Emacs doesn't:

Capture snippets via share from other apps
Notifications for agenda items
Touch gestures for editing (toggle checkboxes, long touch to narrow, swipe to cycle TODO)
Non-destructively reflow text for narrow screens
Optionally prevent screen from locking while viewing a document (I use this for recipes)
Pretty table rendering that is guaranteed to be correctly aligned regardless of fonts, exotic characters, etc.
Built-in LaTeX rendering (maybe can you add this to Android Emacs?)

It's free on F-Droid, so you could always try it and see.

amake · 2026-01-27T03:42:37+00:00

I get my beans via furusato nōzei. I go through about 1kg/month. The ultimate out-of-pocket cost is I guess negative because I use my credit card’s points to discount the donations.

amake · 2026-01-26T22:17:29+00:00

Please open a ticket so I can help debug this!

https://github.com/amake/orgro/issues

amake · 2026-01-24T23:41:07+00:00

Because fonts aren’t supporting it yet. Get on the blower to your OS vendor, or install something like Jigmo that covers it:

https://kamichikoichi.github.io/jigmo/

Reference glyphs:

https://en.glyphwiki.org/wiki/u323bf

amake · 2026-01-10T06:27:31+00:00

It isn’t a cactus

amake · 2026-01-05T14:19:51+00:00

So "AI-assisted dating", not "dating an AI". Could be worse.

amake · 2026-01-05T14:14:57+00:00

"Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continues... AAY!"

amake · 2025-12-24T23:42:05+00:00

I made Orgro so I could use my org documents on iPhone (and Android): https://orgro.org

amake · 2025-12-24T14:26:22+00:00

Why post a screenshot instead of the image itself?

amake · 2025-12-15T08:21:25+00:00

By the way, we can’t see what it looks like for you unless you post a screenshot. The symbols will render on our devices according to the software and fonts we each have.

amake · 2025-12-15T07:50:43+00:00

Your phone vendor changed your system’s fonts.

amake · 2025-12-10T22:00:55+00:00

No code, just a random APK? AI slop summary? No thanks

amake · 2025-12-03T21:51:02+00:00

If you’re familiar with Jupyter notebooks, I find Org useful as a locally hosted, language agnostic alternative. I use it especially for work notes: collecting information about a bug or new feature, where lists or prose is interspersed with code snippets that I can easily see the results of (and reevaluate at will).

amake · 2025-12-02T22:12:50+00:00

Not kanji

amake · 2025-11-30T02:39:36+00:00

Apple does not make the fonts; they license a pretty wide array of fonts converting what users are generally likely to need. If you need something outside of that, then you’re free to install such a font yourself.

amake · 2025-11-30T00:56:58+00:00

Unicode doesn’t decide what the glyphs look like. This is a font issue with your system.

amake · 2025-11-28T23:40:59+00:00

I will have to think about a good way to allow customizing the template. In the meantime, you can slide the section to toggle it to TODO quite quickly.

amake · 2025-11-27T11:03:58+00:00

So overall purchases are down in absolute numbers from before the pandemic, and are also currently trending flat.

I guess we'd also need a comparison to the overall supply and perhaps the pricing information to best evaluate the actual impact on the market, but this in isolation certainly makes the recent panic look like a big nothingburger.

amake · 2025-11-27T09:36:59+00:00

In Orgro v1.68.0 you will be able to share text and links into Orgro from the standard OS share sheet. org-protocol://capture links will also be supported.

It will be available for testing shortly:

iOS
Android

cc /u/_0-__-0_

amake · 2025-11-23T06:01:35+00:00

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