Org-Roam Mobile

My hunt for a mobile setup for org-roam continues. LogSeq doesn’t handle org IDs. Plain Org is buggy (syncing with Dropbox, recent file list disappears, copy and paste doesn’t work, etc.). Beorg is too slow after upgrading to iOS 17.

Now I’m trying a git based workflow using Working Copy and Shortcuts. It eliminates sync conflicts with iCloud or Dropbox (or at least, I’m much more capable of resolving these conflicts using git). While not as fully featured as Beorg, it can do the main thing I need to do on mobile—capturing new tasks.

Since all of my notes are in a git repository already, all I need is automation to smooth out the experience. I created a Shortcut using Working Copy’s support for x-callback-url to pull the repo, write text to the end of a file, and prompt me to commit and push (this also works in the share sheet and with Siri). On desktop, using git-auto-commit-mode, every time I save a sync’d file it will push it to the repo.

If I forget to save/sync before switching over to mobile, I can use git to resolve it to avoid data loss. For simple conflicts, it might be able to resolve automatically.

See also:

• If not for using org-id links in org-roam, there would be fancier options to view/edit any note on the go (including in Working Copy)
• In How to Take Smart Notes parlance, this is for capturing “fleeting notes” about projects and ideas to review later
• My personal note taking practice

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• Use Git Logs to Search for Deleted Content

  If you’ve ever accidentally deleted something from a file and want to recover it using git you can search the full history for a string.