organice VS org-web

With organice you can host your notes on Gitlab for free and the backend becomes "git". You get web apps for Windows, iOS and Android.

https://organice.200ok.ch/

Sorry, but _what exactly_ «it seems to do» from your point of view?

My «second brain» now is almost 300Mb of text, pictures, sound files, PDF and other stuff. As I already mentioned, it contains tables, mathematical formulae, sheet music, cross-references, code samples, UML diagrams and graphs in Graphviz format. It is versioned, indexed by local search engine, analyzed by AI assistant and shared between many computers and mobile devices. And (last but not least) it works: it allows me to solve my tasks way more faster than with the assistant of external, non-personalized tools (like ChatGPT, StackExchange or Google).

I know no tools for all this tasks except org-mode. Well, maybe Evernote in the 2010-s was something similar — but with less features, with more bugs and with worse interface.

Personal note-taking _is_ a complex task per se (well, at least for someone like typical HN visitor). I've seen many note-taking tools, that were ridiculously featureless, stupid and inconvenient because they were _not_ complex enough.

> Sure if one wants to do emacs-gardening it is fine.

1)You can use org-mode outside Emacs. See for example Logseq (https://logseq.com/), organice (https://organice.200ok.ch/) or EasyOrg.

2)Org-mode works in Emacs out of the box, you don't need any «emacs-gardening» to use org-mode.

3)The term «Emacs-gardening» itself sound a bit like hate-speech for me. The complexity of Emacs customization is overrated, mostly due to opinions of people who never used Emacs or used it in the previous millennium.

organice?

organice is a user friendly, cloud backed up, lightweight front end to orgmode (or based on).

https://organice.200ok.ch/

organice is a more active fork of org-web that can also sync with GitLab or WebDAV. I'm currently syncing it with my personal Nextcloud server.

If you just need the basic syntax highlighting provided by the VS Code plugin then use that. If you want the full power of org mode then go with Emacs. If you want something in between then maybe EasyOrg https://easyorgmode.com/ or Organice https://github.com/200ok-ch/organice will do.

You could try “organice”: https://github.com/200ok-ch/organice , it runs on any browser including Mobile Safari, so it should work on iPads. I haven’t tried it on Android nor Android-based tablets. It does work on iPhone.

If you stick with Orgmode, what I used was https://org-web.org/ it's pretty great

Collaboration is indeed a weak point of Org. However, there are https://org-web.org/ and https://logseq.com/

> Also i dont care about a fancy looking UI that uses 8GB of RAM and takes 10 Seconds to load, just make it work.

Well, this is pretty much Google Docs or any Open Source clone like Nextcloud or LibreOffice Online I guess. It's surely possible though to write something like that with a very lean UI.

I think many Web developers go by default for something more complex though because it's not necessarily more effort. And well, there are already a bizillion similar apps.

> Also i dont care about a fancy looking UI that uses 8GB of RAM and takes 10 Seconds to load, just make it work.

But this one might be relatively close to what you're looking for: https://github.com/DanielDe/org-web (At least if you self-host, the web server of org-web.org doesn't seem very fast :))

I use this for shared org Todo lists: https://org-web.org/

There are also mobile apps like orgzly or plain-org. And one more link for online editors: https://org-web.org/. As the last resort, you may always go for Emacs on mobile. (There are currently even some discussions on emacs-devel about touchscreen support).

Surprised nobody has mentioned this yet, but Org-mode for Emacs [1] is just great, and fits very well to the requirements:

- Source of truth: these are text files, so any of git, nextcloud, syncthing etc. will do.

- Consistent interface: using emacs might be tough on mobile, but there are some web interfaces for Org mode [2]

- Standard protocols: custom scripting does anything. ical is pretty easy to handle, not sure about webdav.

- FOSS: check

- Multiple calendars: yep, via Org agenda [3]

- Subtask support: As deep as you can go

- Custom logic: via emacs scripts (or some creativity if you're using the web ui above)

- Markdown notes: yes, minimal differences between org mode and markdown

[1] https://orgmode.org/

[2] https://github.com/DanielDe/org-web

[3] https://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-Views.html

Different options exist offering a differing amount of features. These include MobileOrg, Beorg, flat habits, OrgRO. Other solutions include Org Web, Organice.