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by xenodium 1568 days ago
Interesting to see habits tracked using an org property drawer. I hadn't considered this before. Org itself has habit-tracking support https://orgmode.org/manual/Tracking-your-habits.html using :STYLE: habit.

I'm head-in org land. For habit-tracking, I found removing friction from the tracking process itself absolutely fundmental for longer term success (Atomic Habits, the book, corroborates). Like the author, I also needed mobile access for this. I built https://flathabits.com (powered by org) for this purpose (iOS only). In the end, I found I hardly used Emacs org mode to view or track my habits since the mobile app removed all the trakcing friction. Now I just get peace of mind knowing that I can access the plain text file if I want to.

ps. I also built another org mode app for iOS https://plainorg.com

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Your work is contributing to the org-mode renaissance; users of the world appreciate you! Now if I could just get multi-platform sync working correctly (iCloud doesn't play nice with Linux)...
Hey, that's nice to hear. Have you seen some of the syncing alternatives? https://plainorg.com#cloud-providers

Mileage varies across iOS providers, but some users have reported being fairly happy with either WorkingCopy or Syncthing/MöbiusSync which would work on Linux. I'm on iCloud though.

I'll probably give MöbiusSync another shot; my first experience with it was heavy on battery usage and notifications, light on functionality.
WebDAV is the fuuuuuuture.
Do you happen to know of an iOS solution that plugs into https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT206481#thirdparty that you're happy with?