Orgzly: Notes & To-Do Lists

Orgzly

About this app

Orgzly is an outliner for taking notes and managing to-do lists.

You can keep notebooks stored in plain-text and have them synchronized with a directory on your mobile device, SD card, Dropbox, or over WebDAV.

Notebooks are saved in Org mode's file format. “Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.” See https://orgmode.org for more information.

Ratings and reviews

OMG is this for real? Am I dreaming? Did some entity actually take the time to create a genuinely useful app??? I have only used it for maybe a minute, so am hardly an expert. But, to me, it is all so intuitive that the learning time is maybe tens of seconds at most. Just stare at their tutorial example thing for a moment. Like wow.

So if you're not using org, you may not need or want this. It's highly, unbelievably customizable, but the learning curve was pretty steep & I had to keep going back to the fairly terse user guide. For me the customizability is basically overkill; I only need it for tasks & to-do lists or shopping lists. I use a calendar app that is basically a better front end to the Android native GCalendar & syncs w/it online. THIS app is amazing. It's just way more than I need.

Used to be 5 stars, but with each update, more crazy gets added than good. For example, the latest version changed all the icons, and with very poor icon choices. For example, the icon to edit a note is the "escape" icon that normally means "to exit out of current viewspace." Further, the controls have gotten MORE clumsy by adding a new bar that wasn't needed and shifting controls to that bar, and then getting rid of long-press controls. Honestly, I'm about to go looking for older versions.

What's new

• Allow using alarm clock for scheduling reminders with a time of day
• Log and view major events (e.g. scheduling reminders)
• Check for reminders since the last run on boot and data-change
• Remove edit/view modes from note, single tap to edit and position the cursor correctly
• Replace quick menus with popup windows