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 http://orgmode.org for more information.

Ratings and reviews

Best Emacs org mode agenda reader on Android. Took off stars because as a todo app it could use work - editing lists is slow and uncomfortable. Things that make mobile todo apps usable like swipe actions (e.g., swipe left to complete task, swipe right to reschedule) are missing. Instead long presses (slow) bring up a menu of tiny icons which are hard to select, or select task and switch screens for scattered buttons. WARNING: may clobber your org file formatting. Recommend read-only.

UPDATE: thank you for the great support. Everything works fine now. Can't get it to reliably sync between my different Dropbox endpoints. Whenever I change something on my PC, changes aren't being picked up by Orgzly, yet further changes on the app lead to a conflict on sync. I wish there was a way to just reset everything and copy from Dropbox manually to avoid this kind of problem.

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.

What's new

• Target Android 11
• New "System" color scheme
• WebDAV sync fixes and digest authentication support