One of the oldest feature requests for my notes app that still is not implemented is plain file storage. It’s not entirely trivial to keep the files and the database in sync while also avoiding conflicts with Google Tasks. And because I never had any need of it myself, it always got a very low priority. However, after a user introduced me to org-mode I have felt more and more need of this.

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So step 1 of the process to a proper Android client for org-mode is more or less complete. The library can be found on GitHub. It’s a plain old java library that builds a jar file which can be included in other projects. It has one requirement which is included in the lib-folder: Joda Time. Coding this up I really came to hate the built in Date and Calendar classes in Java.

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