I am really disappointed by the current state of org mode (or just note taking in general) on Android.

I really want a simple, dedicated app where I can:

1. make a simple list or takes some notes
2. have that be saved in some plain text format that can be edited in vim or emacs on my computer
3. have that file be accessible in a way that Syncthing can pick it up
4. Pick up changes made on the file system

Orgzly seems to want to do its own thing and fails at 3 and 4. orgro is read-only. Every other note-taking or list app I've seen just stores stuff in its own little database in its own format.

@pganssle I haven't used Syncthing so I don't understand your difficulty with that, but I use orgzly with nextcloud sync and it's been working great for years

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@ryanprior Interesting, when I tried earlier I thought it was trying to manage all the `.org` files itself (not importing stuff that already existed), but I think the actual issue is that it doesn't recursively look into folders, and all my `.org` files are organized into folders.

The problem I have now is that orgzly seems to use a completely flat file structure, which is feeling a bit unmanageable to me, since I organize by folders.

Practically speaking I only really touch a few notebooks frequently, so maybe "sort by last modification" will work for now.

Thanks!

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