Apps On The Move

I have 3000+ org files total split across subfolders (org-roam!), so syncing subfolders takes forever. The app has been syncing since yesterday morning and it's only gotten through <500 files.

In Emacs, you can specify a list of org-agenda-files, including files in subfolders. I only use beorg to read my agenda, so I only need my org-agenda-files synced. With the new subfolders feature (+ maybe the ability to exclude particular files), is it possible to selectively sync only my list of agenda files, even if some of them are in subfolders?

In response to my related ticket, Matthew suggested one potential solution for more advanced users: write a Scheme function that could be defined to return true if a particular file is to be included in the sync. Unfortunately I don't know much Scheme, so any help or alternative ideas would be appreciated!

Not good at writing Lisp/Scheme, but I imagine this function would take an argument and compare it against a list.  You could probably find Lisp examples in Emacs packages and then convert to Scheme.  I think scheme.org has documentation on the language.

Another option might be to redo your syncing process on the Emacs side.  Since the purpose of syncing here is to get the necessary files to BeOrg, there isn't much of a reason to sync org-roam stuff as well.  You could probably use 'rsync' or 'syncthing' to only sync up the files that need to go across to BeOrg.  This would just require some shell scripting (although syncthing does have a GUI).

Even if you're syncing with other Emacs systems and want to sync all the files for that purpose, it might be easier to setup a separate sync for BeOrg that strips the list of files down to what you need for BeOrg.  Then, you can use the normal sync process in BeOrg.

Matthew,

Could you also remind people where to find the latest documentation on Scheme functions recognized by Beorg?  Perhaps put a link on beorg.app...?

I found a mention of it here: https://appsonthemove.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/14000020176

I have the following in my init.org:

```

  (define blacklist '("1.org" "2.org"))

  (define (sync-ignore-file path) (member path blacklist))

but I see in the log that both `1.org` and `2.org` are being examined for syncing. What am I missing?

Oh, just took a look at Beorg > Learning > Scripting and found the link to library.org.  One problem:

Library.org has some long lines and the box it is displayed in on the web page cuts off the lines.  There is a horizontal scrollbar way at the bottom of the box, but, if you scroll all the way down to find it, you lose context and it is impossible to see how far to scroll right.

Can that be fixed?

Here's what's sort of working for me:

```

    (define blacklist '("file.org"))

        (log-debug (format "-- Examining file ~s" path))

        (member path blacklist))

I have 600 entries in the blacklist. I suspect that this is causing performance degradation instead. In the log, I see "Examining file" entries and they last for about 20 seconds. Mean while I can't make any changes to the agenda. So this is not the way to go.

Any other thoughts on how to optimize synchronization?

Hi Matthew, 

I have roughly 1700 .org files and I use dropbox. 

I tried using iCloud which seems more performant but it stopped syncing my org directory at some point, I suspect because of the .git folder -- I use git-auto-commit module.