Integrating data manipulation scripts

[seekingmeanings]

First of all, thank you all for your continuous support of this app!

I would love to know the developers and the communitys opinion about the following problem. In my pursuit of organized notes, I've encountered the issue of shuffling and mass editing many notes to maintain cleanliness while also keeping a record of my work.

Would it be useful to have an integrated scripting language in Orgzly? It could offer function hooks and the org tree to users to help them automate some management tasks.

Currently, I sync to termux, where python scripts manipulate the org files, and then I sync to my DAV, also on termux.

I would love to hear other suggestions regarding this matter. Perhaps I'm missing the point of org mode, or maybe I'm just not using it correctly.

I'm aware of the number of open issues and feature requests, so I'm starting this discussion instead of adding to the existing ones.

[rkoe]

Hi,
I'm also using termux and a Python script to process Orgzly-files (but for a time-tracker-feature, incl. inotify).
I also have Python-scripts to sync the Orgzly-files from/to Android, convert them etc.

But I would not recommend to integrate a scripting language into Orgzly, since this would probably be a lot of work, a maintaining nightmare and make Orgzly much larger/more complicated. In my opinion, scripts should stay external (either via termux or a separate scripting-app).

It would be interesting though, if Orgzly could have some hooks to external scripts (e.g. calling a script when a note is created/modified or the state of a note is changed). But I don't know if this is possible at all on Android -- or if a separate app, monitoring the Orgzly-files for changes and calling scripts, would be the better solution.