Posting from mobile (and/or "Octopress Processing as a Service" ?)

[gal-at-aljazeera]

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Has anyone got any good solutions for posting from mobile?

I'd love to be able to post on-the-go from my iphone.

I saw this solution: http://www.candlerblog.com/2012/04/01/remote-octopress-workflow/

which sounds a bit convoluted. Is there anything more straightforward?

Here a list of best of breed ipad blogging apps: http://www.techlila.com/10-best-blogging-apps-for-iphone-and-ipad/

Something like blogpress is designed to be service agnostic (Blogger, WordPress, MSN Live Space, etc)

Any thoughts on what it would take to support something like Blogpress?

I supposed it would take a server side component which is counter to the whole idea. Maybe there is room for a hosted / octopress-as-a-service service, still using your own github repo, your own static site hosting (S3, Github Pages, FTP, whatever), and it just provides an engine to process and publish posts.

If it doesn't exist, I just try to start this as a new feature branch. If anyone wants to collaborate on this, let me know.

[dialdn]

I have a similar solution that works. It requires one of my macs are on all the time but it means I can edit and deploy for any one of 3 macs as well as 2 iOS devices.

• I store my complete site in Dropbox
• I use Editorial to create new posts (with the YAML header info, published=false)
• I have hazel running on my Mac to move new posts to the _posts folder (Editorial places them at the Blog root)
• I use Byword/Editorial on my iOS device to modify posts
• I have hazel watch a .txt file in the root of my blog which I modify if I need to generate and deploy when away from a computer (hazel runs a bash script when a change occurs)

BTW, I have also created a couple of Editorial workflows to more easily manage/import image links from the Dropbox iOS app.

I did have Hazel watch my _posts folder for changes and run the generate and deploy bash script but decided I wanted to control that. Now with the .txt file, I can force it whenever I want.

Mike

[joelewis]

Logging this here for people coming from Google Search.

http://hexopress.com allows you to write posts in Google Docs & sync it up with a dedicated Octopress instance. Use it for managing an Octopress instance from anywhere (mobile / non-personal computer)