I find MobileOrg's workflow clumsy to work with. I wish it would just allow me to browse a directory in my Dropbox and leave the syncing to Dropbox itself.

I'm a MobileOrg user, and I completely agree. I would pay good money for an app that presents an iOS user interface for editing files with org-mode markup, including creating org-mode files on the fly. Unfortunately, MobileOrg offers neither of those features.

MobileOrg is free software (https://github.com/richard/mobileorg), but it's so far from what I'm looking for that it might just be easier to start from scratch.

I just have a save hook to do all the work. I'm not even sure what all the work is, but emacs does it for me.

Is there a tutorial or something for MobileOrg? I just installed it, but I feel like I must be missing some functionality (e.g., how to get my agenda).