From: Mark Elston <m_elston@comcast.net>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Status google calendar sync
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:36:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D44EABE.5070203@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rmi62t7fnis.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>
On 1/29/2011 12:44 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> Mark Elston<m_elston@comcast.net> writes:
>
> [google calendar]
>
>> I wasn't all that keen on it at first but I really got to like it when
>> I was able to update my calendar from my phone or my laptop or my
>> desktop at work and all three would see it.
>>
>> When I found I could create multiple calendars and share *some* of them
>> I really started to enjoy the idea of a central server for my calendar
>> data.
>
> You are blurring having a calendar server and being forced into sharing
> your data with google because of using non-free software that is
> crippled by not being able to set the server URL.
I pointed out in a different thread that the software I use doesn't
*require* syncing with google, but can work very nicely as an offline
calendar. I use the google server for the reasons I gave.
>> ...
>
> org syncing with a calendar server makes a lot of sense to me, but again
> that's separate from a "the only usable calendar server is google".
>
That wasn't my intent. I use google since it is convenient and
available everywhere I have a network connection (or 3G with my
phone). If another service came along that fit my needs as well or
better I would certainly take a look at it.
>
> I think the only tricky part is somehow push UUIDs during scyning, and
> then you'll need an operation to merge an org event and an ical event
> with different UUIDs and remember the foreign UUID for the next sync.
I'm not sure what you mean by this.
I have never made use of any .ical/.ics files so this hasn't been an
issue for me. The only UUIDs I am dealing with are google calendar's
own internal UUIDs. I don't know how they compare with other UUIDs.
What I am working on now is a python script to initialize some of the
info I have in my org files with info from google (including the google
UUID). Most of this will go into a property drawer. This drawer can
certainly be expanded to contain additional data from other tools as
necessary.
What I would like is to be able to shuffle my schedule in org as it is
often a more convenient interface for this than *any* calendar I have
used for the kinds of things I have to do. Once I get the dates/times
for individual events the way I want them I would then push them to
google (or wherever). My notes and other useful data stay in org.
That is what I will be working on as I have the time.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-30 4:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-29 14:53 Status google calendar sync Torsten Wagner
2011-01-29 19:38 ` Mark Elston
2011-01-29 20:44 ` Greg Troxel
2011-01-30 4:36 ` Mark Elston [this message]
2011-01-30 13:28 ` Greg Troxel
2011-01-30 14:09 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-01-30 20:43 ` Arun Persaud
2011-01-30 21:36 ` Mark Elston
2011-01-30 14:01 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-01-30 1:21 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-01-31 10:02 ` Christopher Witte
2011-02-01 9:07 ` Eric S Fraga
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-02-01 0:54 Torsten Wagner
2011-02-01 9:12 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-02-01 22:44 ` Sven Bretfeld
2011-02-02 5:15 ` Torsten Wagner
2011-02-02 8:30 ` Konrad Hinsen
2011-02-14 21:39 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-02-15 7:18 ` Konrad Hinsen
2011-02-15 16:37 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-02-15 16:43 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-02-15 16:55 ` Bastien
2011-06-10 16:58 ` Stephen Eglen
2011-06-10 17:04 ` Arun Persaud
2011-06-10 18:34 ` Stephen Eglen
2011-06-10 19:09 ` Arun Persaud
2011-06-11 13:25 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-06-11 18:38 ` Nick Dokos
2011-06-15 19:00 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-06-11 17:32 ` Niels Giesen
2011-06-30 16:14 ` Bastien
2011-06-15 18:45 ` Eric S Fraga
[not found] ` <87hb7rory9.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
2011-06-16 12:13 ` Stephen Eglen
2011-01-21 8:38 Torsten Wagner
2011-01-21 9:43 ` Ian Barton
2011-01-21 15:22 ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-21 18:19 ` Arun Persaud
2011-01-21 23:58 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-01-25 20:21 ` Arun Persaud
2011-01-26 12:33 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-01-26 23:29 ` Mark Elston
2011-01-27 0:52 ` Arun Persaud
2011-01-27 2:51 ` Mark Elston
2011-01-27 19:43 ` Arun Persaud
2011-01-27 21:57 ` Arun Persaud
2011-01-28 16:13 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-01-31 19:03 ` Bastien
2011-01-29 1:28 ` Greg Troxel
2011-01-29 12:45 ` Eric S Fraga
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