From: "Christopher J. White" <orgmode@grierwhite.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org Mode TOOD two way sync tool
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:03:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE45EF9.8040307@grierwhite.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFkt3UNqrQ_6-m8T2j6NH-DkYpjM191h1JYSSxwS_7sx39EB8w@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Karra,
I've been working on org-toodledo.el to perform bi-directional sync of
TODO items with the Toodledo server, and faced many of the same issues
you raise about figuring out the exact format and grammar of a TODO item.
You may find looking at my source useful, either as inspiration,
integration, or just understanding what fields are what.
The general approach was to build an object that represents a parsed
TODO item, and fill that in from either the org-buffer TODO items, or
from items retrieved from the server. That object can then be compared
to others (one from the server and one from the local buffer), converted
to a new org TODO, sent to the server as a new TODO, etc. The
components of the TODO item are obviously targeted to what makes sense
for Toodledo, but I think they are fairly generic.
You might also look at org-element.el which I recently learned about
which may also help. I have it on my TODO list to learn more about it
to see if I can't refactor org-toodledo to leverage it. It is more
geared toward generic org items as opposed to specifically TODO items.
...cj
On 6/22/12 2:40 AM, Sriram Karra wrote:
> I am the author of ASynK (http://karra-asynk.appspot.com), a PIM sync
> tool and framework written in python that works across a variety of PIM
> providers such as Outlook, Google and BBDB. I am considering extending
> ASynK to do a bi-directional sync of Outlook tasks to Org Mode tasks. To
> be able to do this I need a working read/write API for reading and
> creating TODOs in org mode.
>
> *"Offline parsers"*
>
> My first preference is to be able to parser org files without required
> Emacs - this is the approach that I have implemented for BBDB sync. I
> considered PyOrgMode (https://github.com/bjonnh/PyOrgMode/network), but
> it appears unable to process TODOs, or even recurring events. To be able
> to extend PyOrgMode so I can read and write TODOs, I needed a full
> description of the format of TODO entries in all its forms. The Org
> manual itself has this information, I'm sure but scattered all over the
> place, given its real audience. Can someone point me to some sort of a
> concise representation, if any, of the org file format grammar?
>
> *org-protocol*
> *
> *
> By quickly reading the documentation I figured that org-protocol can be
> used to create entries, but is there a way to use it to do generic
> queries like "list all TODOs in a specified file, with a particular
> property value" and such?
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> -Karra
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-22 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-22 6:40 Org Mode TOOD two way sync tool Sriram Karra
2012-06-22 12:03 ` Christopher J. White [this message]
2012-06-22 12:33 ` Sriram Karra
2012-06-22 14:05 ` Christopher J. White
2012-06-24 13:15 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-06-24 13:17 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-06-24 17:07 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2012-06-25 12:32 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-06-25 13:51 ` Sriram Karra
2012-06-25 14:41 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2012-06-25 15:29 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2012-10-07 19:48 ` Jonathan BISSON
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