From: Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug)
To: Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Google calendar sync - what is recommended?
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:23:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mwt6q25u.fsf@krugs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPaq-gP-ru-oVZ4P+2DAfncmWJ_MaQL9U+RrTcUopwPopzD8fQ@mail.gmail.com> (Torsten Wagner's message of "Tue, 9 Apr 2013 23:56:23 +0200")
Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Rainer,
>
> I have to agree with Rasmus, the question is, do you really want to
> sync to google calendar or do you want to sync your smartphone
> calendar (most likely an Android-based phone) with org-mode?
No - iPad and hopefully soon iPhone. But also web access and integration
with gmail
> In case
> of the last, you might omit using google calendar completely and use
> another service with caldav support. If you have access to an own
> server (a PC which can be reached from the internet), you might be
> able to even install your own solution. There is an android app [1]
> which allows syncing of caldav-servers with the Android calendar in
> the same way like the google calendar (in the background, without any
> user-interaction after initial set-up). Unfortunately, it is not free,
> but I would say it is worth the money.
I have used a different calender before, and it would work (I guess) but
I grew so used to the google calendar and its features / interface /
quirks that I am reluctant at the moment (while moving to emacs) to also
move calendars.
>
> E.g. I use SOGo + org-caldav + CalDAV-Sync to sync between my
>Android-based phone, a web-based calendar and org-mode. Works great.
>
> BTW. There is another Android app (CardDAV), which does the same for your address book.
>
> Hope that helps a bit
It gives me something to think about...
>
> Torsten
>
> [1] CalDAV-Sync beta
>
> CC: Completely OT but it seems you use notmuch too, did you manage to get address-completion working in notmuch?
Yup - I use goosync as described on the notmuch website and it works -
although not as fast as I would like it to work, but I can live with
it. Any particular questions?
Cheers,
Rainer
>
> On 9 April 2013 17:11, Rainer M. Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> As you might guess from my recent mails, I am moving away from
> thunderbird to org-mode. After having my emails covered and fighting
> with the addressbook (using goobokk as described here
> http://notmuchmail.org/emacstips/#index15h2 but would like to move to
> ASynK https://karra-asynk.appspot.com/ if I can get it to work and to
> understand bbdb...) and hoping that I can also get toodledo synced, I
> want to sync my google calendar with org. Now there was quite siome
> discussion recently which I did not follow to closely. Which approach is
> the recommended / most stable approach in syncing google calendar with
> org?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rainer
>
> PS: org-unrelated gnus questions:
>
> 1) how can I insert these [1] footnotes in message-mode?
> 2) how can I "quote" or "enclose" a block with these brackets in acsii code?
>
> --
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-10 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-09 15:11 Google calendar sync - what is recommended? Rainer M. Krug
2013-04-09 16:18 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-04-09 18:23 ` Rasmus
2013-04-10 7:14 ` Rainer M. Krug
2013-04-09 16:36 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-10 7:17 ` Rainer M. Krug
2013-04-09 21:56 ` Torsten Wagner
2013-04-10 7:23 ` Rainer M. Krug [this message]
2013-04-10 8:11 ` Fabrice Popineau
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