From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: Org-mode is not able to manage complex calendar events Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:38:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87y60wfu05.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> References: <87aaddaqhz.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <2011-06-20T13-43-17@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52585) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYfcU-0007oM-38 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:38:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYfcR-0004g6-Bg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:38:29 -0400 Received: from vscani-d2.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.133]:59387) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYfcQ-0004fY-Ua for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:38:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2011-06-20T13-43-17@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> (Karl Voit's message of "Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:53:36 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: news1142@Karl-Voit.at Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Karl Voit writes: > * Eric S Fraga wrote: >> >> In my case, it's more about calendar events than tasks. My tasks are >> typically for my information only but meetings etc involve multiple >> people. > > IMHO: Org-mode does *not* seem to be made for managing calendar > events that go beyond simple one-time-occurrence events. I would argue that this is not at all the case, especially if you consider that org uses a tree hierarchy and tags so that one can group separate entries in a variety of ways, you can clone with time shift whole trees, etc. Most calendar tools require you to specify all the conditions for a particular "event" in one go whereas with org you can have a number of different entries for the same "event"... etc. Also, with sexp, you can manage practically anything you might like although, of course, it does require learning a certain amount of elisp. Recurring events with exceptions are not a problem, for instance. In any case, as always with computer tools, what works for you is what matters! For me, org is just plainly much more suitable for my mode of working; every other calendar system I have tried has constrained me much more. But that's *me*. > but you > *have* to support at least the same featureset of Outlook Calendar > in order to think of a (two-way-) sync mechanism to Org-mode. I guess this depends on what types of events you are likely to have in the outlook calendar. In my case, only a small feature set is likely necessary (mostly repeating lectures and one off meetings) so a sync should be possible. I don't think anybody is proposing a full-blown totally automatic sync mechanism between org and Outlook (or whatever) that covers the union of the two products' feature sets... insanity lies in that direction ;-) But I'll worry about this later this year when forced to use MS... -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 : using Org-mode version 7.5 (release_7.5.410.gadf1)