From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Subject: Re: ICS import?
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:50:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9802.1327513848@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com> of "Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:34:21 CST." <20120125173421.GQ3747@x201>
Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com> wrote:
> I constantly get invitations from Exchange users in .ics files that I
> would love to import into Org. Currently I manually input meetings
> into my Agenda files.
>
I share your pain.
> The format of ics files is hideous, so before I started to study the
> format and write something new I thought I'd make sure I didn't
> reinvent the wheel.
>
I've been threatening to do something like this for years, but my efforts
have stalled repeatedly for lack of time.
> Is there a way to import ics files into Org? Especially with proper
> timezone conversions?
>
Not that I know of.
In my last foray, I thought I would start with icalendar.el (afaik, part
of the standard emacs distribution); the trouble was that icalendar.el
was heavily biased towards, and intertwined with, the standard
calendar/diary combo. So my approach was going to be to split it into a
library part and a back end part: the library part would do the parsing,
returning a standard representation of the ics file and the back ends
(one for diary, one for org) would go from the standard rep to the
backend specific one.
Also, iirc, icalendar.el was an incomplete implementation of the format:
in particular, I vaguely recall that it had TZ troubles with at least
some of the Exchange-produces ics files (but that might have been a bug
in Exchange as well - I don't remember).
But after all these years, I'm still using the same manual method you
are using :-( So if you decide to go ahead, I for one would be
eternally grateful.
Nick
PS There have been occasional outbursts on the ML about ICS, so you
probably should search the list for what others might have done.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-25 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-08 20:41 Correct Way to Customize LaTeX Export? Peter Jones
2009-09-08 20:49 ` Russell Adams
[not found] ` <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com>
2009-09-08 21:11 ` Nick Dokos
2009-10-30 3:17 ` [OT] lisp func to write timestamp to buffer Nick Dokos
2011-07-24 15:58 ` Table formula to convert hex to dec Nick Dokos
2012-01-25 17:34 ` ICS import? Russell Adams
2012-01-25 17:50 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
[not found] ` <CALRk1sZc5JL_zY8Xnt+XDZfgqMmtQb4XXia4UmrP4f4sdOopCw@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <3023.1327520270@alphaville>
[not found] ` <CALRk1sZ9YC9ftvB4wK84i4-68FF3kYPwhuYm9n=iwvsKerRMRQ@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <4180.1327526628@alphaville>
2012-01-25 22:26 ` Matthew Sauer
2012-01-25 23:51 ` Russell Adams
2012-01-26 0:03 ` Arun Persaud
2012-01-26 0:21 ` Nick Dokos
2012-01-26 0:58 ` Russell Adams
2012-03-15 19:56 ` Latex Listings & Floats Nick Dokos
2012-03-19 15:56 ` table spreadsheet problem Nick Dokos
2012-03-19 16:05 ` Russell Adams
2012-03-19 16:25 ` Martin Halder
2012-03-19 17:42 ` Nick Dokos
2012-03-19 17:54 ` Russell Adams
2012-03-19 18:01 ` Nick Dokos
2012-03-19 18:21 ` Russell Adams
2012-05-15 2:57 ` ICS import? Nick Dokos
2012-05-15 3:03 ` Nick Dokos
2012-08-10 6:41 ` [Orgmode] Re: contact management in org-mode? Nick Dokos
2012-08-10 11:40 ` Sriram Karra
2012-08-10 14:03 ` Nick Dokos
2012-11-21 22:06 ` Babel source blocks Nick Dokos
2012-11-21 22:15 ` Russell Adams
2012-11-21 22:44 ` Nick Dokos
2012-11-21 22:53 ` Russell Adams
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-10-07 0:17 contact management in org-mode? Lindsay Todd
2009-10-07 2:21 ` Maurizio Vitale
2009-10-07 4:16 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-10-25 2:34 ` Russell Adams
2009-10-25 6:04 ` Charles Philip Chan
2009-10-25 13:51 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2009-10-25 14:14 ` Charles Philip Chan
2009-10-25 14:18 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-25 14:22 ` Russell Adams
2009-10-29 7:58 ` Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga
2009-10-29 15:46 ` Gregory J. Grubbs
2009-10-29 16:00 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-29 17:36 ` Russell Adams
2009-10-29 20:00 ` Alan E. Davis
2009-10-29 22:25 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-10-30 8:48 ` Uwe Jochum
2009-10-31 3:10 ` Russell Adams
2009-10-31 3:26 ` Russell Adams
2009-10-31 16:38 ` Gregory J. Grubbs
2009-11-20 14:32 ` Russell Adams
2012-07-19 11:10 ` [Orgmode] " Russell Adams
2012-07-20 0:57 ` Karl Voit
2012-08-08 12:04 ` Thomas Koch
2012-08-08 12:14 ` Bastien
2012-08-09 11:31 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2012-08-10 5:48 ` Russell Adams
2012-08-13 22:24 ` Semantics, Tagging, File systems, Tools, tagstore (was: [Orgmode] Re: contact management in org-mode?) Karl Voit
2012-08-09 12:04 ` [Orgmode] Re: contact management in org-mode? Sriram Karra
2009-11-02 10:37 ` Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga
2009-11-08 5:59 ` Ben Finney
2009-11-08 14:52 ` Matt Lundin
2009-11-08 22:22 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-11-11 13:19 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-11-09 6:41 ` Gour
2009-11-15 20:50 ` Sean Sieger
2009-10-31 21:54 ` Shelagh Manton
2009-10-08 17:13 ` Sean Sieger
2009-10-29 23:29 [OT] lisp func to write timestamp to buffer Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-30 0:47 ` Russell Adams
2009-10-30 2:44 ` Nick Dokos
2009-10-30 2:53 ` Russell Adams
2011-02-27 1:36 Startup page Matthew Sauer
2011-02-27 2:57 ` Dan Davison
2011-02-28 20:35 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-02-27 10:15 ` Bastien
2011-02-27 14:03 ` Christian Mandel
2011-02-28 11:51 ` Konrad Hinsen
2011-03-11 5:59 ` Ido Magal
2011-03-11 7:56 ` Rainer M Krug
[not found] ` <improv.philosophy@gmail.com>
2011-03-06 2:49 ` Bug: Org-Contacts.el [7.4] U-SWEETSAUERPORT\Matthew Sauer
2011-03-06 4:47 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-06 19:50 ` Matthew Sauer
2011-03-06 20:02 ` Matthew Sauer
2011-03-06 23:20 ` Bastien
2011-03-07 1:26 ` Matthew Sauer
2011-03-07 17:32 ` Achim Gratz
2011-03-16 16:19 ` Re: [Orgmode] Startup page Matthew Sauer
2011-03-16 16:45 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-17 10:34 ` Matthew Sauer
2011-03-17 10:52 ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-03-17 22:17 ` Matthew Sauer
2011-03-17 22:48 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-18 0:03 ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-03-18 0:08 ` Bastien
2011-03-18 0:22 ` Matthew Sauer
2011-07-24 8:00 Table formula to convert hex to dec Russell Adams
2011-07-24 9:52 ` Michael Brand
2011-07-24 16:39 ` Michael Brand
2012-03-15 17:45 Latex Listings & Floats Russell Adams
2012-03-15 20:33 ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-03-19 15:01 table spreadsheet problem Martin Halder
2012-03-19 15:32 ` Russell Adams
2012-03-19 15:45 ` Martin Halder
2012-03-19 15:48 ` Russell Adams
2012-11-21 21:15 Babel source blocks Russell Adams
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