Chris, thanks for the pointer to org-toodledo. Does org-toodledo's handle
all the options and formats of possible TODOs supported by org mode? Are
you yet to implement support for anything that is parsed by the Emacs
org-mode?

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Christopher J. White <
orgmode@grierwhite.com> wrote:

> 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<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<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
>>
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