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?
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.

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

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?



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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>
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