From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Voit Subject: Android MobileOrg and appointments; ICS export and Google Calendar (was: OT: Android, external HW-keyboard and Emacs) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:33:39 +0200 Message-ID: <2013-04-23T12-24-41@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> References: <2013-03-26T13-37-35@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <2013-03-26T15-53-35@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <878v4li4i4.fsf@dod.no> <871uacutew.fsf@krugs.de> <2013-04-16T11-31-28@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <87obdedapg.fsf@krugs.de> <2013-04-16T12-52-44@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <57be1422-137e-4379-b618-cc324e9124f9@email.android.com> <2013-04-16T15-18-25@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <87fvyqf5yy.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <2013-04-23T11-02-40@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <87vc7dmuyi.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Reply-To: news1142@Karl-Voit.at Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37899) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUaXt-0005cJ-9K for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:33:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUaXr-0001kW-HN for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:33:57 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60021) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUaXr-0001kL-AJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:33:55 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UUaXl-0004uY-DH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:33:49 +0200 Received: from mail.michael-prokop.at ([88.198.6.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:33:49 +0200 Received: from news1142 by mail.michael-prokop.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:33:49 +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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org * Eric S Fraga wrote: > > I tried out the sync to calendar option in MobileOrg. It synced tasks > (i.e. scheduled and deadline entries) but not entries with just active > time stamps which are what I use for appointments. Too bad. > In my use of org, I have a clear distinction between tasks and > appointments. I schedule tasks to days but not times. > Appointments are not tasks as they disappear whether I attended > them or not whereas tasks persist. Same here. > I would like active time stamps to appear in my calendar for the > "at a glance" identification of free and busy times and for > reminders of when I need to be somewhere. I prefer to keep task > information in org and not in my Google calendar so MobileOrg's > behaviour is exactly the opposite of what I wanted unfortunately. Thanks you very much for this comment. This spares me trying out "Agenda > MobileOrg > Android Calendar" for now. So I have to stay with Google Calendar until I find something better. Related to this and in case of interest: I implemented a Python-tool to filter my ICS export file. It removes everything except few things such that I basically get a free/busy-only ICS file. I can easily share it with friends without having too much privacy issues. Get the tool at [1] if you need this feature. I also implemented a Python-tool that injects Google Calendar alarms for tags on appointments like :rem15: (remind me 15 minutes ahead) on [2]. However, this does not work yet because Google seems to ignore ICS alarms while importing the file :-( (No solution found yet) 1. https://github.com/novoid/convert_iCal_to_free-busy-only 2. https://github.com/novoid/postprocess_Org-mode_iCal_export -- mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML to Org-mode: > get Memacs from https://github.com/novoid/Memacs < https://github.com/novoid/extract_pdf_annotations_to_orgmode + more on github