Re: org-toodledo : sycning org-mode and Toodledo

[Mark Elston <m_elston@comcast.net>]

I just noticed, however, that setting a Deadline in Toodledo
does set the DEADLINE in org.

Guess I need to start diving into the code.

Mark

On 5/20/2010 2:42 PM, Mark Elston wrote:
> Sven,
>
> I have been playing with this today as well and can't get DEADLINES
> to work. How did you do it? When I set a deadline in org and sync
> it doesn't show up in Toodledo.
>
> In fact, I set a Start Date in Toodledo and did an update and
> my Scheduled date in org went away.
>
>
> Mark
>
> On 5/20/2010 2:18 AM, Sven Bretfeld wrote:
>> Hi Giovanni and all others
>>
>> Giovanni Ridolfi<giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it> writes:
>>
>>> Just for information:
>>>
>>> Two days ago (May 16th, 2010 ) Sacha Chua published a blog post with
>>> her contribution to org-toodledo.el - Toodledo integration for Emacs
>>> Org mode
>>>
>>> http://sachachua.com/wp/2010/05/org-toodledo/
>>>
>>> The code is available also on GitHub at
>>> http://github.com/sachac/org-toodledo
>>>
>>> Perhaps it is worth to look at it.
>>
>> Yes it definitely is. I'm playing with it at the moment. There are also
>> some Toodledo clients available for Android.
>>
>> Here are some problems I encountered:
>>
>> 1. _Tags are ignored._
>>
>> Toodledo discriminates between Contexts and Tags. The preamble of
>> org-toodledo.el states that both are mapped to what is called tags in
>> orgmode (e.g. :@HOME:). But Toodledo-tags are ignored in the
>> sync-process (both ways), while contexts are working fine.
>>
>> 2. _Start Dates are ignored._
>>
>> Toodledo's Start Dates should be mapped to SCHEDULED in orgmode
>> according to the preamble. This is also not working for me. DEADLINE
>> (Due Date) is working fine.
>>
>> 3. _Diacritics_
>>
>> German (and probably other) umlauts break the upload. A task like
>> ** TODO Test für Uploads
>> ends up like "Test f" in Toodledo. Downloading similar entries end up in
>> the wrong encoding in orgmode.
>>
>> 4. _Time_
>>
>> Using the Due Time field (instead of Due Date) in Toodledo breaks the
>> sync process: "Wrong type argument: stringp nil".
>>
>> 5. _Appointments?_
>>
>> Is there any way to use normal active timestamps? Toodledo has no
>> calender nor a function for appointments. It would be nice to use
>> Toodledo to at least capture appointments. I've tried to
>> manually add a timestamp like<2010-05-27 11:00> to the headline or
>> the textfield, but that doesn't work due to the encoding problem
>> mentioned above: The< character will be changed during the sync
>> process.
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Sven
>
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