I have the same migration problem.

I still use Google Calendar to share appts with my students. Sometimes they
mark an appt on certain dates etc...

My migration problem is threefold since I migrated from planner-el too and
I use remind a lot. I like wyrd for remote operation and I had remind -
diary - ical and planner-el very integrated.

I posted an email about this topíc a couple of weeks ago.

I sincerely think that org-mode would be improved from using remind. At
least until org-mode have all the calendar niceties that remind provides for
quite complex periodic dates and "strange" holidays and non working days.
Remind is quite a powerful calendar parser.


Wyrd (a remind interface) is a clean interface to see appts and schedule
even remotely.

Org-mode however exceeds remind, wyrd and planner-el as tool for
organization as a whole.


An interesting aspect is that we can use the "remind path" to automate some
of the conversion from ical (eg Google Calendar) to org-mode.

The ical -> org-mode could be done using the longer path

ical -> remind -> diary -> org-mode

Via

ical -> remind:  http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/*ICal2Rem*

remind -> diary:   Sacha's rem2diary

diary -> org-mode:  (setq org-agenda-include-diary t)


the reverse path could be directly

org-mode -> ical

.reminders.org.deadline
.reminders.org.scheduled

However  to add all my appts in
.reminders.org.deadline and
 .reminders.org.scheduled
  from inside org-mode

I think that

org2rem
from Bastien

is lacking a few features such as timed reminders and generates a non
completely compatible .reminders files

I have made some corrections and org2rem is working better now but it is
still lacking to add appts with timestamps (ie with no SCHEDULED: or
DEADLINE: tags)

If someone is also interested I cand send my version of org2rem

I hope this helps,

Daniel

2009/1/8 Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>

> As it's the start of a new year, I want to move my appointments from Google
> Calendar as the primary source to org. When my system in org is running
> smoothly I will export to Google Calendar on a regular basis.
>
> Searching back through the list there are quite a lot of snippets
> describing how people use org to keep appointments, but no overview. I would
> like to write a tutorial on how you can keep your appointments in org, so I
> thought that I would ask list members if they would post some details of
> their system.
>
> I am intending to keep my appointments in a dedicated org file (
> calendar.org). At the moment I am using a remember template which adds
> them with a tag of APPT. I the use a custom agenda view if I only want to
> see appointments.
>
> I am particularly interested in the best way to deal with repeating
> appointments. For example how do you deal with a weekly appointment that has
> a defined start and end date.
>
> Ian.
>
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