From: Samuel Loury <konubinix@gmail.com>
To: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>, Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com>
Cc: org mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it?
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 11:30:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878u56v9dk.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8poiuxw.fsf@fastmail.fm>
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Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
> Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> So my question is (sorry for the long intro :)) what do orgmode users
>> (who also are heavy mobile users) do? do they give up on contacts and
>> calendaring on the mobile? maintain 2 separate databases? what tools
>> do people use to overcome this issue?
>
> There are lots of way to sync calendars. See
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-google-sync.html
>
> I've found the easiest method is a "poor man's sync" involving a
> read-only ics file (exported from org using the org-icalendar-*
> functions) and a writable calendar for new entries. (Trying to map org
> entries to ics entries gets messy.) The flow looks something like this:
>
> writable calendar (remote calendar for adding new items from android)
> ----> org files (with new entries pull from remote calendar) ---->
> read-only calendar (remote ics exported from org)
>
> I use a radicale server[fn:1] for this. Radicale has the advantage of
> using ics files as a backend (rather than a database), so I can pull new
> entries into org with Eric's ical2org.awk.
I do exactly the same thing, also with radicale running in a chrooted
debian in my android phone. I am not happy with this solution since it
is not bidirectional but I agree it is the easiest method as far as I am
concerned.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-07 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-05 7:10 syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? Xebar Saram
2015-12-05 14:08 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-12-05 15:12 ` Xebar Saram
2015-12-05 17:43 ` Bingo UV
2015-12-07 12:09 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-12-07 12:48 ` Detlef Steuer
2015-12-05 18:58 ` Matt Lundin
2015-12-07 10:30 ` Samuel Loury [this message]
2016-01-27 14:02 ` syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device Karl Voit
2015-12-06 18:27 ` syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it? Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-12-07 4:00 ` Bob Newell
2015-12-07 9:15 ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
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