From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Samuel Loury 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 Message-ID: <878u56v9dk.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87a8poiuxw.fsf@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48940) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5t48-0003Xk-81 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:30:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5t44-0002LV-Px for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:30:44 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-x235.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::235]:35178) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5t44-0002LG-Jx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:30:40 -0500 Received: by wmuu63 with SMTP id u63so134307873wmu.0 for ; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 02:30:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87a8poiuxw.fsf@fastmail.fm> 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: Matt Lundin , Xebar Saram Cc: org mode --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Matt Lundin writes: > Xebar Saram 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. =2D-=20 Konubinix GPG Key : 7439106A Fingerprint: 5993 BE7A DA65 E2D9 06CE 5C36 75D2 3CED 7439 106A --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJWZV/IAAoJEHXSPO10ORBqep0H/ibAGIIyyR+aLtgged4FTSsp XchW9yVWMuMg1DOlyOj1qSTA5z/txkR0Sh2wz94hfQN+piUrISJQMLvj5c0loW1U H5YH75iDsTXc8iYR9ENYosYhoQtyzmg0fpAg8V6ZNEBRmO47tAeAQ0T9LUzLNkHM Uzn17SBsUmfAheLnrAKaxbXTKmKUIpPHcM6cU8sW9IRSK/cyFJ8B0NfucbTvzFD5 4xbEO57PU9+7sdh+UXlUEJ6zooMUgfH/4nxs8FSwyV8QdFHPhOX93IphYzCaaSWn fbp8Fh8FqvtkybzaR/k1dZM4CTxrAXGOJP9tvzalZc2JS7bYPDZLJEzj1u3Cusw= =hZ2I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--