From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Newell 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: Sun, 06 Dec 2015 18:00:27 -1000 Message-ID: <87a8pmdi1w.fsf@bobnewell.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33926) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5myd-0006hD-AH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:00:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5myY-0004fI-3m for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:00:39 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22d]:33601) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5myX-0004eZ-Os for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:00:34 -0500 Received: by pabfh17 with SMTP id fh17so121147030pab.0 for ; Sun, 06 Dec 2015 20:00:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Xebar Saram's message of "Sat, 5 Dec 2015 09:10:30 +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 I take a slightly different approach. Google calendar is my main calendar and this works across devices including my Android phone and tablet. However I use the old-fashioned emacs diary, which org-mode of course easily incorporates. Diary is simple to work with. When I start up emacs, I use gcalcli and some custom elisp to fetch my Google calendar and regenerate the diary file completely, every time. On exiting emacs, I run a diff (through custom elisp) to find changes to the diary file and again use gcalcli to push those changes back to Google calendar. I don't try to sync contacts or notes bidirectionally. I do use mobileorg to make sure my tablet/smart phone has a copy of all my org-mode stuff. If I do happen to edit on the tablet/smart phone, it's a manual process to put that back to the master, but this is not my usual working mode. I have a lightweight laptop (Asus Zenbook) and carry that whenever possible. Overall I sync to and from a master at strongspace.com, which supports use of rsync. I suppose some day I should get away from diary, but it works really well. -- Bob Newell Honolulu, Hawai`i * Sent via Ma Gnus 0.14-Emacs 24.3-Linux Mint 17.2 *