I am the author of ASynK (<a href="http://karra-asynk.appspot.com">http://karra-asynk.appspot.com</a>), a PIM sync tool and framework written in python that works across a variety of PIM providers such as Outlook, Google and BBDB. I am considering extending ASynK to do a bi-directional sync of Outlook tasks to Org Mode tasks. To be able to do this I need a working read/write API for reading and creating TODOs in org mode.<div>
<br></div><div><b>&quot;Offline parsers&quot;</b></div><div><br></div><div>My first preference is to be able to parser org files without required Emacs - this is the approach that I have implemented for BBDB sync. I considered PyOrgMode (<a href="https://github.com/bjonnh/PyOrgMode/network">https://github.com/bjonnh/PyOrgMode/network</a>), but it appears unable to process TODOs, or even recurring events. To be able to extend PyOrgMode so I can read and write TODOs, I needed a full description of the format of TODO entries in all its forms. The Org manual itself has this information, I&#39;m sure but scattered all over the place, given its real audience. Can someone point me to some sort of a concise representation, if any, of the org file format grammar?</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>org-protocol</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>By quickly reading the documentation I figured that org-protocol can be used to create entries, but is there a way to use it to do generic queries like &quot;list all TODOs in a specified file, with a particular property value&quot; and such?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any help is much appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>-Karra</div>