From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Elston Subject: Re: Status google calendar sync Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:36:14 -0800 Message-ID: <4D44EABE.5070203@comcast.net> References: <4D446CA9.80303@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59965 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjP1T-0004Hy-87 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:36:25 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjP1S-0002dI-2t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:36:23 -0500 Received: from qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.48]:36907) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjP1R-0002dB-Nu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:36:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Greg Troxel Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 1/29/2011 12:44 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Mark Elston writes: > > [google calendar] > >> I wasn't all that keen on it at first but I really got to like it when >> I was able to update my calendar from my phone or my laptop or my >> desktop at work and all three would see it. >> >> When I found I could create multiple calendars and share *some* of them >> I really started to enjoy the idea of a central server for my calendar >> data. > > You are blurring having a calendar server and being forced into sharing > your data with google because of using non-free software that is > crippled by not being able to set the server URL. I pointed out in a different thread that the software I use doesn't *require* syncing with google, but can work very nicely as an offline calendar. I use the google server for the reasons I gave. >> ... > > org syncing with a calendar server makes a lot of sense to me, but again > that's separate from a "the only usable calendar server is google". > That wasn't my intent. I use google since it is convenient and available everywhere I have a network connection (or 3G with my phone). If another service came along that fit my needs as well or better I would certainly take a look at it. > > I think the only tricky part is somehow push UUIDs during scyning, and > then you'll need an operation to merge an org event and an ical event > with different UUIDs and remember the foreign UUID for the next sync. I'm not sure what you mean by this. I have never made use of any .ical/.ics files so this hasn't been an issue for me. The only UUIDs I am dealing with are google calendar's own internal UUIDs. I don't know how they compare with other UUIDs. What I am working on now is a python script to initialize some of the info I have in my org files with info from google (including the google UUID). Most of this will go into a property drawer. This drawer can certainly be expanded to contain additional data from other tools as necessary. What I would like is to be able to shuffle my schedule in org as it is often a more convenient interface for this than *any* calendar I have used for the kinds of things I have to do. Once I get the dates/times for individual events the way I want them I would then push them to google (or wherever). My notes and other useful data stay in org. That is what I will be working on as I have the time. Mark