Re: Status google calendar sync

From: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
To: Mark Elston <m_elston@comcast.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Status google calendar sync
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:44:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rmi62t7fnis.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D446CA9.80303@comcast.net> (Mark Elston's message of "Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:38:17 -0800")

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Mark Elston <m_elston@comcast.net> 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 still don't put anything on there that would compromise my
> privacy if it got exposed.

I find this boggling (where you will be in the future, and who you are
meeting with is surely a privacy issue), but clearly we have different
views on privacy and that's double-plus OT.

>> Maybe, we should all focus to improve mobileorg.
>
> I like the idea but won't want to give up the google calendar.  I would
> prefer to see my schedule, appts, etc in one place (on my calendar) with
> supporting data elsewhere.  This is what I would like to use something
> like mobileorg for.  There are already plenty of good apps for taking
> the google calendar and presenting it in useful ways.  What I would like
> is to be able to navigate from an event in a calendar to whatever notes
> I have in org related to it.  That is where I keep the details, notes,
> private stuff that I keep off the calendar.  It keeps the calendar
> clean and simple but I get all my notes as necessary.

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".

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.

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