Re: [O] Google calendar sync - what is recommended?

[Rainer M. Krug]

Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> writes:

> "Rainer M. Krug" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> discussion recently which I did not follow to closely. Which approach is
>> the recommended / most stable approach in syncing google calendar with
>> org?
>
> We are in a state of flux.  For quite a while, I used a two way
> upload/download approach based on icalendar export from org to Google
> and an awk script to convert Google calendar information into org.  See
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-google-sync.html
>
> This is not a synchronisation approach.

True - I have seen that one.

>
> However, more recently, I moved to org-caldav for syncing.  There is a
> link to this package from that web page as well (at the end).  This
> works really nicely.
>
> The problem is that Google has decided to no longer allow caldav access
> to their Calendar system from sometime later this year, requiring people
> to access the data in the calendar via the REST API.

Google is doing strange hings at the moment - google reader, caldav, ...

>
> I have moved back to the two way upload/download procedure mentioned
> above.

Hm - I am thinking... We'll see what is coming out of this.

>
>> PS: org-unrelated gnus questions:
>>
>> 1) how can I insert these [1] footnotes in message-mode?

Perfect - thanks

>
> Use footnote-mode
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FootnoteMode
>
>> 2) how can I "quote" or "enclose" a block with these brackets in acsii code?
>
> I do not understand this question.  Sorry.

Please see the ASCII block thread - that one answers my question

Thanks a lot,

Rainer

>
> HTH,
> eric
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