emacs-orgmode
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [O] syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant


From: Samuel Loury
Subject: Re: [O] syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it?
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 11:30:31 +0100
User-agent: Notmuch/0.19 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

Matt Lundin <address@hidden> writes:

> Xebar Saram <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> So my question is (sorry for the long intro :)) what do orgmode users
>> (who also are heavy mobile users) do? do they give up on contacts and
>> calendaring on the mobile? maintain 2 separate databases? what tools
>> do people use to overcome this issue?
>
> There are lots of way to sync calendars. See
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-google-sync.html
>
> I've found the easiest method is a "poor man's sync" involving a
> read-only ics file (exported from org using the org-icalendar-*
> functions) and a writable calendar for new entries. (Trying to map org
> entries to ics entries gets messy.) The flow looks something like this:
>
> writable calendar (remote calendar for adding new items from android)
> ----> org files (with new entries pull from remote calendar) ---->
> read-only calendar (remote ics exported from org)
>
> I use a radicale server[fn:1] for this. Radicale has the advantage of
> using ics files as a backend (rather than a database), so I can pull new
> entries into org with Eric's ical2org.awk.

I do exactly the same thing, also with radicale running in a chrooted
debian in my android phone. I am not happy with this solution since it
is not bidirectional but I agree it is the easiest method as far as I am
concerned.

-- 
Konubinix
GPG Key    : 7439106A
Fingerprint: 5993 BE7A DA65 E2D9 06CE  5C36 75D2 3CED 7439 106A

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: PGP signature


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]