Hi Phil,
Not directly relevant, but here's what I use to synchronize the
calendar information in the other direction: from iCalendar calendars
to emacs org-mode. The whole setup is rather hacky and complicated (I
didn't really have time to make it more presentable) but it might be
still useful to some.
I have all my org-files in ~/myfiles/org/. File calendars.txt,
contains URLs of remote calendars I'd like to include in my
org-agenda. The first word in each line is the name of the local file
to which the remote calendar will periodically be downloaded:
-- calendars.txt STARTS --
camtalks http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/ics/5245
msresearchtalks http://www.srcf.ucam.org/users/pz215/msr.ics
-- calendars.txt ENDS --
Once a day I execute the following script (from cron):
-- update-calendars STARTS --
#!/bin/bash
orgdir=~/myfiles/org
diary=$orgdir/calendars.diary
emacs=$orgdir/local-calendars.el
$diary
echo (setq local-calendars '( $emacs
cat $orgdir/calendars.txt | \
{
while read name url ; do
wget -N -O $orgdir/$name.ics $url
echo #include \$orgdir/$name.diary\ $diary
echo \$name\ $emacs
done
}
echo )) $emacs
-- update-calendars ENDS --
It downloads all the remote calendars described in calendars.txt and
creates two new files. First, calendars.diary, which is an emacs
diary meta-file that just includes the proper calendar files.
-- calendars.diary STARTS --
#include /home/pz215/myfiles/org/camtalks.diary
#include /home/pz215/myfiles/org/msresearchtalks.diary
-- calendars.diary ENDS --
The second file created by update-calendars is local-calendars.el,
an elisp file that contains a list of calendars:
-- local-calendars.el STARTS --
(setq local-calendars '(
camtalks
msresearchtalks
))
-- local-calendars.el ENDS --
What remains is to convert the downloaded icalendar files into the
diary files included by calendars.diary. To this end, I have the
following lines in my .emacs:
-- .emacs SNIPPET STARTS --
(require 'calendar)
(european-calendar)
(load ~/myfiles/org/local-calendars.el)
(dolist (name local-calendars)
(let ((ical (concat /home/pz215/myfiles/org/ name .ics))
(diary (concat /home/pz215/myfiles/org/ name .diary)))
(when (file-newer-than-file-p ical diary)
(with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect diary)
(kill-region (point-min) (point-max))
(icalendar-import-file ical diary)
-- .emacs SNIPPET ENDS --
That's it. If you want emacs to notify you about your appointments,
take a look at the function appt-activate in the appt library. If
you use a desktop environment that uses the standard notification
deamon (e.g., GNOME), you can set up the appt library to use it. Take
a look at the send-notify command from the libnotify-bin package
(Debian/Ubuntu).
Thanks,
Piotr
On 23/08/06, Carsten Dominik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Phillip,
have you read this?
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/org/org.html#iCalendar-export
If yes, can you be more specific about what you are missing?
- Carsten
On Aug 23, 2006, at 22:46, Philipp Raschdorff wrote:
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Hi,
I'm using emacs +org-mode mainly for organizing todos and for
brainstorming in project planing and organizing tasks etc. So it's
mainly a (very powerfull) outliner.
I playes arround with the DUE DEADLINE features and realized that
there is one thing missing for me:
synchronizing emacs-todos / appointments to iCal (Mac OS X 10.4)
To make it easier: I really would like to have it one way: Adding data
from emacs to an iCal-file.
I'm using my mobile phone to synchronize with my calendar (iCal) and
it would be nice to have EMacs copying data to iCal and then have this
data on my mobile phone after the next sync.
What do you think? Are you using the emacs-calendar-functions and how
to you synchronize to other applications?
Any suggestions would be great.
Best regards from Berlin / Germany
Phil
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