Re: [Orgmode] Google CL and org-mode
Reaaly good news! I am also willing to test any code available for this. Daniel 2010/7/5 Eric S Fraga ucec...@ucl.ac.uk: On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 15:17:16 +0200, Jordi Inglada jordi.ingl...@cesbio.cnes.fr wrote: Hi, Happy to hear that. Since I do not know Elisp, I can not help much, but I am willing to test any code available for this. Best regards, Jordi Eric S Fraga writes: Thanks for the heads-up on this. This could be quite useful. I've been playing recently with the org to google calendar interfacing and this new API could potentially simplify things significantly. I'll be sure to take you up on this ;-) I've had a quick look at the command line interface. With the simple python scripts they provide, it will be straightforward, at least on Linux, to upload entries from org to google's calendar. The other way is more tricky as the scripts don't provide full information on each entry. The APIs however might give that. Stay tuned! -- Eric S Fraga GnuPG: 8F5C 279D 3907 E14A 5C29 570D C891 93D8 FFFC F67D ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Diary synchronising with Google calendar (was Re: [Orgmode] Google CL and org-mode)
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 00:14:00 +0200, Daniel Mahler dmah...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Eric S Fraga ucec...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 17:10:55 +0200, Daniel Mahler dmah...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Have you looked at g-client? Thanks. I did look at g-client a long time ago. It should provide everything we need but it's much more than I want to even start considering... I just don't have the time unfortunately. The google command line scripts, on the other hand, are straightforward and will give me (others?) 90% of the functionality I want. Mind you, I've been playing a bit and Google's quick add syntax leaves a bit to be desired. There's no formal specification and it doesn't quite work, especially trying to get a repeated entry at a given time of day. GoogleCL is actually a rather thin wrapper around the gdata python client library, which essentially just adds the commandline processing. Maybe the way to go is to call gdata directly via pymacs. cheers Daniel Yes, using pymacs and interacting directly with Google's API may be the way to go. However, given my usual time constraints, I'm going for the 80% solution, as described below: My use case is that I spend almost all of time in Emacs (and almost all of that time within org) but I am sometimes but not often away from one of my computers with only my Android phone. When I'm away from the computers, I need to be able to check my diary and maybe make the odd addition to it. I am not particularly concerned with note taking with my mobile phone (too annoying! and MobileOrg is probably a better solution for synchronised note taking in any case...) so the following meets this use case. I have two relevant org files: diary.org and googlecalendar.org. The first is the default target for inserting diary entries from org's agenda view; the latter contains all items scheduled from within Google's calendar application, typically from my phone, and downloaded and processed using the awk script I posted to this list last week. On the Google calendar side, I have two calendars: the default and one called org. The first is used when I actually schedule something using Google. The latter is populated directly by org using Google's command line scripts with this advice on org's diary insertion function: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (defadvice org-agenda-add-entry-to-org-agenda-diary-file (after add-to-google-calendar) Add a new Google calendar entry that mirrors the diary entry just created by org-mode. (let ((type (ad-get-arg 0)) (text (ad-get-arg 1)) (d1 (ad-get-arg 2)) (year1 (nth 2 d1)) (month1 (car d1)) (day1 (nth 1 d1)) (d2 (ad-get-arg 3)) entry dates) (if (or (not (eq type 'block)) (not d2)) (setq dates (format %d-%02d-%02d year1 month1 day1)) (let ((year2 (nth 2 d2)) (month2 (car d2)) (day2 (nth 1 d2)) (repeats (- (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian d1) (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian d2 (if ( repeats 0) (setq dates (format %d-%02d-%02d every day for %d days year1 month1 day1 (abs repeats))) (setq dates (format %d-%02d-%02d every day for %d days year1 month1 day1 (abs repeats )) (setq entry (format /usr/bin/google calendar add --cal org \%s on %s\ text dates)) ;;(message entry) (if (not (string= MYLAPTOPCOMPUTER mail-host-address)) (shell-command entry) (let ((offline ~/tmp/org2google-offline-entries)) (find-file offline) (goto-char (point-max)) (insert (concat entry \n)) (save-buffer) (kill-buffer (current-buffer)) (message Plain text written to %s offline) (ad-activate 'org-agenda-add-entry-to-org-agenda-diary-file) #end_src This does two things depending on my online status which is implicitly defined by the host address of the computer I am using (yes, kludgy at best): if online, the headline entry for the new diary entry (which is stored in diary.org) is sent to my org Google calendar. If offline, the command line that would have been used is stored in a file. When I got back online, I simply execute and empty this file as part of a more general synchronisation step (including git updates for my org files and sending any composed emails like this one ;-). This 2x2 approach (two diaries in org, two calendars in Google) seems to be working very well. It works for me because I seldom delete items in my diary and, in any case, I'd rather err on having an entry that no longer makes sense than end up double-booked. Repeated events with times, however, do not work as Google's Quick Add feature, on which the command line script depends, doesn't quite work. So only timed events for a single day or repeated daily non-timed events are processed correctly. There is also little (well, nothing)
Re: [Orgmode] Google CL and org-mode
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 18:42:05 +0200, Jordi Inglada jordi.ingl...@cesbio.cnes.fr wrote: Hi all, This is my first post to the list, so I would like to thank you all for this great piece of software that I use all the time since last september. I have a question regarding the recent announcement of the Google Command Line project (http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/). I was wondering if there are plans to integrate support for calendar synchronization between Google and org-mode using this tool. Jordi, Thanks for the heads-up on this. This could be quite useful. I've been playing recently with the org to google calendar interfacing and this new API could potentially simplify things significantly. -- Eric S Fraga GnuPG: 8F5C 279D 3907 E14A 5C29 570D C891 93D8 FFFC F67D ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Google CL and org-mode
Hi, Happy to hear that. Since I do not know Elisp, I can not help much, but I am willing to test any code available for this. Best regards, Jordi Eric S Fraga writes: Thanks for the heads-up on this. This could be quite useful. I've been playing recently with the org to google calendar interfacing and this new API could potentially simplify things significantly. ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Google CL and org-mode
Hi, Have you looked at g-client? It is an elisp wrapper for the gdata APIs. It comes with emacspeak, but can be used independently. I have not used either g-client or GoogleCL, but wanted to make sure people are aware of all the options. Having either integrated into org-mode would be nice cheers Daniel On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Jordi Inglada jordi.ingl...@cesbio.cnes.fr wrote: Hi, Happy to hear that. Since I do not know Elisp, I can not help much, but I am willing to test any code available for this. Best regards, Jordi Eric S Fraga writes: Thanks for the heads-up on this. This could be quite useful. I've been playing recently with the org to google calendar interfacing and this new API could potentially simplify things significantly. ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Google CL and org-mode
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 15:17:16 +0200, Jordi Inglada jordi.ingl...@cesbio.cnes.fr wrote: Hi, Happy to hear that. Since I do not know Elisp, I can not help much, but I am willing to test any code available for this. Best regards, Jordi Eric S Fraga writes: Thanks for the heads-up on this. This could be quite useful. I've been playing recently with the org to google calendar interfacing and this new API could potentially simplify things significantly. I'll be sure to take you up on this ;-) I've had a quick look at the command line interface. With the simple python scripts they provide, it will be straightforward, at least on Linux, to upload entries from org to google's calendar. The other way is more tricky as the scripts don't provide full information on each entry. The APIs however might give that. Stay tuned! -- Eric S Fraga GnuPG: 8F5C 279D 3907 E14A 5C29 570D C891 93D8 FFFC F67D ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Google CL and org-mode
Hi, I don't know if this is a good point of view, but since Google CL is an official Google toolkit, I think it may more support and testing. When I tried to use g-client a while ago, I had some problems to get it working and often times the connection with google services was not robust (although I was using it from behind a proxy at the time). Best regards, Jordi Daniel Mahler writes: Hi, Have you looked at g-client? It is an elisp wrapper for the gdata APIs. It comes with emacspeak, but can be used independently. I have not used either g-client or GoogleCL, but wanted to make sure people are aware of all the options. Having either integrated into org-mode would be nice cheers Daniel On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Jordi Inglada jordi.ingl...@cesbio.cnes.fr wrote: Hi, Happy to hear that. Since I do not know Elisp, I can not help much, but I am willing to test any code available for this. Best regards, Jordi Eric S Fraga writes: Thanks for the heads-up on this. This could be quite useful. I've been playing recently with the org to google calendar interfacing and this new API could potentially simplify things significantly. ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Google CL and org-mode
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 17:10:55 +0200, Daniel Mahler dmah...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Have you looked at g-client? Thanks. I did look at g-client a long time ago. It should provide everything we need but it's much more than I want to even start considering... I just don't have the time unfortunately. The google command line scripts, on the other hand, are straightforward and will give me (others?) 90% of the functionality I want. Mind you, I've been playing a bit and Google's quick add syntax leaves a bit to be desired. There's no formal specification and it doesn't quite work, especially trying to get a repeated entry at a given time of day. -- Eric S Fraga GnuPG: 8F5C 279D 3907 E14A 5C29 570D C891 93D8 FFFC F67D ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Google CL and org-mode
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Eric S Fraga ucec...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 17:10:55 +0200, Daniel Mahler dmah...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Have you looked at g-client? Thanks. I did look at g-client a long time ago. It should provide everything we need but it's much more than I want to even start considering... I just don't have the time unfortunately. The google command line scripts, on the other hand, are straightforward and will give me (others?) 90% of the functionality I want. Mind you, I've been playing a bit and Google's quick add syntax leaves a bit to be desired. There's no formal specification and it doesn't quite work, especially trying to get a repeated entry at a given time of day. GoogleCL is actually a rather thin wrapper around the gdata python client library, which essentially just adds the commandline processing. Maybe the way to go is to call gdata directly via pymacs. cheers Daniel -- Eric S Fraga GnuPG: 8F5C 279D 3907 E14A 5C29 570D C891 93D8 FFFC F67D ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Google CL and org-mode
Hi all, This is my first post to the list, so I would like to thank you all for this great piece of software that I use all the time since last september. I have a question regarding the recent announcement of the Google Command Line project (http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/). I was wondering if there are plans to integrate support for calendar synchronization between Google and org-mode using this tool. Best regards, Jordi ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
