Xebar Saram <zelt...@gmail.com> 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. If you use google calendar you could accomplish something similar with the following workflow: a) Export your org data to an ics file and put it in dropbox. In dropbox, grab a secret link to share that file. b) Point google calendar to the secret link. This will create a read-only calendar in google calendar. c) Script a tool like gcalcli[fn:2] to pull and delete new items from a writable google calendar. Convert the data to org markup and add them to an org file. (This is the part that will involve just a bit of basic shell scripting.) For syncing contacts from BBDB to google or carddav, asynk works well.[fn:3] > I once had a nokia n900 which ran basically Debian linux, and thus > emacs could be run naively , these days it seems like all are android > devices. I still haven't found a gui friendly way to run emacs there. For fun (but not much profit) you can set up a chroot linux environment on a rooted android device and install all your favorite software (emacs, org, etc.). See https://github.com/guardianproject/lildebi for instance. By far the easiest way to access org mode is to set up some sort of ssh access to a computer running emacs. There are several good ssh clients for android. The hacker's keyboard app offers all the familiar modifier keys (Ctrl, Alt, etc.) Footnotes: [fn:1] http://radicale.org/ [fn:2] https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli [fn:3] http://asynk.io/
