On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 07:21:06PM -0500, Nick Dokos wrote: > Russell Adams <rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com> wrote: > > > It's awkward having to mail folks back and ask that they resend the > > date/time and details as text for me, just so I can manually enter > > them into my calendar. > > > > You don't need to do that: you can save the text/calendar attachment in > a file and then use icalendar-import-file on the file to get it into > your diary. > > You can then copy the data from your diary or if you do > > (setq org-agenda-include-diary t) > > it will then show up in your agenda and you can copy the data from > *there* into your appt.org or wherever.
Wow! I had no idea that functionality was available. I just don't use diary... I'd prefer to use a capture buffer. I need to look into this further. > I suspect this is quicker (and certainly less awkward) than asking them > to send you text. The only downside is that you will not be a thorn on their > side any more, so they will feel free to continue with their uncivilized > ways - barbarians ;-) At least ics isn't xml. Then they'd be sparkly undead barbarians. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3
