Re: Org agenda to Android calendar without Google Calendar in the middle

2021-03-08 Thread James Harkins
Peter Hardy:
> An alternative Android app that you might like to look at is Orgzly

Hm, I think I'll start here. Good tip, thanks!
hjh



Re: Org agenda to Android calendar without Google Calendar in the middle

2021-03-07 Thread Peter Hardy


‪‪jamshar...@zoho.com‬‬ writes:

> The org manual page about syncing my agenda to my phone seems to rely pretty 
> heavily on an
> online Google Calendar as an intermediary (including org-caldav, if I'm 
> understanding the readme
> correctly.) This means the "normal" way to sync org with Android may simply 
> not work for me.
>
> Ideally, I'd prefer to use a local web server that I control. How would I do 
> that? (Or, is it
> impossible? Which might be the case if the Android calendar will sync only to 
> Google and nowhere
> else.)

org-caldav does *not* rely on Google Calendar. The documentation does
talk about it a lot, probably because that's a major use case and the
authentication is a little more tricky. But any caldav server will work
fine.

I personally use org-caldav to sync to calendars hosted on a private
Nextcloud installation. But others such as radicale should be fine as
well.

An alternative Android app that you might like to look at is
Orgzly. I've used it a little, syncing my org files to my phone over
webdav and having Orgzly send a daily notification of tasks due that
day. It seems to work well for my meagre needs.

--
Pete



Org agenda to Android calendar without Google Calendar in the middle

2021-03-06 Thread ‪‪jamshark70
I had been using mobileorg to transfer agenda items to my phone calendar, but mobileorg seems to be unmaintained.I live in China, which presents challenges accessing Google online apps.The org manual page about syncing my agenda to my phone seems to rely pretty heavily on an online Google Calendar as an intermediary (including org-caldav, if I'm understanding the readme correctly.) This means the "normal" way to sync org with Android may simply not work for me.Ideally, I'd prefer to use a local web server that I control. How would I do that? (Or, is it impossible? Which might be the case if the Android calendar will sync only to Google and nowhere else.)Thanks.hjh