Re: Re: Org mode release 6.04

[Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>]

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 04:58:29PM +0100, Leo wrote:
> On 2008-05-25 08:31 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> > iCalendar now defines proper UIDs for entries
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > This is necessary for synchronization services.  The UIDs are
> > created using the the org-id.el module which is now part of the
> > Or core.  If you set the variable
> >
> >  (setq org-icalendar-store-UID t)
> >
> > then all created UIDs will be stored in the entry as an `:ID:'
> > property.  This is off by default because it creates lots of
> > property drawers even if you only play with iCalendar export.
> > But if you plan to use synchronization, you really need to turn
> > this on.
> 
> Nice to see advance in this front. I wonder whether it is possible to do
> a direct synchronisation with google calendar using json.el. That would
> be very interesting.

See the other post I just sent - in theory it should already work with
gcaldaemon, but I am testing right now.  Of course bidirectional
syncing is a bigger challenge, but gcal.el from the emacspeak project
would probably help with this, or maybe icalendar.el, or both.