[Remind-Fans] Sync Remind and Google Calendar

[Justin Alcorn]

Careful, though.   DOwnloading and importing into Remind isn't really
a sync, and if you go both ways, you could end up with an infinite
number of events.

I do phone->Local ICS manually - the phone syncs to my google
calendar, and then I sit down every few days and grab the events out
of my google calendar, import them into my local calendar, and delete
them from google.   Since I only create a few a month on my phone,
this isn't onerous.

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Ed Blackman <ed at edgewood.to> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:29:38AM -0700, Oliver Zheng wrote:
>>
>> I have a server. But this is still a one way sync, isn't it? How can I
>> add an event on my Android phone (which adds it to Google Calendar)
>> and have it show up in Remind?
>
> I use the attached script to download several Google calendar ics files and
> convert them into reminder files, that I then INCLUDE into my ~/.reminders.
>  The script is called from cron hourly.
>
> It's a Python script, and requires wget in the PATH, and ical2rem in the
> PATH or $HOME/bin.
>
> Most of my calendars are private, so I've removed them from the list, but I
> did leave the public US Holidays calendar, so the script should work out of
> the box.  Just drop your ICS URLs in the urls list.
>
> The script also does some processing of the incoming ICS file during the
> download, so that various things that I don't want in the reminder file
> don't show up.  There are two: I strip "[wordsinbrackets] " prefixes from
> the ICS SUMMARY line (the name of the appointment), since I get some
> appointments from mailing lists that include the mailing list name, but I
> don't want that in my Remind calendar.  I also truncate the LOCATION at the
> first newline, since that's sufficient to remind me without including a lot
> of detail that I don't want.
>
> If you can write Python, you may be able to modify it more to your taste.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Ed
>
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