[Remind-Fans] Sync Remind and Google Calendar

[Mark Atwood]

You should publish your script and instructions to the Remind Wiki

On Sep 29, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Oliver Zheng wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Mark Atwood <me at mark.atwood.name>  
> wrote:
>> Do you use my rem2ics?
>>
>> Is there any improvements to you you might suggest?
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> I did get something working last night, albeit very crude. Yes, I used
> your rem2ics file in the solution. Here it goes (all of this is done
> automatically in a cron job):
>
> rem2ics is used to convert ~/.reminders to a temporary .ics file,
> which is uploaded to a public server that I have. This ics file is
> tracked (i.e. subscribed) by my Google Calendar account. It turns out
> that Google Calendar takes a few hours to re-scan the ics and update
> any changes, but I find it usable enough. On my phone, I create events
> into a private calendar. And I created a python script to pull my
> default calendar for events (using gdata api), generate them into a
> simple remind format, append them to ~/.reminders, and delete all
> these events in my private calendar.
>
> This is an awkward 2-way sync, but it works well enough for me. If
> anyone wants that python script to prune your calendar events and
> generate remind format events, let me know.
>
> Oliver

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