my-little-friends VS postprocess_Org-mode_iCal_export

;; parts of the Emacs setup is copied from: https://gitlab.com/skybert/my-little-friends/-/blob/master/emacs/.emacs (defun my-message(string) "Print out a message with mild formatting" (interactive) (message (concat "————→ " string " …")) ) ;; (my-message "") (my-message "START of demo config setup") (my-message "turn off backup files") (setq-default backup-inhibited t) (my-message "set start of week to Monday (not Sunday) as I prefer and it should be according to ISO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date") (setq-default calendar-week-start-day 1) (my-message "set encoding") (setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8) (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) (my-message "creating ephemeral configuration directories including ELPA storage") (make-directory "configuration/elpa" "also create parents") (my-message "setq user-emacs-directory to current directory") (setq user-emacs-directory "configuration") (my-message "setq package-user-dir as sub-directory") (setq package-user-dir "configuration/elpa") ;; local demo elpa tree ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (my-message "Emacs package management") ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (my-message "Initialise the emacs packages in case any of them overrides built-in Emacs packages") (package-initialize) (setq gnutls-algorithm-priority "NORMAL:-VERS-TLS1.3") (setq package-archives '(("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/") ("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/") ) gnutls-algorithm-priority "NORMAL:-VERS-TLS1.3" ) (my-message "Ensure use-package is installed and loaded") (condition-case nil (require 'use-package) (file-error (my-message "require 'package") (require 'package) (my-message "package-initialize") (package-initialize) (my-message "package-refresh-contents") (package-refresh-contents) (my-message "package-install 'use-package") (edebug-all-defs) ;; FIXXME: doesn't catch the issue (package-install 'use-package) ;; FIXXME: I get "make-directory: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" (my-message "require 'use-package") (require 'use-package))) (my-message "setq use-package-always-ensure: Set to true to have use-package install all packages mentioned if they're not already installed.") (setq use-package-always-ensure t) ;; ... more definitions and functions for the demo setup ...

🎞️ Slides: https://talks.skybert.net/r/2022-emacs-terminal-multiplexer2/ 📑 Emacs conf: https://gitlab.com/skybert/my-little-friends/-/tree/master/emacs 📑 tmux conf: https://gitlab.com/skybert/my-little-friends/-/tree/master/tmux

emacs conf: https://gitlab.com/skybert/my-little-friends/-/tree/master/emacs

Regarding creating the daily Org files: The script can be found here: https://gitlab.com/skybert/my-little-friends/-/blob/master/bash/org/daily. You may also check out my updated slide deck at: https://talks.skybert.net/r/2022-gtd/#/24

It's not bi-directional as you would expect it but since my Org-mode is always my "master" for appointments, that was no issue: I created a cron-job that exported my Org-mode agenda on an hourly basis in an iCal file during business hours. You can optionally post-process it with https://github.com/novoid/postprocess_Org-mode_iCal_export to remove sensible information, probably turning it into a simple free/busy list. Then I published it on my public domain (hidden file name) and subscribed to it in Exchange. This gave me full circle so that I had all appointments visible in both interfaces with easy to use Org-mode links to the Outlook items.

https://github.com/novoid/postprocess_Org-mode_iCal_export If you want to export your calendar from Org-mode to ical, this might be handy.