[kwlug-disc] Productivity Suites, calendars, and contacts

[Nick Guenther]

There are open source (find them in f-droid.org) syncs for Android: DAVDroid, CalDAV Sync Adapter. These work with ownCloud or any of the other DAV implementations. I'm using my.owndrive.com because I'm lazy, but you could work it out with your own config and software and server.

I wish I could use emacs' TODO file, but what doesn't exist well for Android is a simple file sync implementation. There's Dropbox, but the open source clones were broken last I looked; I would really rather just use rsync.

On December 2, 2014 1:23:20 PM EST, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Joe Wennechuk
><youcanreachmehere at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> So I guess my question is what is the best way to manage my contacts
>and
>> calendar so they stay sync'd across my desktop, android device, and
>> internet. What are some of you using for this purpose?
>
>Nothing special at all.
>All you need is your Gmail account and an Android device, and you
>already have both of them.
>
>Get all your contacts from where ever you have them, and export them
>to a CSV file. I did that from Yahoo way back when, and Gmail imported
>them all (on the desktop, not on Android).
>
>Here is what Google says
>https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12118?hl=en
>
>Then you spend several hours cleaning them, merging duplicates,
>...etc. Yes, it is tedious, but definitely worth the effort.
>
>Once you do that, you now sync your android device with your Gmail
>account. Automagically, everything will be kept in sync for you. You
>edit a contact on the phone, and it is on your desktop, and vice
>versa.
>
>This is the best selling point of Gmail and Android.

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