[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Weekly/Monthly Appointment View

[Edgar Gonçalves]

On Friday, Gregory Novak wrote:
> I would like to get a nice weekly/monthly view of appointments
> (everything from dentist's appointments to vacation time), using
> Planner, Diary, or some combination.  I looked through the info files
> for both and through some of the source code for both, so far with no
> joy.
>
> I seem to remember some discussion of this on the mailing list.  True?
True. I worked up some lines of code to adapt weekly-view to be
"planner-appointments"-friendly, with success. As for the monthly view, I have
no idea if there is such code written, yet.

Besides being a bit swamped right now, I need to change the way I handle
calendar. Obviously Emacs will not show a pretty (graphically, I mean)
calendar, with enough eye-candy to be usable. But there are minimalistic
approaches to montly calendars - consider smartphones calendar's way of showing
up a week, or a month! So I believe we are lacking a couple of important
things:
1) A full re-write of weekly-view (perhaps bundled together with a new
   montly-view). The existing one (even my hacked-up version) isn't easily
   manageable, imho (although working relatively well, for most of the
   times). But we are in an open-source world, so code should be easy to
   extend, modify and - more important, for me, at least - read!
2) A complete synchronization mechanism with iCal (at least). Personally, my
   current goal is to export my emacs agenda contents to google calendar and to
   import many external icalendars. This importation could be done to a
   specific plan page, for instance, but I'd rather have a way to call
   something like (ical-view-week start-date location), where location would be
   a file or an URL for an iCal file.

I'm afraid I can't get my hands on this for the next couple of months, I
think... But I'll encourage further discussion on this topic - it needs some
momentum to get people to like it!

Cheers,

-- 
Edgar Gonçalves