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39aldo39 / DecSync

Synchronize RSS, contacts, calendars, tasks and more without a server
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[Suggestions] Newsboat Integration + More Documentation #8

Open ghost opened 5 years ago

ghost commented 5 years ago

First of all, I want to thank you for this excellent program. I was literally looking for days for something that integrated my calendar and contacts between my Android and computers with Syncthing. I couldn't believe there wasn't something on Android that would let me just live-edit a ics file, but this is literally just what I was looking for. I can't believe how many times I scrolled past it on F-Droid

A suggestion: newsboat is an excellent minimalist RSS reader, personally I find FeedReader to be a bit bloated myself, but it does the job. I'm not sure how difficult implementing it would be, but I feel due to newsboat (seemingly) simple nature it could be easier than other programs. I'm pretty pretty entry level with programming, but I'd be more than happy to do what I could to try and help you out even if it was just testing builds.

Second, I'm having a bit of trouble getting figuring out how to sync between my phone, laptop, and desktop. I can create the calendars in Evolution and get them running on my Android fine, but having an additional computer work with it seems tricky. I can't seem to find a way to import an already existing DecSync calendar into a new instance of Evolution. The only options I can find would create a new calendar entirely, not edit the current one.

Again, thank you for the excellent plugins. I'll be sure to throw you a couple bucks when I can.

39aldo39 commented 5 years ago

Glad you like it!

Regarding your newsboat suggestion. It looks like newsboat already has support for multiple sync services, so I think it would be possible to implement. You can show interest in the feature in newsboat/newsboat#381. I won't implement it all myself, but I am willing to help with questions they might have.

Second, I don't think I understand your trouble entirely. Am I right that you successfully sync calendars between your phone and laptop (or desktop, doesn't matter), but you have trouble adding your desktop to the mix? If you add a calendar on your desktop, you should be able to select an existing DecSync calendar. Are you sure the DecSync directory is synced and that you selected the right one when adding a new calendar?

ghost commented 5 years ago

Thank you 39aldo39, I showed my support and posted my interest in the link you posted.

And I seemed to have fixed the problem, not sure exactly what went wrong--but one of the times I reset my calendars on all of my computers seemed to stick. I do have some issues with conflicts between my devices occasionally, but it seems to happen less if I manually make sure and publish/refresh the calendars and close them. Probably more to do with Evolution or my phone than anything.

Thanks for taking the time to read my post!

joelchrono12 commented 3 years ago

I just left a comment in the newsboat repo regarding the implementation of DecSync there :P