Re: Narrative for Finding and Reminding

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 21:23 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 03:50 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> [Incoming email doesn't go into the reminders]
> > OK. Is there some place unread email *can* go?
> Your mail program's Inbox, as always.
> (I'm not yet sure how this intersects with Evolution's calendar.  Maybe
> Evo should also show your reminders in its own calendar?  Maybe we
> should store the reminders as VTODO items in evolution-data-server, with
> the associated files as the VTODO's attachments?  Maybe we should have
> another to-do provider for e-d-s that reads gnome-shell's reminders and
> exposes them as VTODOs?)

+1 That sounds sweet; the integration provided by GNOME really helps.

> Yeah, kind of.  Reminders as I described them allow you to say, "this is
> for some time next wee", but e-d-s wants a specific single-day date.  I
> don't remember if VTODO items support both DTSTART and DTEND properties
> ("to-do item that is valid only in this time range") - maybe you can dig
> up the iCalendar spec and check?

No, a VTODO component uses DTSTART + DUE or DTSTART + DURATION.  I don't
recall ever seeing DSTART + DURATION in-the-wild; it is pretty much
always DTSTART + DUE.