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Is there a way to use Emacs to sync with Google Calendar and Google Contacts, ideally keeping a local copy so I can access them offline?

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Why? What? What can emacs do with that information? – Nifle Sep 10 '10 at 16:27
I just like to see if I can use/manage my Google Calendar and Contacts in Emacs as part of an attempt to consolidate my work into one, free and open source, package. – hpy Sep 10 '10 at 16:41
Also asked at Unix.SE. – Gilles Sep 10 '10 at 20:23
@Nifle "What can emacs do with that information?" What part of calendar and contact syncing is odd? you can use emacs as a diary/agenda and a mail client. Why wouldn't you want your calendar and contacts to sync? – kjfletch Jan 15 '11 at 22:50
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The Emacs wiki mentions emacs-g-client for access to Google calendar. It was written in 2007, which is old by web service standards, so it may or may not still work.

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Just checked their discussion group, last post in 2009. Will try it, tough. Thanks! – hpy Sep 10 '10 at 18:14
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I don't imagine there's a good answer on the calendar side of things. Impedance mismatch between Diary and other stuff.

On the contacts side of things, there's some work done on BBDB-to/from-vCard.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BbdbExportImportSync describes some of it.

The seemingly most complete import/export is trebb/bbdb-vcard at GitHub. Again, there still seems to be some mismatch, so I'd mostly be inclined to manage the data in one place, whether that be BBDB or Google Contacts, and shove from the authoritative source to other places.

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