This is a simple script intended to be run as a cron job.

It takes the supplied zim index file, and converts the task list to a calendar file.

An example:

[] [d:2016-01-01] Task A
[] [d:2016-01-01] 11:30 Task B

will end up in the index database, and zimToCal will convert it to

• Task A (full day event on 2016-01-01)
• Task B (an event at 2016-01-01 at 11:30 with a duration of 1h)

The 1h is hardcoded see issue #2

It require the icalendar package

apt-get install python-icalendar

or use pip or whatever other python specific handler you prefer.

To just generate the .ics file

zimToCal <path to cache file> <tag> > zimTasks.ics

Paramters:

• path to cache file

  Index file to get data from. The cache file probably resides in ~/.cache/zim

• tag

  Limit the calendar entries to task with the specific tag.

  Notes: This is not pages (see issue #1) and this doesn't handle that the tag i one among many.

It will most usefull when it updates itself automatically

Add a line like this in crontab (using crontab -e)

47 * * * * <somepath>/zimToCal.py <path to cache>/index.db > <path to calendar file> <tag> > zimTasks.ics

This will run the script once per hour at 47 minutes past.

I experimented with incron job, but that was not a good idea, since it ran the script at every update of the db file.

Do the following:

• Create a new calendar

• "on the network"

• "Format: iCalendar (ICS)", and the "location" is file:///home/user/zimToCal/zimTasks.ics

• "Offline support" is not needed

• Give it a name and a color. I suggest setting "E-mail" to none.

Clicking properties on the new calendar enables you to set it to read-only.

Note that changing the path, once typed is not possible (at least not in my iceweasel).