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diff --git a/content/posts/WIP-org-agenda-online/index.org b/content/posts/WIP-org-agenda-online/index.org index b571517..f2cfdbc 100644 --- a/content/posts/WIP-org-agenda-online/index.org +++ b/content/posts/WIP-org-agenda-online/index.org @@ -13,38 +13,39 @@ work. A lot of this workflow centres around the [[https://orgmode.org/features.h compiles all the current and upcoming tasks and due dates from several files into a single view. -The only gripe I have with it, is that I have to be within Emacs to -use it. This isn't a deal breaker, but there were often times when I -want to check my agenda where I wasn't already in Emacs. In these -cases I had to open Emacs and pull up the agenda. This can feel a -little clunky for something I may check a dozen times every day. +The only gripe I had with it was that I had to be within Emacs to use +it. This wasn't a deal breaker, but there were often times when I +wanted to check my agenda, but I wasn't already in Emacs. In these +cases I had to open Emacs and pull up the agenda. This felt a little +clunky for something I may check a dozen times every day. The solution I came up with was a way to automatically generate and -export an HTML version of my agenda every 15 minutes on my server, in -a place where I can see it on all my devices. They are also password -protected so that strangers on the internet can't see my agenda. +export an HTML version of my agenda every 15 minutes on my server. +That way I can serve it over HTTP and access it on all my devices. +They are also password protected so that strangers on the internet +can't see my agenda. The heart of this system is a small set of scripts I wrote called [[https://github.com/dantecatalfamo/agenda-html][agenda-html]], which let you export a fully fontified view of the org agenda to HTML without having to open Emacs in a terminal. This means -it can be easily scripted. For convenience it also has an option to -export a text-only version. +it can be easily scripted. My org mode files are synchronized between my machines using a self-hosted [[https://nextcloud.com/][Nextcloud]] instance. This means that I have access to all my up to date org documents on a remote machine, which will come in handy very soon. -To start setting up my automatically updating agenda, I first clone -[[https://github.com/dantecatalfamo/agenda-html][agenda-html]] onto the server which hosts my Nextcloud. +To start setting things up, I first cloned [[https://github.com/dantecatalfamo/agenda-html][agenda-html]] onto the server +which hosts my Nextcloud. -I set the input files to the location of the org files I want included -inside of the Nextcloud storage directory. This would typically be -somewhere like =/var/www/nextcloud/data/<user>/files/Org=. I set the -output for HTML and text to be =/var/www/html/agenda/agenda.html= and -=/var/www/html/agenda/agenda.txt= respectively. +I edited =config.el= and set the location of the org files I wanted +included in the agenda. These files are located inside of the +Nextcloud storage directory. This would typically be somewhere like +=/var/www/nextcloud/data/<user>/files/Org=. I then set the output for +HTML to be =/var/www/html/agenda/agenda.html=, so that it is served by +=nginx=. -I then put the =/agenda/= path behind basic auth in =nginx=. +To protect the =/agenda= path, I then put it behind basic auth. To do this I downloaded =apache2-utils= for the =htpasswd= tool and used it to generate an =htpasswd= file at =/etc/nginx/htpasswd=. @@ -54,9 +55,9 @@ htpasswd -c /etc/nginx/htpasswd <user> #+end_src I then opened the site's nginx config file in my text editor and -added this line. +added these lines. -#+begin_src conf +#+begin_src js location /agenda { auth_basic "Agenda Files"; auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/htpasswd; @@ -65,13 +66,15 @@ location /agenda { Then I reloaded =nginx= using the command =nginx -s reload=. -Finally I edit root's crontab file to run =agenda-html.sh= every 15 +Finally I edited root's crontab to run =agenda-html.sh= every 15 minutes, using this line. -#+begin_src conf +#+begin_src */15 * * * * /root/agenda-html/agenda-html.sh #+end_src Now every 15 minutes the latest version of my org files are pulled -from my Nextcloud storage and exported as an agenda, which I can -view from any device, and even set as the new tab page in my browser. +from my Nextcloud storage and exported as an agenda, which I can view +from any device. I'm also able to set as the new tab page in my +browser. I'm even able to check it from my phone now that I no longer +have to have Emacs installed on a device. |