Feature Request -- Outlook support

[aparente-nurix]

Outlook calendar support would be amazing!

[tobiasbueschel]

+1 on this, this would be a great option to simplify daily notes and meeting note taking :)

Here's one example of how this could work (for my use case):

@lynchjames have you looked into this already? Once I'm more familiar with Obsidian plugin development, would be happy to help with the implementation!

[greenbereth]

@tobiasbueschel Thanks for the screenshot and pre-work

Problem statement: Planning and scheduling my day takes additional effort, because my calendar and my task management and note view is not aligned. I need to switch between calendar (caldav, MS Exchange) and my tasks and notes (Obsidian with day planner) to copy+paste my times. Every day this costs me around 2 to 5 Minutes. Additionally, changes or invites in calendars are not up-to-date. Thus, I rely more on my calendar than on day planner and spent less time there.

Aspects (for me to be successful):

• [ ] integration to Microsoft Exchange and CalDav
• [ ] update interval 15minutes (manually is a plus)

Success Criteria

• Save 5 Minutes effort per day
• spent 80% of planning / scheduling activity in Obsidian (with day planner) and 20% in calendar (e.g. to schedule meetings)

There are probably more great value adding functionality like placing specific calendar items in specific places in the note (as shown by @tobiasbueschel ), yet this extends (for me) the core functionality of having calendar items in the calendar.

Thanks a lot for the great work you provided so far for Day Planner

[FeralFlora]

This can be done using the ICS plugin. See: https://github.com/cloud-atlas-ai/obsidian-ics/discussions/74

[ivan-lednev]

This is available since 0.19.0, see README

[tobiasbueschel]

Thanks @ivan-lednev two questions on this:

1. Is there any way to integrate a calendar in Outlook (e.g., on Windows or macOS) that is not publicly shared?

Note: Published calendars are viewable by anyone with the link to the calendar.

2. Is there any way to automatically create notes or headings for calendar events?

[ivan-lednev]

Hello, @tobiasbueschel,

Is there any way to integrate a calendar in Outlook (e.g., on Windows or macOS) that is not publicly shared?

Your calendar is publicly shared only if the public has a link to it. If you don't share the link, it's not public.

Is there any way to automatically create notes or headings for calendar events?

If you'd like to have something like that, please create a separate issue and describe in detail the workflow you'd like to have with this.

[tobiasbueschel]

Thanks @ivan-lednev my first question was not about how public calendars work - I'm aware that only someone who has the link would have access to it. However, I'd like to avoid publishing my calendar to a public URL altogether.

Hence, my question was rather - how can I use a private calendar with obsidian-day-planner extension? Currently, it seems to only support it for public calendars.

[ivan-lednev]

Hence, my question was rather - how can I use a private calendar with obsidian-day-planner extension? Currently, it seems to only support it for public calendars.

This is not currently implemented. I think for this I'd need to implement some kind of authorization, and, as you understand, this is a completely different level of complexity.