Logging calls to calendar
 

Hello

I'm new here - moving from a android device to the n900.

For what I do, it's much better - except I'm missing a simple feature : call logging.

On android, there's an application called "calltrack" which basically puts the call log into your calendar. With syncing, it means you can easily see which call you missed if you have forgotten you phone, or which call you received on any given day.

A basic google search gave me no such app on the n900 - only this request : http://talk.maemo.org/archive/index.php/t-50452.html

Did the situation change since 2010?

At the moment, I'm thinking about taking something like extended call log from matrim and finding a way to hack out an ical "http post" feature.

But it would be much better to have that as a background function, active whenever a data connection is detected.

Which leads me to the next question : what would you suggest to quickly get started on maemo devel/crosscompiling to do specifically this?

Thanks

Re: Logging calls to calendar
 

I would love to see this feature implemented

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I, too, is something I've been wanting from the beginning.

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Interesting feature request.
What is the use case for this? Just to visualize call patterns?

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My use patter is memory based : sometimes I forget my phone at home and I love to see who called "in real time" from work.

Also sometimes I know I have to call back the person who called this morning at 10 or the person who called during the meeting with Mr X but I can't remember who it was because I was doing too many things at one. No problem, it's right in my agenda.

Call logs are IMHO a relic of the past. Their info should be versed in the agenda, where it can be easily searched/accessed/compared to the context

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I remember back in S60 there was some program that showed a timeline of everything you did on your phone. Photos taken, SMS, emails, calls, etc. and let you view all of them on the timeline.

I don't see any reason why such a thing can't exist on N900, you just need to find the intersection of people who are capable of making it, people who want to make it, and people who have time to make it. :)

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yeah even Windows mobile had that function.

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funny enough, the 900 lacks even of a basic future like alarm call, basically set up an alarm with call option, then select the contact or type a number and when the alarm goes off you can easily call with one click, i think it was on my sym3 n95

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negative on that one...
even took my N95 out to check it;
no way to make a "call alarm" on Symbian OS S60 :(

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ok, it must have been some previous model than.. i remember to have that function, and i started with the "soap piece" nokia 6600..

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You could write a simple python daemon to listen for the DBUS signals that are emitted on events like incoming call/sms/etc and then use the calendar API to fill these to your local N900 calendar (if you have working calendar sync) or just do whatever you want with them.

It shouldn't be all that hard to do, a prototype can be coded in an evening, adding polish would probably take a weekend.

So, help yourself. python is easy to learn and this forum has examples for listening to the signals.