📅 2025-01-02 — Session: Google Sheets and Calendar Integration
🕒 16:30–18:20
🏷️ Labels: Google Sheets, Google Calendar, Automation, Python, Integration
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The goal of this session was to integrate Google Sheets with Google Calendar to manage driving sessions efficiently.
Key Activities
- Curated Movie Recommendations: Created a list of 12 movies for personal reflection, focusing on personal growth and themes.
- Smart Monitor Documentation: Organized and debugged the ‘Smart Monitor’ project documentation using
pdoc. - Google Sheets Data Handling: Implemented a method to read and process data from Google Sheets, focusing on driving intervals.
- DBSCAN Clustering: Applied DBSCAN for clustering driving sessions data.
- Google Calendar Sync: Developed a system to sync driving sessions with Google Calendar, including live updates.
- Change Detection Workflow: Set up an automated system to detect changes in Google Sheets and trigger workflows.
- Webhook Listener Setup: Established a webhook listener using Flask for Google Apps Script integration.
Achievements
- Successfully integrated Google Sheets with Google Calendar for driving session management.
- Implemented event-driven approaches to optimize Google Sheets integration.
- Developed a Flask-based webhook listener for real-time data processing.
Pending Tasks
- Further optimization of the Google Calendar API interface for better synchronization.
- Exploration of additional event-driven strategies to enhance system efficiency.