Comments on: Google Calendar Shortcoming: Notifications http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/20/gcal-notifications Alex King's blog - software, photography, sports, etc. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:37:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Surrendering To Google Calendar | alexking.org http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/20/gcal-notifications#comment-61232 Surrendering To Google Calendar | alexking.org Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:17:15 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/20/gcal-notifications#comment-61232 [...] little while back, I decided that I needed to start archiving data by year1. I still want it searchable, etc. but I [...] […] little while back, I decided that I needed to start archiving data by year1. I still want it searchable, etc. but I […]

]]> By: Google Calendar Alarm-It | alexking.org http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/20/gcal-notifications#comment-55650 Google Calendar Alarm-It | alexking.org Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:28:45 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/20/gcal-notifications#comment-55650 [...] little Google Calendar tools I plan to release in the future, so I went ahead and packaged up the code to add alarms to Google Calendars and created a project page to host [...] […] little Google Calendar tools I plan to release in the future, so I went ahead and packaged up the code to add alarms to Google Calendars and created a project page to host […]

]]> By: Alex http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/20/gcal-notifications#comment-53618 Alex Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:12:41 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/20/gcal-notifications#comment-53618 Good point, that does make it a viable option for getting SMS notifications. Good point, that does make it a viable option for getting SMS notifications.

]]> By: Kevan http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/20/gcal-notifications#comment-53617 Kevan Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:19:59 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/20/gcal-notifications#comment-53617 Well, if you make the main account an admin on the other accounts, then you can add events to those calendars from the main account. Again, not the best, but it ended up working for me since I only wanted two calendars of my own. Well, if you make the main account an admin on the other accounts, then you can add events to those calendars from the main account. Again, not the best, but it ended up working for me since I only wanted two calendars of my own.

]]> By: Alex http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/20/gcal-notifications#comment-53607 Alex Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:06:11 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/20/gcal-notifications#comment-53607 I guess that could work, but I really don't want to be logging in and out of Google accounts to add events, etc. I guess that could work, but I really don’t want to be logging in and out of Google accounts to add events, etc.

]]> By: Kevan http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/20/gcal-notifications#comment-53604 Kevan Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:41:02 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2006/12/20/gcal-notifications#comment-53604 One very hackish solution: sign up for dummy gmail/google accounts for each calendar you want. Set up all the relevant stuff for each one (SMSes all pointing to the same number - or hey, different ones if you keep your work/home devices separate, email all forwarding to your main email account, etc.), and share admin rights for the default calendar for each one on your "main" account. THEN, use each account as your correspondence point for that topic. Email will come to the appropriate box, and calendar events can be auto added to the calendars. I'm doing this, almost by accident, with home and work emails, since I ended up with a google hosted account and a regular gmail account. I forward any work outlook events to my regular gmail account, the event gets auto added to my gmail calendar, and then shows up in my view on my main hosted calendar. I can always tweak since my main hosted account is an admin on the gmail one. It's wacky, but it actually works. It'd be a lot of work to arbitrarily add (and manage more than a few) calendars, that's for sure. One very hackish solution: sign up for dummy gmail/google accounts for each calendar you want. Set up all the relevant stuff for each one (SMSes all pointing to the same number - or hey, different ones if you keep your work/home devices separate, email all forwarding to your main email account, etc.), and share admin rights for the default calendar for each one on your “main” account.

THEN, use each account as your correspondence point for that topic. Email will come to the appropriate box, and calendar events can be auto added to the calendars.

I’m doing this, almost by accident, with home and work emails, since I ended up with a google hosted account and a regular gmail account. I forward any work outlook events to my regular gmail account, the event gets auto added to my gmail calendar, and then shows up in my view on my main hosted calendar. I can always tweak since my main hosted account is an admin on the gmail one.

It’s wacky, but it actually works. It’d be a lot of work to arbitrarily add (and manage more than a few) calendars, that’s for sure.

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