Comments on: Surrendering To Google Calendar

By: Don

Don — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:37:31 +0000

I have tried loads of calendar syncing software to sync between outlook/exchange and google calendar - loads! The best one I got to work was SynmyCal and have been using it for at least 6 months now and it really works well. Very flexible. Windows only obviously - maybe they’ll do a mac version?

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:17:31 +0000

I’ve tried Zimbra - the OTA sync to the BlackBerry is very expensive, and the sync was silently deleting my data (same reason I ditched Plaxo).

By: Njick

Njick — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:03:33 +0000

We use zimbra in my office … and everything syncs as a charm, believe it or not: mac, symbian phone, iphone, even my damn vista laptop.

By: tom

tom — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:02:39 +0000

I can’t read.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:06:51 +0000

Shirin–

Thanks for coming by and sharing the information about the SMS notifications. I’d much rather have the calendar alarms on my BlackBerry for all of my calendars, but it’s nice to know the way this works.

I like annual archives of my iCalendars because it makes it easier to do things with the data. For example, I only want to be passing relevant data around to various web services - why make them parse my calendar from 1997-2008 (which I have) when all the relevant stuff is in 2007-2008? I’ve found that annual archives work well for this.

tom–

yep.

Now I get SMS notifications for my business appointments and I can create business appointments via SMS.

By: tom

tom — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:54:41 +0000

Have you tried creating an event through SMS?

I talk about it at my blog but here’s the recap:

You can even add events through SMS. I sent an SMS to 48368 with “Gymnasitcs Saturday 10:00am” and it added the event to my calendar. It even added my default three alarms/reminders.

By: Shirin

Shirin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:12:52 +0000

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know that you can actually register the same phone number to multiple Google Calendar accounts, i.e., you can set up the same phone number to receive SMS notifications on your work calendar and your personal calendar. The only problem is that you can only use our GVENT service to create events via SMS for one calendar. The events should be created on the last account for which you verified the phone number.

Also, why do you want to segment your calendar by year into multiple calendars instead of keeping them all on one calendar? I’m interested in knowing more about the use case here.

Thanks,
Shirin
Google Calendar Product Manager

By: William Manning

William Manning — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:06:41 +0000

I have been using Plaxo for about 1 years to sync all my machines (MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini and Acer Windows Laptop). I use it for all my Calendars and Contacts. I also sync it to my Google Calendar for work and personal. I publish my Google Calendar for Carolyn and my family so they can know where I am and what I am up to. I also have a copy of Carolyn’s Google Calendar. The only thing that sucks is that I am using Entourage 2008, so I have to sync with iCal and then sync iCal to Entourage. I am not sure about sync OTA because I am using the iPhone. I am not sure about a BB plugin. I know you ditch Plaxo before but they have improved a lot. Just my thoughts.