Google Tasks
kevin.forster says:
Can the tasks, when being sent to Google Calendar populate the calendar rather than just creating a tick at the top of the day called "tasks for "
At the moment, I can't find a decent application to give me an overview of tasks shown on a calendar, as RTM doesn't have the functionality to hook into either Outlook or Google in a decent manner to show tasks.
At the moment, I can't find a decent application to give me an overview of tasks shown on a calendar, as RTM doesn't have the functionality to hook into either Outlook or Google in a decent manner to show tasks.
mb01915 says:
Use the iGoogle home page and the RTM link and you will get all the detail you want.
kevin.forster says:
No you do not.
What I require, is tasks shown on a calendar against times, so that I can glance at a calendar and know what free time I have during the day.
Take, for example, a typical day. I have 3 conference calls:
9 am for 2 hours,
11am for 1 hour,
3pm for 2 hours
In Google, this just shows as a single tick at the top of the day, and if I click the tick I get told:
9am conf call
11am conf call
3pm conf call
I have to edit each task to get the length.
What I want is a mix of the Google and Outlook functionality.
Outlook will show me each hour of the day, with the tasks assigned allocated to the hours (but marks each task as 1 hour so I cannot use this to allocate free time).
Google will allocate the correct length to each task but not show it integrated into the day.
What I require, is tasks shown on a calendar against times, so that I can glance at a calendar and know what free time I have during the day.
Take, for example, a typical day. I have 3 conference calls:
9 am for 2 hours,
11am for 1 hour,
3pm for 2 hours
In Google, this just shows as a single tick at the top of the day, and if I click the tick I get told:
9am conf call
11am conf call
3pm conf call
I have to edit each task to get the length.
What I want is a mix of the Google and Outlook functionality.
Outlook will show me each hour of the day, with the tasks assigned allocated to the hours (but marks each task as 1 hour so I cannot use this to allocate free time).
Google will allocate the correct length to each task but not show it integrated into the day.
emily (Remember The Milk) says:
Kevin, not sure if you've seen this already, but you can subscribe to the iCalendar (Events) feed with Google Calendar (details here). Unfortunately as Google Calendar doesn't support authenticated iCalendar feeds as yet, only lists that are public will work with it for now. We'll be continuing to look at ways that we can improve our integration with Google Calendar in the future.
kevin.forster says:
Ahh, thanks for the answer. I think I'll have to look at public for now and keep checking.
kowsmic says:
Check out my solution under "Calendar Solution?" topic from Sept 6.