Discuss your iPhone/iCal/gCal/Tasks/RtM synching stuff here

[scootermaster]

So, I'm completely agnostic when it comes to this, but here's the deal: I have a hack and an iPhone. So what's the best way to get everything to synch happily? I'm thinking google, cuz of push. So far so good, but the only thing i've noticed is I can't get iCal events to show up on gCal. I can get them to my phone, however.

(Why would I even have iCal events? Things like evite don't happily export to gCal. So I can load it from evite to iCal, and then synch with my phone -- although not via push :-( -- but then it doesn't show up in gCal. Which is too bad.)

I'm pretty sure every other combination works: events created in gCal show up on my phone and in iCal, events created on the iPhone show up on gCal and iCal. But, as I said, events created in iCal show up only on my phone, and not on gCal.

ANNNNND, obviously, there's no to-do support from iCal to my iPhone. I'm using google tasks, and that seems to work, but it obviously doesn't synch to anything other than google tasks, and it requires a separate tap (to a safari page from my iPhone) to view.

Soooo, just wondering how you kids get all if this to push, pull, synch and stay organizized.


Thanks!!!

 

[Goosemaster]

contacts - mobileme, exchange (gal)
calendars - mobileme, exchange, subscriptions from multiple other sources
tasks - Things

I then use "all calendars" and use the GAL/my personal contacts as needed

 

[suklee]

I haven't had problems with iCal and gCal syncing after following this link: http://www.google.com/support/...l=en&answer=99358#ical

The only thing I can't get iCal to show (from gCal) are the other non-primary calendars such as sporting events.

I had less success with Address Book & gContacts (gCon?), even in Snow Leopard. SL was better than Leopard in that it would sync without hacks, but for some reason I can't get a few of my contacts in AB to sync over to Google, and thus my Windows Mobile phone.

 

[scootermaster]

That works in one direction -- getting your gCal events to show up on iCal -- but not in the other. The only reason I need that, is for facebook and evite events, you can import them into iCal. I'd like to then export that (automatically/via sync) to my gCal, which then goes to my iPhone. Is there any way of doing that?

 

[suklee]

Seems to work fine for me - are you making changes to the Google Calendar in iCal?

Your Google Calendar will now appear in iCal's list of calendars, and changes you make to your Google Calendar in iCal will be reflected when you sign in to Google Calendar.

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: Kai920
Seems to work fine for me - are you making changes to the Google Calendar in iCal?

Your Google Calendar will now appear in iCal's list of calendars, and changes you make to your Google Calendar in iCal will be reflected when you sign in to Google Calendar.

No, I don't think. I guess that's the issue: these events are imported into iCal and are part if iCal's calendar. I don't see a way of "transfering" them to gCal or anything, and it seems that iCal won't send these to gCal, although it will send them to my iPhone. Perhaps there's a way of doing it there? It would just seem to be a big waste if I had to manually input all facebook or evite events. No one else has run into this?

Edit: So I didn't realize there was an actual file downloaded with those "imports", so if you manually import the .ics file into gCal, all is good. Not a perfect solution -- and it's better than just selecting "open with iCal" when you click on the link -- but it'll work.

 

[silverpig]

I just use mobileme. The only thing I'm missing is the events on my iPod touch calendar, which is kind of a downer. However, the events are supposed to appear in the mail application afaik, but they don't seem to work for me.

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: silverpig
I just use mobileme. The only thing I'm missing is the events on my iPod touch calendar, which is kind of a downer. However, the events are supposed to appear in the mail application afaik, but they don't seem to work for me.

Not free! Boooo.

 

[suklee]

Originally posted by: scootermaster
Edit: So I didn't realize there was an actual file downloaded with those "imports", so if you manually import the .ics file into gCal, all is good. Not a perfect solution -- and it's better than just selecting "open with iCal" when you click on the link -- but it'll work.

You could import them into the basic calendar in iCal, and drag the events you want synced over to your own gCal calendar.