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it would be great to import googles calendar to nirvana!
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it would be great to import googles calendar to nirvana!
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Support Staff 2 Posted by Elbert McLaughlin on 03 Mar, 2010 04:41 PM
yes... we are looking at the possibility of subscribing to calendar feeds. :-)
3 Posted by Proximo on 03 Mar, 2010 05:18 PM
+1 This would be great. Would love to have my Google Calendar sync. up with my task with Due Dates.
4 Posted by josvandervoort on 03 Mar, 2010 06:41 PM
Import?? My appointments end up as actions in my inbox? What would be the advantage of that?
Export?? My Today list as a list of items in my Google Calendar?? Same question....
Vitalist lets you export to Google calendar. I switched it off as it gave me two radars on my next actions and it only confused me. I like one system for my GTD.
Support Staff 5 Posted by Elbert McLaughlin on 03 Mar, 2010 06:48 PM
import, no.
subscribe, possibly.
i like the idea of seeing appointments from my calendar in my today list... but not necessarily as a task.
6 Posted by josvandervoort on 03 Mar, 2010 07:34 PM
That would be a nice feature. But then again there is only one radar screen and that I like!
7 Posted by Proximo on 03 Mar, 2010 07:43 PM
The way I use this feature with other services is simple. Any task that has a Due Date, shows up on my Google Calendar on that day. I don't see my entire list, but just the task that have a Due Date.
As we know, the Calendar is sacred with GTD, so you should have a nice visual reminder of what is coming up on your Calendar.
The Calendar is part of the Weekly review process.
This is important when you are looking ahead of if you have some travel plans. You can see your commitments on the Calendar and make adjustments if needed.
Maybe I am overlooking something, but this is real simple and straight forward to me.
Support Staff 8 Posted by Elbert McLaughlin on 03 Mar, 2010 08:04 PM
The trick for me is to avoid "syncing" data between systems, but to have read-only views in the "foreign" system.
In other words, an iCal feed from Nirvana that shows due dates in Google/iCal/Outlook, but that can only be modified by clicking back to Nirvana.
And the reciprocal, due dates from my calendar showing up in my Nirvana Today view, but not mutable... perhaps a link that opens the calendar event back in the original calendar app, but not editable from within Nirvana.
This would keep me sane knowing that I'm never corrupting data, or running the risk of having multiple entries with at least one of them being wrong... which happens in every friggin non-cloud based syncing application, right? I hate that.
9 Posted by Proximo on 03 Mar, 2010 10:13 PM
I am OK with that. I simply think it's neat to have my task with due dates pushed out to a visual Calendar. I don't care If I can't edit the calendar entry and need to do it in Nirvana. It's just an added visual benefit for me.
10 Posted by Onestab on 05 Aug, 2010 05:09 PM
I agree with Proximo! I don't think that we should overcomplicate the issue and open Nirvana up to corruption issues by evolving a sync/or push between Gcal/iCal and Nirvana. I simple subscription would suffice. I don't want to change my GTD system from iCal. I just want to be able to see on a calendar what I need to do.
David McLaughlin closed this discussion on 03 Feb, 2011 04:35 AM.