Too many calendars!

[c9]

OK seriously people, somebody needs to fix the internet.

Outlook: must contain work events, also contains reminders as to what I or we are up to in evenings and on weekends.

SkillsWeb*: must contain teaching events and "not available to teach today" indicators.

Google Calendar: must contain my travel-to-teach events, so that everyone can see where I am and when.

I can make SkillsWeb write to Outlook. I can make Google write to Outlook. But I can't make Outlook write to anything else without spending money on synch tools. I dislike this option because I'm cheap.

Argh!


* ASP instructor resource system we use at work. I wrote the front end, another guy wrote the back end. Now maintained by a third guy, while I just write demands for it. It's aging somewhat gracefully, thank god.

Comments

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. I (well, UNB) had to spend upwards of $100 to get iCal, my Palm, Groupwise, and Google Calendar all talking to one another. Well, really, Google Calendar didn't need to be in the mix at all, but it was necessary to get iCal and Groupwise talking, and now that it's in the mix, it's helpful for external to UNB people (and UNB people who are afraid of Groupwise), 'cos I can just point them at my free/busy calendar on Google.

My Palm syncs to iCal via Missing Sync, iCal syncs to Google via Spanning Sync, Google syncs to Groupwise via CompanionLink for Google Calendar and the wheel goes 'round.

The nice thing is I can enter an event anywhere and it gets synched to all the rest within a few minutes... the downsides are that alarms don't sync, repeating events are dodgy (they need to be created on Groupwise otherwise they don't propagate properly), and CompanionLink only runs on Windows, so I need a whole Windows computer dedicated to doing nothing by synching my calendar.

[primary-suspect.livejournal.com]

Have you seen this?
http://www.jakeludington.com/ask_jake/20060818_how_to_sync_google_calendar_with_outlook_and_smartphones_automatically.html

The "sync both ways" implies it will do what you want.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Nifty! I will check this out.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Gah!!

http://alpesh.nakars.com/blog/sync-google-calendar-with-outlook/

I'm too busy now, but at least I now know how to get it working when I have a bunch of time.

Thanks!