- Posted by ploft on March 18, 2009
Lately a couple of my friends has asked into how my Google Calendar setup works, since I'm driving this as a central element in my daily planning. It's evolved a bit since I first started to use Google Calendar to be used across multiple devices and systems.
My girlfriend is also a happy user of this setup, allowing here to control her working schedule, since she's working with changing work hours. This has been an issue for a quite some time, since I never knew when she was home because my memory often gets flushed or reset every time I sleep.
My current setup:
4 main calendars:
- My own
- My girlfriend
- Our shared calendar (my girlfriend and me, for stuff where we both attends)
- Building/estate (this is used for registering worktasks, and/or different numbers for stat on electric and water usage)
3 special calendar, for some features that the Google Calendar sadly doesn't have embedded yet:
- Weather (Feature added from calendar settings)
- Holydays (in this case the Danish holydays, feature added from Google calendar "inventory")
- Week numbers (http://recover89.googlepages.com/googlecalendarweeknumbers)
The 4 main calendars are synced with:
- My Apple Iphone 3G (all four, changes are pushed)
- My personal pc, main Outlook calendar (all four, syncs every 15 min)
- My workstation pc, secondary/shared Outlook calendar (only my personal and shared calendar, syncs every 15 min)
- My workstation pc, as a Vista Gadget (my own and shared calendar)
- Girlfriends Nokia 6500 (her own and shared calendar, syncs once every day)
Now you might think that would build up events every day, and displays on some devices is almost impossible to get a good overview of your appointments, but luckily the different calendars are color coded.
The Google Calendar is the primary calendar, and to keep this simple we decided it would be the best (and easiest) that additions and changes has to be made though the Google Calendar webpage.
For syncing the Nokia phone with Google Calendar I use, I would guess Ericsson could use this as well:
www.goosync.com
Iphone setup for Google Calendar:
I'm currently using www.nuevasync.com, but I've heard that Google now supports push technology and thereby allowing you to skip nuevasync as a gateway/pass-through service, and connect directly to your data in Google Calendar, but haven't tried it yet.
Vista Gadget, Google Calendar:
http://www.eelkespaak.nl/2008/08/windows-vista-sidebar-gadget-for-google-calendar/