You can use a product called Taskline. It takes your tasks in Outlook and schedules them into blank spaces in your calendar and sets them as "Free Time" appointments.
Your workflow could be: 1. Create tasks in MLO 2. Sync with Outlook 3. Update tasks in Outlook with durations (not sure if this can be synced to MLO?) 4. Run taskline on a periodic basis to populate your outlook calendar 5. When task is completed, mark it as such in the calendar item 6. This will then auto complete the related task in outlook 7. Syncs back to complete the task in MLO I've used this product over the last few years and it's great. Added benefit is that it now syncs these "tasks" to your Android / iOS calendar app. David On Monday, July 3, 2017 at 5:26:08 AM UTC-4, Damo Skees wrote: > > I have the same problem. I've just been testing GQueues > <https://www.gqueues.com/help/calendarIntegration>, which has two-way > sync with GCal so you can drag/drop tasks around the day. Since GCal syncs > to iCal, iOS cal, it means I can see the tasks in my calendar view, and > just drag them around there if I need to reschedule- really easy. It's > weaker in other areas though. Apparently Todoist offers this too for Gcal > users. > > I agree that the iOS MLO Calendar view is pretty, but not useful for > situational awareness of tasks and meetings (compared to, say, week view on > iCal). > > Damo > > On Tuesday, 20 June 2017 23:45:56 UTC+1, Holmes245 wrote: >> >> I'm at a "crossroads" of sorts with my use of MLO and was wondering if >> anyone out there could help me. I've been using MLO for at least the past >> five years but I'm at a point where I need to be able to use a task manager >> with a calendar because I want to see my time-block schedule along with >> some dated tasks throughout the day. I'm testing out another task manager >> app that 2-way syncs with Google Calendar but the task manager app isn't >> that good, nothing near MLO so it made me wonder how others use MLO. I was >> wondering the following: >> >> >> >> 1. Do you guys use MLO only for projects or do you use it for your >> daily/weekly/monthly routines and agenda as well? >> 2. If you use it for more than just projects, how do you set it up to >> see both your daily schedule along with your tasks and projects for that >> day? Could you share your workflow? >> >> I know I can use Google Calendar with MLO for Android but looking at two >> different panes doesn't help see my whole day or week. I'm basically >> needing the Day View that you get in GCal/Outlook calendar with dated tasks >> showing up alongside. Right now, there currently isn't a workable solution >> with using MLO with any calendar out there. Anyone have any ideas or >> workflows on how to use MLO to help with this? >> >> >> (*As a side note:* I'm familiar with the core concepts of GTD but have >> never fully implemented it so I'm not sure if using GTD with MLO would >> solve this problem.) >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Joel >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/7c543613-1da1-4514-9bb5-74fec99b9b9e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
