Hi, adding a +1 for a sync between Calendar apps (Google and/or Apple) and MLO.
I use android and my Google Calendar is what I use to run my life. However, I like to use MLO for my plans, goals and things to do, including scheduling when I start these things and when they are due. Having 2 apps to do all this just doesn't work. It's inefficient and things get lost between the 2. There is a sync between MLO (desktop) and Outlook, however this comes with all sorts of other problems, mainly because of Outlook. I still can't get the Calendar sync with Google to work reliably. The 2 key calendar & task cloud platforms are Google and iOS. MLO already has a cloud sync and Outlook sync. When can we have a sync for Tasks for Google and iOS? On Monday, 3 July 2017 19:26:02 UTC+10, Damo Skees wrote: > > I've been trying for years, but much as I love MLO, the one thing I have > trouble doing is scheduling my tasks. > > I know that GTD preaches against this, and I know that many productivity > coaches also advise against scheduling tasks. I admit that I'm still > terrible at completing a task in the calendar even if I do schedule it, but > at least it's there, and it's a motivator. > > There are a few things that keep failing me on MLO / GTD that scheduling > would help: > - Planning - I can't plan a series of tasks for a due date - eg. report > due end of week, and five subtasks across the week. > - Overbooking - every time I get an organisational spurt, I start planning > out several goals for the week - invariably I overbook myself, fail to > complete each day, become demoralised, and just fall further back as the > week progresses > - Reporting - If someone asks me "what are you doing on Thursday", GTD > (and MLO) doesn't give me visibility that I'll be really busy then, because > I have deliverables on Friday. There's just a collection of tasks between > now and then, with no depiction of how to space them out > - Modifying dates - Probably the reason for not scheduling tasks, is that > you then spend hours re-scheduling them! It's clunky in almost every to-do > app - manually changing a date/time without being able to see the calendar > underneath it. It should really be drag'n'drop. > > What I would really like, is to be able to *have scheduled tasks appear > in my calendar!* > More than that - I would like to be able to *drag'n'drop* them around in > my calendar! > > So the flow would go something like this (and in *Gqueues*, below, it > does): > - I look at my calendar for the week in my native calendar application (I > use MacOS ical / IOS Calendar) > - On it, in a different colour (different Google sub-calendar, for > example), are some tasks I scheduled for a deliverable for end of month > - I check my next 2-3 days, and drag them around to better fit any new > meetings. > - The changes are synced back to MLO, and I check in the main projects to > see what that does to the due dates for each > - I'm looking overbooked, so I postpone an internal project to next week, > and advise my boss > - As the day goes on, I drag, extend, etc. these scheduled tasks in ical > or calendar as things change > - As always, if my boss asks me for the forecast on a project, I can look > at the project view and see all the dates as I currently have them > > The trick is syncing to the native calendar app. Rather than spend huge > effort designing a calendar UI, interaction, etc. - why not just design an > API that talks to CalDAV, iCal, etc which is two-way? > > > I've found three apps that do this so far: > > - Asana <https://asana.com/guide/help/views/calendar> - Big Heavyweight, > but not great in this feature. Tasks can only be given a date, not a time, > so they appear as 'all day'. The ICS feed to iCAL is one way, so you can > view tasks in a particular day, but not move them around - you have to go > back to Asana for that. But they do have their own calendar view, where you > can drag/drop. > - Todoist > <https://support.todoist.com/hc/en-us/articles/208789889-Using-Todoist-with-your-Calendar> > > - Also apparently claim to have implemented calendar view and two-way sync > in the calendar. I've not tested it yet. The two-way sync only works with > Google Calendar > <https://support.todoist.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003128085%5C>, for > others it's one-way > - Gqueues <https://www.gqueues.com/help/calendarIntegration> - This is > the one I'm currently testing. Again, it does permit native two-way sync in > iCal, and it's very quick as well. > > I've been using GQueues, and the UX is as I'd like. Whether it actually > helps me meet deadlines, is something I'm currently testing. > > > But - MLO is so good in so many other ways. I would really like to have > this feature in MLO - perhaps as a checkbox on a task for 'schedule task', > to flag that it should sync to the calendar. MLO already has cloud sync, so > perhaps a calendar sync could be built as an API from it? > > > > Damo > -- 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/3fe4d524-3079-4da8-98be-52161e1f140a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
