Roberto, I missed your email when you said you finished. I must confess, I have no ability to make your work into an app, but I would love to learn what you've done. Mind sharing still?
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 3:56 AM Robyn Webb <robynnw...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/3fe4d524-3079-4da8-98be-52161e1f140a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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