This one time, at band camp, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > What I want is a desktop reminder similar to what you'd get with > Korganiser/Kontact, Evolution and so on - something in-my-face that I > can't miss, but with an option to snooze/suspend. It should also not > be dependent on a Web browser being in the foreground (or even open at > all). Gcal and RTM _should_ allow for this easily, except that they > don't export VALARM parameters in their ICAL feeds. Currently I just > use the e-mail notification, but that isn't optimal.
You can cobble together a couple of different services to get what you want. imified.com provides an instant message front-end to RTM and Google Calendar. This could work well for your desktop reminders. I synchronise my phone with my Google Calendar using goosync.com's service, and find it quite stable and reliable. Having my calendar with you wherever you go is perhaps the biggest productivity improvement I've had in recent years. There's also a tool to sync Outlook with your Google Calendar -- sadly I'm forced to use Outlook at work, but this way I can also sync it with my phone. Finally, check out the Firefox extension that overlays RTM over your gmail window. It's very very cool to have your todos right next http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/gmail/ You're running kinda close to the state-of-the-art by putting all your stuff in the cloud, so it's not quite as beautiful as it should be. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
