Well, that was easy…
July 24, 2007
I’ve been searching high and low for a great way to sync my work, home, and Google calendars, using my Google calendar as the “central repository” of information. That way my wife can add events to my calendar without too much hassle - using my Google calendar. All the sync processes I’ve tried have failed for one reason or another. Here at work, we have a pretty hairy proxy/firewall and I got fed up with trying to work with it, so I pretty much gave up.
Well, I just noticed the Google allows you to import CSV (comma separated values) files from Outlook. I simply exported my Outlook calendar here at work and at home and imported them into Google. I could even color code things so I know the difference between work and home calendars. Just that easy…
Now if I can just find a way of automating this!
July 24th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
I dunno… I don’t equate import/export with synchronizing, but I might try it anyway. When you do the import, do you get any duplicate items (i.e. stuff you already imported) on your Google Calendar?
July 24th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Google is pretty smart. I can import over and over and it won’t duplicate. However, if I remove from Outlook, Google will keep the item. So, yea, it’s not really syncing, but it is easy to get the baseline going.