Sharing My Calendar with Family
NanetteAndrusiak
Outlook, which I sync to my Pocket PC, so I always have it with me.
The problem is that no one else can check it and it becomes my
responsibility to make sure nothing is missed by anyone in my family.
I don't like that. For one thing, it puts a lot of work on me, and for
another it does nothing to teach my kids responsibility.
I tried keeping a physical calendar at home that everyone could look
at and add to, but I don't like copying all the data by hand to the
calendar, and therefore don't do it often enough for the physical
calendar to be up to date. So no one in the family could rely on the
physical calendar to be accurate, and still had to check everything
with me.
What I would like to do is find someway to share my calendar with the
rest of my family. Ideally, a way of syncing my outlook with an
internet calendar. But I want it to be private, so only family members
can see it, and relatively painless. Does anyone know of a tool I can
use? I tried using my google calendar, but it won't sync with
outlook.
Thanks a million!
John Mayson
>
> What I would like to do is find someway to share my calendar with the
> rest of my family. Ideally, a way of syncing my outlook with an
> internet calendar. But I want it to be private, so only family members
> can see it, and relatively painless. Does anyone know of a tool I can
> use? I tried using my google calendar, but it won't sync with
> outlook.
> Thanks a million!
Which version of Outlook do you use and do you *HAVE* to use Outlook?
I found some software to allow Outlook 2003 to sync with GCal, but I
couldn't get it to work. I've heard Outlook 2007 allows this, but I
haven't seen for myself.
Almost every other calendar app out there I can think of allows you to
subscribe to calendars. Mozilla Sunbird is available for many
platforms and it can be used to subscribe to calendars.
The only option I can think of, and it's not ideal, is to use Plaxo
http://www.plaxo.com. You could create an account on Plaxo for your
family and everyone with Outlook could sync to it. It's no ideal
because everyone in your family could change it. But maybe that's
what you want?
Let me know if this helps at all.
--
John Mayson <jo...@mayson.us>
Austin, Texas, USA
84Monte...@gmail.com
choice, it's a staff clone PC), but I set a reminder in outlook every
Monday to create a CSV file. I delete my existing Google Calendar,
and upload the CSV file. The only thing that doesn't get added is new
stuff for the week or tracking my time for my monthly management
report.
That way, my wife can check to see if I'm free for lunch or sonogram
appointments to see the twins coming in. If there's anything last
minute, she calls to confirm.
Syncing to Google Calendar would be nice, but it's not an option right
now. Takes five minutes every Monday. Not too bad.
On May 30, 3:50 pm, "John Mayson" <j...@mayson.us> wrote:
> On 5/30/07, NanetteAndrusiak <nlu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > What I would like to do is find someway to share my calendar with the
> > rest of my family. Ideally, a way of syncing my outlook with an
> > internet calendar. But I want it to be private, so only family members
> > can see it, and relatively painless. Does anyone know of a tool I can
> > use? I tried using my google calendar, but it won't sync with
> > outlook.
> > Thanks a million!
>
> Which version of Outlook do you use and do you *HAVE* to use Outlook?
>
> I found some software to allow Outlook 2003 to sync with GCal, but I
> couldn't get it to work. I've heard Outlook 2007 allows this, but I
> haven't seen for myself.
>
> Almost every other calendar app out there I can think of allows you to
> subscribe to calendars. Mozilla Sunbird is available for many
> platforms and it can be used to subscribe to calendars.
>
> The only option I can think of, and it's not ideal, is to use Plaxohttp://www.plaxo.com. You could create an account on Plaxo for your
> family and everyone with Outlook could sync to it. It's no ideal
> because everyone in your family could change it. But maybe that's
> what you want?
>
> Let me know if this helps at all.
>
> --
> John Mayson <j...@mayson.us>
> Austin, Texas, USA
Dennis C. During
> From: 84Monte...@gmail.com
>
>
> I'm not sure what version of Outlook I use it work
Under 'Help', 'About Outlook' should lead you to the version: 'Outlook
2002', for example.
Dennis C. During
"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law
into contempt." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights advocate
(1815-1902)
"What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth." - Richard P.
Feynman, Nobelist, physicist, raconteur, bongo player, safe-cracker
NanetteAndrusiak
> Which version of Outlook do you use and do you *HAVE* to use Outlook?
only tool I've found that I can use to manage my contacts, mail, and
calendar in one place. And all my past mail is in here, which is nice.
If there is another tool that would work, I'd love to know about it!
> I found some software to allow Outlook 2003 to sync with GCal, but I
> couldn't get it to work.
I've had the same problems. Several solutions, but none seem to work
reliably.
> The only option I can think of, and it's not ideal, is to use Plaxohttp://www.plaxo.com. You could create an account on Plaxo for your
> family and everyone with Outlook could sync to it. It's no ideal
> because everyone in your family could change it. But maybe that's
> what you want?
No one else in my family is using Outlook, I just need them to see the
calendar online somewhere. I'll have to take a look at it and see if
it will work.
John Mayson
> > The only option I can think of, and it's not ideal, is to use Plaxohttp://www.plaxo.com. You could create an account on Plaxo for your
> > family and everyone with Outlook could sync to it. It's no ideal
> > because everyone in your family could change it. But maybe that's
> > what you want?
> No one else in my family is using Outlook, I just need them to see the
> calendar online somewhere. I'll have to take a look at it and see if
> it will work.
They could log into Plaxo and see the calendar online.
Stelian Iancu
everybody else in your family do the same? I notice that you already
have a gmail address. While it doesn't yet offer all the advantages of
a standalone client, I've found gmail + gcal quite as good as Outlook.
As opposed to a standalone client, gmail doesn't have an "offline"
mode, but that can change in the future because of the recently
released Google Gears (http://gears.google.com/). Also I found the
contacts part of gmail to be quite bad, but I hope that will change in
the future as well.
S.
On 5/31/07, NanetteAndrusiak <nlu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
Larry Huffman
What I would like to do is find someway to share my calendar with the
rest of my family. Ideally, a way of syncing my outlook with an
internet calendar. But I want it to be private, so only family members
can see it, and relatively painless. Does anyone know of a tool I can
use? I tried using my google calendar, but it won't sync with
outlook.
Jennifer Spedowfski-Martin
John Mayson
On May 31, 2007, at 8:36 PM, Jennifer Spedowfski-Martin wrote:
> Here's a stupid question....is there a digital calendar, that
> stands like those digital frames do, that can receive messages,
> that is changes to the calendar much like a cell phone would
> receive text messages? Probably not...but just wait...someone will
> invent one to replace paper wall calendars.
>
There are already digital picture frames that allow you either to
stream or load in memory various pictures. Why not a calendar?
Richard Watson
have cheaper, lower-powered widgets - almost a monochrome touch screen
panel that I could use in the kitchen for lists, etc. Calendar is
right there. Wirelessly sync to the real computers in the house.
Richard
On 6/1/07, John Mayson <jo...@mayson.us> wrote:
>
>
> On May 31, 2007, at 8:36 PM, Jennifer Spedowfski-Martin wrote:
>
> > Here's a stupid question....is there a digital calendar, that
> > stands like those digital frames do, that can receive messages,
> > that is changes to the calendar much like a cell phone would
> > receive text messages? Probably not...but just wait...someone will
> > invent one to replace paper wall calendars.
> >
>
> There are already digital picture frames that allow you either to
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db
wrote:
> I think it's a great idea. I've been wondering about how we could
> have cheaper, lower-powered widgets - almost a monochrome touch screen
> panel that I could use in the kitchen for lists, etc. Calendar is
> right there. Wirelessly sync to the real computers in the house.
Sounds like what Palm is doing with their new device, except that it's
only for PDAs, costs $500, and isn't touch screen.
If it were me, I'd get a used Mac Book/iBook and put it on a slide out
shelf in the kitchen, link wireless to the other computers and there
you go. You don't need a ton of power to do the basics.
Richard Watson
tablet that's thinner, uses very little power, no keyboard. Can check
your mail on it, but not write your Great Lithuanian Novel.
On 6/1/07, db <dancin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like what Palm is doing with their new device, except that it's
> only for PDAs, costs $500, and isn't touch screen.
>
> If it were me, I'd get a used Mac Book/iBook and put it on a slide out
> shelf in the kitchen, link wireless to the other computers and there
> you go. You don't need a ton of power to do the basics.
--
Curtis N. Bingham
I just signed up with Cozi. The demo looked cool. The toolbar didn't
install perfectly--I'm downloading .NET framework 3.0 and hope it will
install properly after that.
--update--
The toolbar sync is processing, but I'm not yet seeing the appointments show
up on Cozi. I have been using Outlook for a couple of years and somehow I
manage to have 822 Outlook items to sync. Ugh. Lots of recurring
appointments that I think separated out into individual daily appointments.
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The Airset also looks pretty neat but perhaps a bit overkill just for family
use.
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== 4 of 7 ==
Date: Thurs 31 May 2007 10:42
From: "Larry Huffman"
Larry
== 5 of 7 ==
Date: Thurs 31 May 2007 18:36
From: "Jennifer Spedowfski-Martin"
Here's a stupid question....is there a digital calendar, that stands like
those digital frames do, that can receive messages, that is changes to the
calendar much like a cell phone would receive text messages? Probably
not...but just wait...someone will invent one to replace paper wall
calendars.
Jennifer
== 6 of 7 ==
Date: Thurs 31 May 2007 21:51
From: John Mayson
On May 31, 2007, at 8:36 PM, Jennifer Spedowfski-Martin wrote:
> Here's a stupid question....is there a digital calendar, that
> stands like those digital frames do, that can receive messages,
> that is changes to the calendar much like a cell phone would
> receive text messages? Probably not...but just wait...someone will
> invent one to replace paper wall calendars.
>
There are already digital picture frames that allow you either to
stream or load in memory various pictures. Why not a calendar?
--
John Mayson <jo...@mayson.us>
Austin, Texas, USA
== 7 of 7 ==
Date: Fri 1 Jun 2007 08:37
From: "Richard Watson"
I think it's a great idea. I've been wondering about how we could
have cheaper, lower-powered widgets - almost a monochrome touch screen
panel that I could use in the kitchen for lists, etc. Calendar is
right there. Wirelessly sync to the real computers in the house.
Richard
On 6/1/07, John Mayson <jo...@mayson.us> wrote:
>
>
> On May 31, 2007, at 8:36 PM, Jennifer Spedowfski-Martin wrote:
>
> > Here's a stupid question....is there a digital calendar, that
> > stands like those digital frames do, that can receive messages,
> > that is changes to the calendar much like a cell phone would
> > receive text messages? Probably not...but just wait...someone will
> > invent one to replace paper wall calendars.
> >
>
> There are already digital picture frames that allow you either to
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Date: Thurs 31 May 2007 20:34
From: "Mike De Bruyn"
Hi Michael,
On 5/27/07, Michael Grant <mgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
>
> One thing that I feel is missing from any of them is a way to break
> the long-term lifetime or ten-year visions down through shorter-term
> goals and objectives and link them to day-to-day actions. I use a
> system of leapyear day, annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly
> reviews, but it can be unwieldy and I'm not really satisfied with it.
> Another element that could be useful is a habit development structure.
Just to echo what Dennis said on this point ...
I used the Lakein system when I found it many years ago. It is pretty easy
to break down long term goals, into shorter milestones and, ultimately,
actions. Maybe that would be one thing to discourage some ... it is just so
simple. No electronics required ;-)
So my point is, I guess, is that why should we be distressed that others
don't cover the goals breakdown. I mean, if Lakein did it, why should we
demand that everyone else do it as well?
So far as other systems are concerned, once you have your life goals broken
down to Projects and Actions, GTD and other systems can pick it up from
there.
FWIW, my system of breakdown has always been:
- Life Goals
- 20 Year Goals
- 10 Year Goals
- 5 Year Goals
- 2 Year Goals
- 1 Year Goals
- Six month Goals/Milestones
- Three month Goals/Milestones
- 1 month Goals/milestones/projects
- 1 week milestones/projects
Obviously, what you call a goal or milestone or project may be subject for a
fascinating debate, but it really does not matter much. In the end, there
are only actions and results.
--
> Cheers,
> Mike
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On 6/1/07, Richard Watson <richard....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, in my mind that's still too complex. More like a dumbed-down
> tablet that's thinner, uses very little power, no keyboard. Can check
> your mail on it, but not write your Great Lithuanian Novel.
We've got ourselves a Nokia N800 and are very happy with it for lazy
browsing and doing the other odd thing online. It runs a custom linux
build and an Opera browser. It runs decently on batteries.
It should be suitable for that kind of use.
db
wrote:
> Well, in my mind that's still too complex. More like a dumbed-down
> tablet that's thinner, uses very little power, no keyboard. Can check
> your mail on it, but not write your Great Lithuanian Novel.
It appears Palm has designed what would be a dumb terminal to a smart
phone or other PDA. And You could very possibly write your Great
Lithuanian Novel, though it might be a year or two before you can
format the whole thing. But think about it, those PDA's have more
power than many of the original Mac (or PCs).