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Having tried mozilla calendar, evolution, and a couple of others, I found them all less efficient to work with than my phone calendar — the only desktop calendar app I’ve seen which looks nice to work with being iCal, and that’s OSX only D:

But lo; google have made something which looks (and I assume works) similarly to iCal, and it’s OS independant \o/ That alone would only be enough to fill it with Awesome though. There is one last feature which I consider the most important thing ever — it needs to be able to alert me to my appointments wherever I am, since I spend a lot of time not at my desktop. Google have this sorted though; entering a mobile phone number lets the calendar message me, and it seems free /o/

Although, it depends on me having a good enough signal to get SMS traffic D: I shall try anyway, since google calendar is so much more functional than the phone one that it may be worth it…

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1. r9Paul Says:
   October 4th, 2006 at 12:49 pm

   oooo Shiney! I’ve always used Outlook because of the integration with the e-mail client (mail comes in, flag it as a to-do with a due date and *ta da* its in the calendar, set a contact’s DOB in the address book and *ta da* their birthday is in the calendar).

   The other major upside of Outlook for me is its integration with my phone and pda; the ability to sync (therefore backup and maintain redundant copies on pc, phone, pda and laptop) my contacts and calendar is brilliant. I can look up any address of any of my contacts from anywhere, likewise calendar, and feel assured whereever I am I’m in some degree of control by having an offline copy.

   All of this said, I would love to get away from Outlook, its data-file management is not ideal, I’d like whatever I use to be “portable” (either web-based or running from a flash disk/external drive). With Outlook mails I get at home stay at home, mails I get at work stay there, this isn’t great. Portable Thunderbird would (in my mind) be a better option, or a webbased client (but it needs to be capable of checking not just one mailbox, but about 30…)

   I suppose live, or near live sync between Google and Outlook would be the best possible solution (then pda can talk to outlook at work, outlook at work can talk to web, outlook at home can talk to web, phone can talk to outlook at home…)