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Calgoo - calendar beta starts today
Calgoo officially launched their beta calendar sharing program today. Download Squad reviewed their second draft last October and while positive on the whole, we thought there were some key missing features like synchronization with Google calendar, Microsoft Outlook and iCal. Well, it looks like the folks at Calgoo have fixed that, enhanced speed, and added these features as well:
- Updated the user interface by reducing clutter and adding functionality
- Single click "Map it" to generate a Google map of your event or appointment location
- Add reminders to your appointment
- To do lists (does not currently synchronize tasks with Google Calendar and recurring tasks are not supported, although this will be added in the near future).
After spending the better part of an hour on 
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Grammar freak said 1:00PM on 3-05-2007
After getting myself on thin ice for missing a company meeting this morning, I decided to figure out how to sync up my outlook with a google calendar to look at at home. I followed the advice here:
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/08/11/the-holy-grail-of-synchronization-how-to-synchronize-microsoft-outlook-multiple-locations-google-calendar-gmail-ipod-and-mobile-phone-with-funambol-scheduleworld/
I just downloaded Calgoo, but I don't know if it's really needed in the context of someone with an outlook calendar.
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yhancik said 5:18PM on 3-05-2007
is it me or it's the first desktop calendar application that directly synchronises in both ways with gcal without any tricks ?
it's great, but rather ressource-heavy (around 25Mb when minimized, from 45 to... over 100Mb when in use :/)
i hope it will be fixed, because aside from that it's really great !
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jls said 8:10PM on 3-05-2007
I just checked it out and am not at all impressed with the task list, which apparently is a feature just added. If I am going to use Calgoo I want to be able to set up my tasks in the manner of GTD, but there is no way to set either context (e.g., home, office, car, and the like) or task status (e.g. next action, some day, waiting on). Calgoo allows me to assign tags to the tasks, which could function as a way to assign context and status, but there is no way that I see to sort the tasks by tags within the task list itself. If I want to see tasks sorted by tag, I have to apply a search for each tag in the calendar view, and then I only get results for one tag at a time, not sorted by tag within one viewing. And even then I don't really know what tag I'm looking at, except for the fact that I typed in the name of the tag when doing the search. And finally, the search doesn't take you to any of the tasks, you have to scroll the calendar until you arrive at the first due date, and thereafter do the same for each subsequent task.
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