So, I have a confession to make; and what better place, thought I, than to admit it here within this caring community?
For -- well, forever, I suppose -- I've manually synchronized my Outlook calendar, my Google Calendar, and my iPhone. Over the years, I've developed the discipline and spidey-sense to keep them in sync, for the most part rarely missing any events...but it has come at a certain cost in terms of admin time and stress. Last week, I finally did a little research and installed a wonderful little program called Google Sync from https://www.companionlink.com/google/ and am delighted to confirm that at long last, my three calendars stay in sync, and colorized (Personal, Calls, Offsite, and Events, as a Good Start). I've also switched from the native iPhone Calendar (which is pretty good) to the Google Calendar app (which is even better). Conservatively, the sync is >95% accurate, typically within minutes, and I expect it will save me easily an hour a week.
It's now a whole new ball game for me, and with a bit of that new found spare time, I've been mulling over other improvements I would like to make in this aspect of my time management. Especially last Friday, as I caught myself with three windows open: 1) my Google Calendar, 2) our next Workfront Merge client's (very complicated) Workfront Workplan which started this week, and 3) our oh-dang-two-in-the-same-month Workfront Merge client's (just as complicated) Workfront Workplan, which starts next week. As I mentally cross checked all three to ensure that I could interlace the tasks from the two Merge timelines among my other standing commitments, I thought:
It would be SO much easier if I could push a Workfront Workplan into a Google Calendar, then "share" that calendar (in fact, two calendars, in this case) so that I could leverage Google Calendar's native ability to more easily visualize conflicts and spot openings in a calendar view.
So! As I'm years late to the whole synchronized calendar concept, I thought I'd pause and ask:
Has anyone noodled out a way to do this yet, or (if not) be interested in leveraging this approach, if I decide to noodle it out?
Regards,
Doug