Google Calendar

Photograph: Valley of the Kings Hatshepsut's temple lookingup statue, Luxor, 2005-10-03, © Nick Varacalli.It looks like Google Calendar is going to be a killer tool once Google irons out the bugs.

The first bug, I got the following error message when trying to import events that were exported from Outlook.

Failed to import events
Failed to upload ical/csv file

Solution: Temporarily change date format from yyyy-mm-dd to MM/dd/yyyy.

Features I love so far:

  • Ability to share calendars at various levels.
  • Ability to combine multiple calendars into a single view. Maybe I just haven’t used the right calendar applicaitons before, but the ability to see my calendar, Dina’s calendar, US Holidays, Canadian Holidays, a Boston running group’s calendar, and the Red Sox schedule (for traffic avoidance) all at once rocks.

2 Responses to “Google Calendar”

  1. Jeff says:

    …you haven’t used the right calendar before. I’ve been using Sunbird for about a year and a half, and I can simultaneously view: my calendar, Kathleen’s calendar, Kathleen’s work calendar, our “birthdays and annual events” calendar; and three of my bandmates’ calendars so we can coordinate rehearsals.

  2. Nick says:

    Jeff: What’s the rationale behind the annual events calendar?

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