To-dos in calendar

Is it possible to synch to dos with the desktop calendar? Or to create to dos in the iPod touch calendar app?

Please elaborate! I've just come to the IPT from the Palm/SONY Clie world and the lack of to-dos is frustrating. I realize there are add-ons, but the ones I've seen are either too limited, don't synch, or only synch to the cloud.
I've been wondering about using the calendar in some fashion as a to-do system. I do wish that there were a way of snoozing alerts-- as the Palm does.

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To Dos In Calendar View

Is there a way to make to dos show up in the calendar view instead of just a list to the right of the calendar? Or should I just make everything an event? I'm mean, what's the difference, how is one supposed to know when to make a item an event or to do? Thanks

I want to see the same thing. When I publish a calendar it asks if I want to publish ToDo's.
I check that option. Then, when I look at my calendar online, I can't find my ToDo's anywhere. I've looked everywhere that is possible on the page and they simply are not there.
Am I missing something?

Syncing To Dos on iCal with my iPod

I checked on my iPod and I found To Dos under calendar--unfortunately it looks like it synced every To Do I've ever had on iCal, even though most of them are completed. Is there any way to remove To Dos after they have been checked as complete?

Thanks, but I'm not looking to delete them all together as sometimes I need to look at a completed to do. Is there anyway I can just shut of fthe syincing of completed to dos?

Newbie converting from a Palm to iPod touch - calendar, contacts, etc.

I'm a brand new iPod Touch (and Apple) user, and have the iPT 4G. I've a Palm Tx I'd like to convert data from, AND continue using the Palm Desktop unless there is something similar that will let me sync and see (on a PC) my To Dos, Memos, Calendar, and Contacts. I have searched and seen lots of postings on the Apple Discussions and the web in general about this...but they are all old and not specific to the 4G, and I'm not sure what might have changed.
Suggestions? I think I will need Outlook (no problem), but not sure what else? And can't figure out what Mobile Me is, and if I need that too?
And what app will replace my Memos???? I've hundreds of them, and they are one of the most important and used data sets for me.
Thanks for your suggestions!

I am considering purchasing the new touch, but am slightly different in that I've been using the original iphone for years. After much deliberation and evaluating how much use I really have on the device, in addition to shopping around for OTHER phones/devices, I realized that the games, music, camera, maps, contacts, calendar and apps are really the ones I use most. Now, I am a big texter, emailer, and live online, but realized that I hardly ever "MUST have" the 3G capability. And, when I do, I become so frustrated with the internet speed that I end up turning it off and waiting until I can hit a wi-fi. So being completely honest, it's more about the entertainment--and it's not so bad being "unavailable" a little more in my life today.
So similar question, but perhaps some more details please.....
I can tell you from the experience on my phone, you really need to have Outlook OR Windows mail in order for it to work well. You can sync with a variety of other programs, but other that Outlook or Windows you are going to have to employ some third party stuff or learn to go through multiple steps to sync. And, from my experience, it's still kind of "buggy" with itunes as is. Perhaps I'm just picky, but I can't seem to like all of the functions offered in one place...(i.e. calendar, contacts, mail) as I really like Thunderbird for mail and contacts, but really like Outlook's new 2010 calendar and multiple sharing options. I can't seem to get satisfied all in one place?
Apple would have you purchase +Mobile Me+. Tried it too--it works great, but it costs $99 minimum per year. Not bad if you will be using it a lot and at multiple locations (cuz that's the real purpose--to sync with work, phone, home, etc.), but I was not, so I dropped it.
I'm an old Old school outlook user, but trying to get unhooked from the office programs so I checked out Windows Mail (which comes with my windows 7 stuff), and with Windows 7 and Itunes 10 it works great! Outlook 2010 and the other office programs this year (I thought) were a bit too "overkill" for what I need anymore (now that I'm "right-sized") so after looking at basic options, I would say Windows Live (mail) or Outlook to be the best. Also, Windows Mail just launched their beta platform for hotmail and provides you with the basic same features that Apple does, but instead of $99 for Mobile Me, Live is free...it syncs with your away computers and home stuff and all of the 2010 office programs if you still find you want that.
Hope that help you albiea...perhaps someone else can provide a review of the down side to touch when moving from the 3G. Advice?
Thanks!

Invisible to dos

Hi! I'm using the Missing Sync to sync my Treo with iCal. I noticed that my to dos sometimes disappear or become invisible, partially or all of them.
I have to turn the "Hide to dos outside calendar view" on off several times to make them re-appear.
This seems like an iCal bug to me? I would appreciate any advice. Thank you.

I too am having the same problem. I have Missing Sync and a Treo 680. Calendars seem to sync OK and if you search for the todos they will show up in search results so the data is in iCal, which would seem to confirm that it is indeed a iCal display issue.
See this Mark/Space topic:
http://forums.markspace.com/viewtopic.php?t=2930&highlight=tasks
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ICal falls short for enterprise use in an Exchange server environment

(Cross posting from the "Using Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard" discussion).
I work at a very large software company on a team of people who all use Macs. We were thrilled to install Snow Leopard and begin using the new Exchange server features in Mail, Address Book and iCal. Sadly, though, some very rough edges on the iCal experience are making many people go back to running Entourage, or even Outlook in Parallels (ugh).
Specifically, iCal does not allow you to control how and when notifications are sent when you edit an existing event. As a meeting organizer, if you make a change, such as adding a new attendee to a meeting that includes 40 other attendees already, all 40 of those existing attendees get a notification, forcing them to re-evaluate the meeting in their inboxes.
There is no way to save a draft of a meeting invitation without sending it to the attendees. Often the chore of assembling the correct mix of attendees for a meeting takes significant time. If you are unable to complete the agenda or other planning aspects of the event in a single sitting, you must send the meeting as is, which is not a real option if your respect your colleagues time, because they will be receiving multiple updates to your meeting as you complete it.
Declining a meeting automatically notifies the meeting organizer without giving the invitee a choice. This also creates a lot of unnecessary "noise" in peoples inboxes. Sometimes it is desirable, but not always- the ability to control notification is a very sensitive issue in the context of meeting etiquette.
You cannot Reply, Reply All, or Forward a meeting calendar event from within iCal.
There is no support for rich text in the meeting calendar event's "Notes" field - the field in iCal that is used to represent the meeting invitation email's body text. This strips out meaning and complicates the workflow for attending a meeting.
Getting people to participate in collaborative work in large distributed organizations is a challenge as it is. We cannot afford to use tools that work against the goal. Apple, please hurry up and provide the rest of the features required to really USE an Exchange calendar client in an enterprise environment.

"He also wants to get his calendar appointments and address book (contacts), but he doesn't want to use Entourage"
You need to use GroupCal by Snerdware but we have found it not to be a really good product in our office. The address book has the ability to sync to exchange server many have indicated it doesn't work (Address Book/Preferences/General Tab/Sync with Exchange)
You could try Thunderbird mail product not used that but I doubt any of the Tasks, To-Dos and Calendar come over...now Entourage used to be horrible with this sync but now with 11.3.6 (or whatever it is now) our users see calendar events, to-dos and the LDAP directory
Though I am a Mac fan, still in a windows world you cannot be too choosy they should just use entourage for an outlook like product.
NOTE do NOT go to Exchange 2007 tons of IMAP problems our Mac users are unable to get mail (and yet our Windows Admin could care less)
good luck

Phone recomendation?

I had been using a demo Samsung SGH-D600 phone that I just had to return (it was given to us to review for a technology podcast). I really liked the features, except that it didn't sync with my Powerbook, and from what people are saying here I shouldn't hold my breath. I do think it's time to upgrade my 8 year old Ericsson T28, and I also have an Ericsson T610 that synced, but the signal strength is terrible.
So, my long winded question is this: Is there any phone that someone can recommend that they think works particularly well with iSync, especially the calendar? My main requirements are bluetooth syncing of iCal and my Address Book. Anything with features like the Samsung D600 I had been using would be especially good, and I would get that phone in a heartbeat if it actually synced.
I know this might be sorta off topic, but any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks!
-Lewis

This is a very difficult question to answer because phones are such a subjective thing. Here's my experience which may or may not help.
I see a phone as a phone, rather than as a PDA. I have a computer for computing work, a 'phone to make 'phone calls. However, what I have always found convenient is the ability to view, edit and add address book, to-dos and calendar entries via the 'phone and seemlessly synch these to the computer.
I used to do this fine with a SE P900. When this died I thought I'd go for a smaller form factor and picked the Motorola Razr. What a mistake - I didn't realise that its "address book" actually wasn't - it only holds names and basic details, not the full address details.
I won't bore you with all the phones I considered. It seems to me that if you want the features I did, you are in smartphone territory. I ended up with a Nokia N70 which does the job perfectly - I'm very happy - it also synchs superbly with iCal and Address Book (it isn't officially supported by Apple but there's a very simple way to make it work that I came across on the web and would be happy to share if anyone is interested).
So, I would say make sure you know what you want from the 'phone, check it out, check to see if it can synch and then take your pick from the list that remains.
David

No To Dos on published calendar in browser

Hi everybody,
I want to my publish my to do list with so my supervisor can see what I have planned for the week. She doesn't have a Mac so a wanted to send her the weblink for the published calendar. Problem is: the to dos do not show up when looking at the calendar with a browser (I tried Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4 on Mac, as well as IE on PC). I made sure that I've clicked the little check box to "show to do list" in my calendar pre-publish window.
So do to dos never show up in the browser version, or am I just overlooking the link? Or is something wrong with my iCal?
Thanks for your help,
Stephan

I believe the iphone has a notes feature. Don't forget the touch is an ipod, not a PDA. Hopefully after the SDK is released in Feb we will see more apps like a ToDos, email, ect.
You can always let Apple know what you'd like to see.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodtouch.html
lenn

Sync Calendar To Dos

How can I sync, then view, my calendar to dos from my laptop to my ipod touch.

Hey Bottlerboi,
I saw you replied to this same subject somewhere else in the discussions... do you know if Apple understands the need for this? Have you heard anything from them regarding an update? Just a little whinge early in the morning.

HELP!!! All my events, to dos, calendars are gone!

don't know what happened. Just opened up ical and the default ical opened up home and work calendars only....no events, no to do's, NOTHING. My life has vanished in front of me!
Any advise...I'm desparate
SB

I have also just experienced this problem two days ago. My wife and I publish perhaps 40 calandars between us with several thousand work and social events entered and they just all disappeared suddenly leaving me with "have a nice default work/home".
The two things that I think may have caused it are the time I hit the power off button to try to resolve vmWare's Windows XP emulator hanging (iCal was open at the time) (http://www.apple.com/business/mac_pc/applications.html), and my use of "iPhoto Buddy" (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/iphotobuddy.html) which seems to swap whole iLife profiles in and out.
I've seen solutions to this problem that involve trashing various iCal /Library/ entries. These solutions presume I'm backed up to iMac and everything auto-reloads out of "synch services". I am backed up to box.net for free instead (http://systemsboy.blogspot.com/2006/06/publish-ical-calendars-on-internet-for.ht ml), so I didn't really loose anything. It's just a giant 2-hour pain to by-hand download it and hook it all back up again.
All of my iCal content seems to still be stored in the library, but the links to it have all been thrashed. I could fix it in five minutes if the plists were stored in plain English xml, but iCal has hashed them all with some seemingly random codes. Thanks heaps, Mr. Apple developer. What's the point of using XML if you're going to hash it back out of unicode/ascii like that?
What we need here is a simple terminal command to rebuild the link tables. Does anybody know if such a thing exists? I've got /Developer installed and I am not afraid to use it.

Recurring To Dos and multiplying events from subscribed calendars

The density and volume of discussion about iCal's recurring ToDos and Events is too overwhelming to survey in its entirety so I will try this new post focussed on my problems.
My iCal has been starting up (beach ball icon turning) for more than a day, a process that began when I opened the ToDos column (push pin icon at bottom of window). Rightly or wrongly I entered a large number of birthdays and other anniversary dates as ToDos instead of Untimed Events. The bulk of my ToDos are such annually recurring events although there are plenty of others with shorter intervals (like those involving taking the trash out or renewing library books).
I suspect that it is these recurring ToDos running many years into the future that is preventing iCal from completing its start up and clogging up the application's data capacity. I can force quit the application, but the whole process only "recurs" when I launch the application again. I would happily sacrifice my entire ToDo file (Calendar) and re-enter the information under recurring untimed events, but I cannot figure out how. Moreover, Michael Lafferty wisely cautioned in regard to an iSync post about removing any files in OS 10 from the location where Apple placed them.
So how can I escape this bewildering and frustrating situation and get back to my more serious problem with using iSync to synch my Zire 71 with iCal on my G4?
Thanks
G4 400Mhz Mac OS X (10.3.9) another G4 400 Mhz w/ OS 19.3.9, PPC8100AV Mac OS 9.2, Palm Zire 71, Handheld Visor
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In another post, information was provided for removing duplicates, one an Applescript its creator supplied for finding and deleting iCal duplicates (called Delete iCal Duplicates) and another a shareware application UnDupe available from the Palm Store or Stevens Creek Software that will find and remove duplicates on a Palm device such as my Zire 71. I used both, finding few duplicates in iCal with the Delete iCal Duplicates Applescript, but a staggering number of duplicate ToDos on my Zire with UnDupe which I removed.
However, I still am unable to complete a sync with HotSync Manager and iSync because the Conduit Manger fails in mid-sync repeatedly. I am getting in the HotSync log the following message, but iSync continues the syncing process as though nothing has happened. Here is the message:
Sync type is Fast
iSync Conduit starting 7.28.06 11:31:23 PM
Setting Hello Response, type is PalmSyncTypeFast, language is 0
(BladeLanguageEnglish) 7.28.06 11:33:51 PM
Timeout waiting for Sync Engine, exiting 7.28.06 11:40:39 PM
iSync Conduit: received NULL message, disconnecting... 7.28.06 11:40:39
PM
iSync Conduit synchronization failed
“iSync Conduit” failed (error = #-1)
Do I need to re-install Palm Desktop v4.2.1 to replace a defective Conduit Manager component or what other solution to this repeated failue in mid-sync. Also note as I said that iSync does not stop and report the sync failure but just continues running and cannot be "Cancelled" either. Only a force quite and a complete re-start will stop iSync from continuing the synching process long after HotSync Manager has reported and logged the iSync conduit sync failure. Correction: some 40 minutes after HotSync Manager declared an interruption and failure, iSync has finally stopped with a sync failure alert
Thanks for help although at this point after 2-3 days no one has responded to my orginal question. Should I have cross-posted to the iSync Forum?
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What is my best option for synchronizing tasks (to-dos)/calendars on my iPhone with an Apple Mac?

I currently have an iPhone 3GS (will upgrade to 5 when available) and Windows XP PC (soon to be retired!) and happily sync my to-do's/calendar between Appigo To-do/iphone Calendar on my iPhone and MS Outlook 2007 on my PC.
Looking ahead I want to buy a Mac of some kind but before I do so, I'd like to try and find answers to the following questions.
1.) What are my options for synchronizing tasks / calendar on my iPhone with an Apple Mac?
2.) Which is recommended as the best?
3.) Which options should I avoid?
Thanks in advance!
Mark

You have 2 options:
1) Ensure in all cases "store email on the server" is set. I suspect on one device it's not set.
2) (preferred IMO) On all devices, set option to bcc: yourself to true. This way you always get all the emails and can file them via IMAP, and they'll be everywhere (with mail headers which preserves sent date. "sent messages" often DOES NOT preserve the sent date)

ICal events To Dos calendars disappeared.

I dont know how to use time machine to get back to where i am. Time machine only shows finder to go back and the files finder shows are only those that can be used for importing one event at a time. I need all events back but cant find a way. Please help me. Any help is appreciated

I just examined the current "Calendars" folder in my /users/xxx/library folder. it has multiple xyz(i).calendar folders in it, each with a info.plist file. Each of the plist file corresponds to one Calendar, either you've created or you've subscribed to. Also in the xyz(i).calendar folder, there are Events folders. These seem to contain the events that we create. Now, i still dont understand why the iCal doesn't know what to do with all the Calendars sitting in the "Calendars" folder. Are they corrupted? Can i retrieve them?

Calendar to dos

What do I do for "to do's" now that Mavericks has eliminated iCal and my BusyCal won't work with it?

What do you mean "eliminated iCal"?
If you are referring to Apple's iCal, It's still there, it's been named "Calendar" since Mountain Lion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_%28application%29

ICal Print List - Why are to-dos randomly sorted?

When printing from iCal in the list view, my To-Do List is NEVER sorted the way I sorted it in the main iCal window (whether by Calendar, Priority, or Manually). Instead it's just sorted randomly, which is very unorganized.
Does anyone know why this is, or what can be done to fix it?

It sounds like from your description that you're entering a date as a string in the todo description. Ideally you should be entering the date as the due date. This will help the sort order both in iCal and when printing. When you decide to print the To Do List, make sure View is set to List. Only check To Dos. In the time range, select the range you want to see. Anything without a due date will be printed under the heading To Dos without Due Date.

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