The Calendar and the Cloud

Update: There seems to be an issue with recurring events that are NOT set up by you. This is a huge inconvenience. Hopefully the Google Calendar team fixes this soon as this renders this sync tool un-usable as most of my recurring events are set up by others (Project Managers).

Google dropped the Outlook Calendar Sync yesterday. You can see the alert in your Google Calendar.

The great news is that it offers a two way sync between Outlook and Google Calendar. As a consultant, this is great. I can now have a synced calendar between my different clients an my personal life. I can sync my clients outlook ([email protected]) with my personal calendar and then sync my work Outlook with my personal. Therefore I have a master calendar that is updated at all times. Regardless if I’m at the client, logged into their domain, or logged in at the office, or at home, I get the reminders and notifications I need. No more checking 3-5 calendars to make sure I do/don’t have a meeting that day. 🙂

As you may or my not know, you can have Google Send you text messages for calendar events every morning as an Agenda. So when  you wake up, it will be waiting for you in your cell as a text message.

What it looks like installed:

I downloaded it and it places an icon in your tray that looks like this:

When the calendars are sync’ng up, this icon is displayed: