Ugh, and now that I pasted that I notice they've put the journal volume number and the title in the same field, and they should be different fields, so that is another problem.

ita,

I do not use ical if I can absolutely fucking help it. I use google calendar and Quickcal.

Note: google calendar uglified their page really something awful, so I find I mostly look at my calendar on my iphone/ipad these days. Using Agenda.

I can't rely on being logged into a given google account on a given browser--the Google account I use for scheduling isn't one of the three or four I use for email, and each browser (Opera, Chrome, etc) is logged into one of those, or deliberately not logged into Google at all.

If there's a standalone app that synchronises with a Google calendar, equivalent to iCal, that runs on OS X, I'd gladly look at it. I'm also not necessarily going to want to use one of my mobile devices. I mean, sometimes I want the advantage of a full form factor, you know?

right.

I think a lot of people like busycal.

I also use Quickcal just to enter appointments. It is the bomb diggity. I can do it with quick keystrokes.

If there's a standalone app that synchronises with a Google calendar, equivalent to iCal, that runs on OS X

Sunbird? I like it on Windows at least. Kind of ugly, but in a more utilitarian way than iCal. If you use Thunderbird, you can use the Lightning extension with it (same thing as Sunbird, just as an extension of Thunderbird).

Speaking of calendars...

Is there a way to get other people's google calendars, that have been shared with me, to appear on the iPhone calendar apps? Right now, the only way I can see them is by using Google's own web-based iOS "app" (i.e. the mobile version of the web page).

Never mind. I googled the answer. If you go to google.com/calendar/iphoneselect you can pick which calendars to synch. I just added all the shared ones and am waiting for my phone to update to see if it worked.

I think there is Jon B, but there are about 3 ways to sync your iPhone calendar with Google, and some of them let you do it and some don't. I used the "Google Sync" method, I believe, which let you navigate to a web page from your iPhone and enable/disable different calendars. The default "gmail" account method, when last I tried it, had trouble with multiple calendars of any form, and shared calendars specifically. It may have improved?

I would strongly suggest investing in a calendar app that isn't the iPhone default. I really enjoyed CalenGoo for the 5 days I had it before I bought an Android (not the most worthwhile purchase perhaps...) but didn't play with it enough to really recommend it, per se. But Business Calendar on the Android has changed my life by being basically nothing like the default calendar app(s), just way better.

If CalenGoo is as good as I tended to think it was after a couple of days, I have to think that $6.99 is a cheap price to pay.

Gris,

yes for iphone users, I really like Agenda. Really nice interface.

I'm looking at Business Calendar on Google Play (Who came up with that name? It's really meaningless and bland. I can't remember it without going back to look. I just scroll through the apps until the middle, looking for the shopping bag.) and people seem excited by it.

I'm not mad at the default calendar, although I have to use Touchdown for work Exchange, and the widgets that display that are limited--there's only so much use I can get out of any other app's widgets, other than Executive Assistant, which integrates with Touchdown and Calendar. It's...so so.

Some of the copy on the Business Calendar page is irritating. You can't have a fully functional free version with extra features on the paid one. Fish or shit in the pot.

But Gris--I can't tell--do you prefer CalenGoo to Business Calendar?