[Discuss] Calendar application advice

[John Blomfield]

I use Google calendar on all my devices ie computer, phone and tablet. 
It has a sharing option so other people can view it and or various 
levels of modifying. You can export your calendar to save it. I guess 
the data may be stored on the Google cloud somewhere but if you want to 
sync your data with all your devices what choice do you have unless you 
have your own cloud server?

John


On 03/27/2015 08:08 AM, Murray Strome wrote:
> I would like some suggestions for a calendar application that I could 
> access from all of our computers and mobile devices, make 
> modifications from any of them, and can be viewed and modified when 
> there is no internet connection.
> We have LINUX, MS Windows, Android (tablet & phone), Mac OS (iMac and 
> iPad mini).
> I think that what I want is something which would use a common file 
> which could be in something like Dropbox so it would be available when 
> not connected, but then automatically synchronized with all the 
> devices whenever they were connected.
> I think that Dropbox is the best place to store the file (perhaps an 
> iCal file would be a good candidate for the format), but what 
> application could make use of it from all the devices/operating systems?
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks.
> Murray
> PS I have looked at Google Calendar and Yahoo! Calendar. They are OK 
> as web based applications but as far as I can tell, they don't keep 
> copies locally. Also, they require login, and it gets complicated when 
> you want a single calendar for multiple users with different 
> passwords. I cannot remember if the LINUX jPilot uses exactly the same 
> format for its storage as the Palm Desktop on Windows and MacOS, of if 
> there is a version for Android tablets/phones and Mac products. That 
> would be a possible candidate but the files structure is pretty 
> complicated and tends to be quite bloated.
> From the presentation at the last BB&C General Meeting, it would 
> appear that Outlook might be a candidate, except that I have not 
> figured out how to make it work in LINUX. Furthermore, I would much 
> prefer an Open Source application.
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