Hi @Folke.

Totally agree with you.

Sync with Gcal will only be really effective once yoy can choose wich tasks can appear 8n Gcal.

In my opinion C option would be the best.

Agree with option C.

Great write-up @Folke :)

@michelle1987

Not syncing automatically is definitely an option, just as you say. And then I can manually "sync" (copy or edit in two places in parallel):

- today's appointments
I want these in both places, because I do not want to have to switch between task list and calendar all day long, so I will manually copy them to my task list (or have them sent automatically as a calendar reminder email)

- upcoming appointments, especially those that belong to a defined project
I want these in both places, because I want to be able to see them when I review the project (for example, to consider whether I need to prepare anything for the meeting)

It would be very handy indeed (very slick and cool, and would save a bit of time) to have this sync built in.

What I definitely do not need or want - because I use GTD, a situation based methodology, not a time planning methodology - is any estimated or planned dates for my own actions. You simply do not plan time in GTD.

And on my calendar I normally do not even need or want to see my GTD Tickler dates, i.e. the scheduled date from which I will begin to review a task again after having been impossible to consider. For the most part, these just make it difficult to see the real appointments. On rare occasions, though, if it something unusually important that might mean I can expect to be unusually busy for a time thereafter, I might want to choose to "Show this" on my calendar in order to avoid making too many appointments that week.

The same goes for deadlines (imposed by others or explicitly agreed with others; I use GTD and never ever set any arbitrary deadlines just for planning purposes). I normally do not want to see deadlines either on my calendar. They just make it difficult to see the appointments, but occasionally, if it something very big and important it can be handy to "Show this", just to avoid making too many other appointments in the weeks before.

In other words, I agree with the two others above, @joaquinmari and @delta6, that option C would be the best. Whenever we create a "dated" action in Doit there could simply be an unchecked checkbox titled "Calendar action". Only in those cases would it create an action on the Doit calendar in GCal.

Conversely, for the reverse sync, this is a very powerful and useful feature, because it allows us to conveniently use calendar data from whatever normal calendars we use, and some of those calendars can even be shared. But, as I have mentioned in another thread, these calendars need to be treated with particular "respect", because they do not primarily exist as a "task management database"; they are real appointments etc that we - and others - use as a normal appointment schedule and track record. It must be prevented that any of these actions are automatically deleted or automatically checkmarked or automatically changed in any other way by us via Doit. For example, if I participate on a shared project calendar with some people and they have booked a meeting, and I get a copy of that meeting synced into Doit, and decide not to go, so I trash the meeting in my Doit, then it is not permissible to automatically delete that meeting from the project calendar just because I trashed it on Doit. And I want that same principle to apply to my normal private Google calendars, too. I keep a record of what appointments I had when. I don't want them deleted just because I did go them.

Another very good option would be able to select which task we want to show on Doit.im calendar (and which tasks we want to hide in Doit.im calendar). In this case maybe I would only use Doit.im calendar.

What do you think?

@joaquinmari - yes, I totally agree, I think ... but is that not exactly the same as the "option C" above? Or do you mean with a different touch? If so, how?

(But I believe we are probably talking about the same thing, just that you expressed so much more concisely :-)

@Folke

We will seriously consider it.

Thanks for your feedback and support.

Yes @Folke. Totally agrre with you.

It's the same than C. The only thing I wanted to ad is that with a some improvements in Doit.im calendar (and mobile calendar widget), maybe I would stop using Gcal.

I would have to keep on syncing, but only for getting the appointments that other send me to gmail.