iCloud, Reminders, and iCal

[llbean]

Does anybody know why some Reminders in iOS5 have a due date field, others have a remind me date field and others have both fields? In fact, I'm looking at the exact same Reminder synced between an iPod and a MBP and one has a due date and the other has a remind me date.

 

[felipeav]

Reminders is just Calendar + geofencing.

Exactly and since iPhone 3GS doesn't have geofencing for reminders ...

My confusion came from Apple saying this is a "A better way to do TO-DOs" - right now even Notes app is a better to-do app.

I was really looking forward moving from Action Lists app + Toodledo combo to just Reminders + iCloud but that ain`t gonna work at this moment.

I do like the "Calendar geofencing idea" but it`s just not a to-do app at all.

 

[spudwaffle]

I just needed to add my iCloud account in iCal's preferences.

 

[Pitch]

Anyway to sync Mail To Dos with Reminders in iOS?

Hey,
Does anyone know if there's a way to sync Mail/iCal To Dos with iOS Reminders? I'm on Snow Leopard, so there's no iCloud implementation, but if Notes, Calendars, Mail, Contacts, etc sync over USB, I don't get why To Dos/Reminders shouldn't.
Thanks,
Pitch

BTW, when I do upgrade to Lion, can I get a confirmation that Mail To Dos are synced with Reminders on iOS? Or is this not the case?

 

[Nikh]

Hi. I played with this some time ago.
Yes, you can sync iCal To-do's with iOS 5 Reminders application, by adding iCloud's CalDAV account.
I wrote a small article with screenshots, hope it will be useful:
http://antlogic.com.ua/sync-ical-snow-leopard-with-icloud

 

[Pitch]

Hi. I played with this some time ago.
Yes, you can sync iCal To-do's with iOS 5 Reminders application, by adding iCloud's CalDAV account.
I wrote a small article with screenshots, hope it will be useful:
http://antlogic.com.ua/sync-ical-snow-leopard-with-icloud

Nikh, thanks for the help, not sure how you figured it, but I commend you for it. Now if only I could figure out how to sync Tasks on Google Calendar/Gmail with Reminders/To Dos, I'd be sitting pretty.

Two quick questions: Is there a way to either remove the Gmail and On My Mac To Dos that Mail creates automatically make the iOS To Do the default, so when I add a reminder in Mail it makes by default in that List? Is there a way to have iCal/Calendar/etc show the tasks in the calendar and not just as a list?

Thanks again!

 

[Nikh]

Now if only I could figure out how to sync Tasks on Google Calendar/Gmail with Reminders/To Dos, I'd be sitting pretty.

Two quick questions: Is there a way to either remove the Gmail and On My Mac To Dos that Mail creates automatically make the iOS To Do the default, so when I add a reminder in Mail it makes by default in that List? Is there a way to have iCal/Calendar/etc show the tasks in the calendar and not just as a list?

Thanks again!

1. There is no direct way, you should use some commercial applications (like this: http://www.innov8tion.com/apps/igtask-for-ical/ for instance).
There is request to Google team to open CalDAV server for Tasks since 2009, but they seems to ignore it. They just this spring published API to access tasks.

2. I see only one way - to remove corresponding calendars from iCal. It doesn't seem to be configurable.

3. It is not (as far as I know) configurable as well.

 

[Pitch]

1. There is no direct way, you should use some commercial applications (like this: http://www.innov8tion.com/apps/igtask-for-ical/ for instance).
There is request to Google team to open CalDAV server for Tasks since 2009, but they seems to ignore it. They just this spring published API to access tasks.

2. I see only one way - to remove corresponding calendars from iCal. It doesn't seem to be configurable.

3. It is not (as far as I know) configurable as well.

Thanks. It's too bad Google has yet to implement CalDAV for Tasks. Thanks for the link - it's cool there's a program that does this, though I wouldn't pay $20 for it since I don't use Tasks in Gmail/Calendar that often. Hopefully Google will implement CalDAV for Tasks sooner than later. We can't be the only ones annoyed at this.

Mail just readds the On My Mac To Do even after I deleted it from iCal. I removed the [Gmail]/Apple Mail To Do label from Gmail online and now mail seems to be stuck loading. I think I'm about to call Apple support, since readding the label in Gmail and restarting Mail is not fixing this.

 

[Nikh]

Probably, Apple support will not recommend you anything better than add such label back, or delete and re-add account to Mail

 

[hinchesk]

Nikh, thanks for the help, not sure how you figured it, but I commend you for it. Now if only I could figure out how to sync Tasks on Google Calendar/Gmail with Reminders/To Dos, I'd be sitting pretty.

Ran into this one today. Recently noticed on a friends phone that when I added her Gmail account to her iPhone (as an Exchange account) the option to sync Reminders is now showing (didn't show on mine a couple months ago when I added my Gmail account).

So Google changed something in the past couple months that allowed Reminders to sync to their servers but no one seems to know a way to access them inside Google's mail or calendar interfaces. Nothing in Labs, nothing in Tasks... it's a mystery.

Anyone have more info?

 

[ntrigue]

I'd like to know about Google Tasks and Reminders syncing.

 

[Nikh]

I'd like to know about Google Tasks and Reminders syncing.

Probably this application will work for you: http://www.innov8tion.com/apps/igtask-for-ical/
Create iCloud account in iCal, and try to use it.

 

[mattraehl]

The iCal interface into iCloud reminders is really crappy if you use more than one reminder list. Not sure how they screwed up a simple list of lists but they did. Perhaps you could say it's more a case of trying to fit the reminders concept into the existing to-do iCal interface.

Anyways, are there any Mac apps out there that use iCloud and give a simple view of the reminders similar to what we see on iOS?

 

[Nikh]

Anyways, are there any Mac apps out there that use iCloud and give a simple view of the reminders similar to what we see on iOS?

Probably, our application can fit your needs.
However, it cannot connect to iCloud directly - it does it via iCal (however, everything works except some rare problems we are trying to figure out)