(Brought over from the Ayoa thread to avoid hijacking it...)

Thank you, and confirmed, this seems so very useful!
https://doist.com/blog/google-calendar-todoist-integration/

Is anyone aware of other software services offering this?


satis wrote:

By contrast Todoist calendar events synced to Google Calendar can be
moved in google Calendar and the changes are immediately synced back to
Todoist itself. Ayoa says it has 2-way sync built-in as well, which is
relatively unusual.

I believe that Ticktick (premium tier) offers this option, although I'm not certain whether the sync is two-way.

Also, there are of course various software programs which offer this option (at least in their paid versions), such as Vueminder Calendar and Essential Pim.

Thanks for the suggestion on TickTick; I will check it out. We are willing to pay if it improves our work.

We rely on web services for collaboration, so this is the direction I'd prefer to take for the task manager as well.

Leib Moscovitz wrote:

I believe that Ticktick (premium tier) offers this option, although I'm
not certain whether the sync is two-way.

TickTick only has one-way sync to Google Calendar. Not only that, but apparently it's some sort of low-priority sync in which users are warned it can take up to 12 hours to sync to Google:

https://help.ticktick.com/forum/topic/372112/google-calendar-sync

Thank you, you saved me some time.

Incidentally, one task manager that seems to work 2 ways seems to be Plan https://getplan.co/today mentioned in the past here:
https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/8243

satis wrote:

TickTick only has one-way sync to Google Calendar. Not only that, but
apparently it's some sort of low-priority sync in which users are warned
it can take up to 12 hours to sync to Google:

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:

Thank you, you saved me some time.

Incidentally, one task manager that seems to work 2 ways seems to be
Plan https://getplan.co/today

Not sure why you say that. They don't seem to advertise 2-way sync. Their help page https://getplan.co/help seems to indicate it's one-way sync, like most other task apps:

"To sync the tasks scheduled in a Plan calendar to your Google Calendar, first click the settings icon in the bottom left corner of Plan. Click "Preferences", then "Notifications", and enable "Sync Tasks to Calendar". Now the Google Calendar linked to your Plan account will include all tasks scheduled into the Plan calendar. These tasks will appear as events in your Google Calendar under the newly created "Plan: Tasks" calendar."

Nothing I see about 2-way sync: making changes in GC and it reflecting back in Plan. (Plan does have its own calendar, just like TickTick, but that's just one more calendar to contend with.)

Right you are, indeed. Sorry for the misinformation.

Plan has a nice view where it can show tasks next to the calendar, and it retrieves information for external events directly from Google Calendar. One can then drag-n-drop tasks on the calendar to schedule them. These are then synced practically instantaneously to Google Calendar.

I was under the impression that one can make changes to scheduled tasks and the changes would be reflected back in Plan, but I had probably mis-tested that. I just confirmed that it is not the case.

satis wrote:

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
> Thank you, you saved me some time.
>
>Incidentally, one task manager that seems to work 2 ways seems to be
>Plan https://getplan.co/today

Not sure why you say that. They don't seem to advertise 2-way sync.

2-way sync is either a technologically thorny problem, or maybe Google charges companies for the privilege. Since Ticktick's one-way sync can be so much slower, I'm really wondering if Todoist is paying for this.

There are just a handful of other apps which integrate 2-way sync with Google Calendar, like the relatively new app/service ClickUp which is garnering a lot of attention lately in the productivity talkosphere.

https://clickup.com/google-calendar-task-sync

Another (pay) option for products that don't offer two-way sync is with a hack via a service like Zapier; as Zapier explains, "you can "fake" two way syncing by setting up two different Zaps that perform opposite actions of each other"

I gave up on Ayoa. I don't want to pay a subscription to something that is so unintuitive, clumsy, and partially functional. Having a calendar that doesn't sync with Apple calendar was a big mistake. They should rename it "task calendar"

satis wrote:

2-way sync is either a technologically thorny problem, or maybe Google charges companies for the privilege.

Perhaps for cloud-based app, I can't speak for them.
But for desktop apps, it is free and very fast. "Thorny" ? Not really, the documentation is clear and well written.
InfoQube now supports full 2-way sync with Google Calendar(s). Users have not reported any issues with sync.

Pierre Paul Landry
IQ Designer
https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/?q=node/4546

Another cloud app offering this is GQueues https://www.gqueues.com/

The unlimited levels of subtasks may be of particular interest to this forum.


Pierre Paul Landry wrote:

satis wrote:
> 2-way sync is either a technologically thorny problem, or maybe Google
charges companies for the privilege.

Perhaps for cloud-based app, I can't speak for them.
But for desktop apps, it is free and very fast.

Apparently Dynalist Pro has some form of Google Cal sync, but I'm not sure if it's two-way and how well it works:

https://help.dynalist.io/article/134-google-calendar-integration

This might not be sophisticated enough for your needs, but I just realised that Google Tasks also show up as a Google Calendar, so in this sense it 'syncs.'

Dr Andus wrote:

Apparently Dynalist Pro has some form of Google Cal sync, but I'm not
sure if it's two-way

It's not hard to find out that it's *not*.

https://blog.dynalist.io/gcal-integration/
https://help.dynalist.io/article/134-google-calendar-integration

If they don't advertise two-way sync, it's not.