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Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 6, 2011 at 01:58 PM
Pimlical now has an Android app:
http://www.pimlicosoftware.com/index.html
I used to be a huge Datebk6 fan but sadly I have no use for Android, as I’ve been captured by the Apple people.
Posted by Ken
Dec 6, 2011 at 04:01 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>Pimlical now has an Android app:
>http://www.pimlicosoftware.com/index.html
>
>I
>used to be a huge Datebk6 fan but sadly I have no use for Android, as I’ve been captured by
>the Apple people.
Thanks for passing along this news. I’ll give it a look as I was also a huge DateBk fan, but I am now using Pocket Informant and I am not certain if I could switch back as I am multi-platform.
—Ken
Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 7, 2012 at 09:41 PM
For those wishing to avoid Google and the Apple cloud: DirectSync between Pimlical/Android and Pimlical/Desktop is Here.
http://pimlicosoftware.com/DirectSyncAnnouncement.html
Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 7, 2012 at 10:40 PM
I downloaded Pimlical for Windows Desktop (http://pimlicosoftware.com/index.html) to trial it, it costs $19.95. One possible benefit of using it would be to back up a Google Calendar account and be able to use the calendar when the Internet is down.
This made me want to check some free desktop calendar alternatives that can sync and save Google Calendar data but it seemed that many of them either stopped being developed (Sunbird) or are bundled with email (which I don’t need) or are no longer free (Rainlendar Pro). I don’t mind paying a bit of money for it, though free would be nice.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good desktop calendar for the PC that syncs with Google Calendar, mostly for backup and archiving purposes but also if it’s superior to using Google Calendar on a daily basis?
(Pimlical looks sophisticated but I’m not entirely taken by the interface.)
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 8, 2012 at 06:56 AM
Dr Andus wrote:
>Does anyone have a suggestion for a
>good desktop calendar for the PC that syncs with Google Calendar, mostly for backup
>and archiving purposes but also if it’s superior to using Google Calendar on a daily
>basis?
My suggestion is to use Outlook, which most probably you already have. I’m not referring to Outlook as an interface necessarily, but rather as a database platform equivalent to Google online. You can set up the sync with Google’s own free sync utility. There on, Outlook’s data can be accessed by a variety of programs.
A small gem I used in the past was Datelens, a brilliantly space-efficient zoomable calendar view. I’m not sure whether it still works with recent versions of Outlook, but I expect it to: http://windsorinterfaces.com/datelens.shtml
I admit that I am quite happy with Google calendar, so even though my calendar data is continuously synced with my desktop, I do most of my work in the browser. In my Android phone I use Jorte which I find great.