[kwlug-disc] Productivity Suites, calendars, and contacts

[John Van Ostrand]

I pay for gmail and have three domains in use. My BlackBerry syncs well
with Google mail, contacts, and calendar.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> The Calendar syncs seamlessly. Of course you have to be using Google
> Calendar from a web browser.
>
> As for tasks, for a long time Google did not have real tasks in the
> browsers. Now, I see that they add it as a separate Calendar, but have
> not used to say if it is useful or not.
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Joe Wennechuk
> <youcanreachmehere at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Do the calendar, and tasks also sync nicely?
> >
> >> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:23:20 -0500
> >> From: kb at 2bits.com
> >> To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> >> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Productivity Suites, calendars, and contacts
> >
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Joe Wennechuk
> >> <youcanreachmehere at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> > So I guess my question is what is the best way to manage my contacts
> and
> >> > calendar so they stay sync'd across my desktop, android device, and
> >> > internet. What are some of you using for this purpose?
> >>
> >> Nothing special at all.
> >> All you need is your Gmail account and an Android device, and you
> >> already have both of them.
> >>
> >> Get all your contacts from where ever you have them, and export them
> >> to a CSV file. I did that from Yahoo way back when, and Gmail imported
> >> them all (on the desktop, not on Android).
> >>
> >> Here is what Google says
> >> https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12118?hl=en
> >>
> >> Then you spend several hours cleaning them, merging duplicates,
> >> ...etc. Yes, it is tedious, but definitely worth the effort.
> >>
> >> Once you do that, you now sync your android device with your Gmail
> >> account. Automagically, everything will be kept in sync for you. You
> >> edit a contact on the phone, and it is on your desktop, and vice
> >> versa.
> >>
> >> This is the best selling point of Gmail and Android.
> >> --
> >> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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