SyncMyCal Mobile - Update w/2-way Sync
June 26th, 2008 Posted in Technology | Tagged with: backup, calendar, cell phone, favorites, google, gtd, home, mac, mobile, PDA, storage, sync, syncmate, syncmycal, system, Travel, web apps, Windows MobileWell I was able to get everything working with SyncMyCal and now I have a perfect sync setup IMHO. Here’s what I’ve done:
- Google Calendar (all three of them) are my master. I’ve used that for over a year to enter every event/appointment/etc. so I wanted to start there to grab all events.
- I grabbed the latest copy of SyncMyCal Mobile and installed it on my phone
- I first had to Download Only my three calendars from Google (Personal, Work, Travel Schedule) to the phone. I grabbed a few weeks worth of past events and a month or two of future events (depending on the calendar and my needs) to download. I made sure to tag the event with the proper category (calendar) name so that when I viewed an event on my phone, it had a category with the same name as the Google calendar it came from.
- After I was satisfied that all events were downloaded properly, I changed the operation type from Download Only to Sync (Google precedence) and re-ran the sync. If you did it right, you should see no duplicate items. Before I did this with the large date range, I tried each calendar with only 1 or 2 days in the future and past to ensure if I messed something up, I didn’t lose/duplicate too many events.
- Now that my phone and Google were sync’d, I went back to Sync-Mate and setup a sync of my phone calendar to the Mac. Before running the sync, I made sure that the only calendars I had in iCal were three blank calendars, again with the same names as the Google calendars and the categories in the phone.
- I ran a Mobile device -> Mac sync with All Calendars first to load all events into iCal.
- Once this was done, I did a Mac <-> Mobile Device sync. With no duplicates, I was done!
I now use my phone as the “middle man” between Google Calendar and iCal, but since all syncing is done 2-way, I can add an event anywhere and it will sync across the other two platforms. Since I travel most of the time and I’m not near my Mac, that sync wasn’t as important, but it’s nice when I am home. The over-the-air sync of SyncMyCal Mobile is critical since I rarely can connect my phone to a computer (my work laptop doesn’t have Outlook and Lotus Notes doesn’t sync to the phone very well).
I hope this helps anyone trying to setup a Windows Mobile PDA to sync to their Mac and Google Calendar. Let me know your thoughts/questions in the comments







