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ranbarton

I appreciate this summary very much. Google still seems to be unable to see my calendar.

I will try again later, but harumph this is frustrating.

It's interesting to see how much public support you are able to offer Emily, by yourself, and how impossible it is to get a human to help you from the big, rich Googleplex.

Posted at 1:19pm on April 19, 2006

Hi Emily,

This worked for me, thanks. The main problem I had was forgetting to make my list public. I thought they were already public, because in Settings/Lists they didn't have a lock on them. I suppose that lock means something different -- I wish I knew what!

What do the locks on lists in Settings/Lists mean? Seems like they should be clickable, or a description should be displayed when hovering over them, or something.

Thanks!
Matt

Posted at 9:24pm on April 19, 2006

Ran, I'm sure Google is swamped right now (I know we were when we first launched!). They seem to be fixing bugs around the clock, so hopefully any iCalendar issues on their end will be resolved soon.

Matt, the lock just means that you can't delete those lists (Inbox and Sent currently). Looks like we forgot to mention this in the help section -- sorry! We'll fix that up.

Posted at 4:11am on April 20, 2006

Little confused and am not familiar with terms such as feeds. Help me out here.

- How do i know my feed url?
I made my 'personal' public.

- From google calendar, do I have to import the file that I downloaded or the feed url?

Thanks in advance.

Posted at 4:20am on April 20, 2006

jinwook.paeng, you can subscribe to your iCalendar feed URL so that when you change your tasks in Remember The Milk, they will show up on your Google Calendar.

An iCalendar feed is available for each of your lists. To find this:

1. Switch to the list which has the iCalendar feed you wish to access.
2. Make sure you have no tasks selected so that the list details box appears on the right.
3. Copy-and-paste the iCalendar URL from the list details box.
4. Add 'events' to the end of the URL. So,

webcal://www.rememberthemilk.com/icalendar/yourusername/123456/

becomes

webcal://www.rememberthemilk.com/icalendar/yourusername/123456/events/

You can then subscribe to this URL in Google Calendar.

From Google's help:

To add a calendar using its address, just follow these steps:

1. Under "Calendars" in the left column, click on the "+" button next to "Other Calendars."
2. Go to the "Public Calendar Address" tab.
3. Enter the appropriate calendar address (in iCal format) in the field provided, then click on "Add."

Hope this helps!

Posted at 8:10am on April 20, 2006

Thank you Emily.

I successfully followed instructions and I see my RTM calendar in my 'other' calendars in Google calendar.

However, I see no 'events' listed. I put the due dates with time but still can see them. 30 minutes have passed so far.

Posted at 1:44pm on April 20, 2006

Google Calendar seems to take a while to update subscriptions sometimes, but they said they're working to fix this (according to this thread on their Google Group).

Posted at 1:58pm on April 20, 2006

Thanks for adding this! I had been faking tasks in GCalendar as all-day events just for the sake of having one page with my calendar and tasks (trying to keep things simple, you know), but I missed RTM's capabilities.

Looking forward to Google fixing the iCal refresh problem so I can really use this. And the repeating tasks trouble, wherever that turns out to be...

Posted at 1:25am on April 22, 2006

Initially I couldn't get gCal to accept my task list, but now it works - unfortunately though it does not display any of my tasks (even after 48hrs+). I guess I just have to wait for Google to fix the problem.

Posted at 11:21am on April 26, 2006

Norman, we'd be happy to check your iCalendar feed and make sure there are no problems on our end -- if you'd like us to do this, please email us at [old address removed] with the feed URL that you've subscribed to in Google Calendar, and we'll check it out.

Posted at 11:44am on April 26, 2006

argotnaut, just letting you know that repeating tasks should now be displaying correctly on the calendar -- please let us know if you continue to experience problems.

Posted at 1:43pm on April 26, 2006

Yah, it's taking a really long time to update. It's been nearly a week and mine hasn't updated. I've looked at my iCal feed and it looks fine. It seems to include all my tasks but Google calendar never updates.

Posted at 3:31pm on April 26, 2006

ranbarton

For what it's worth, Google is almost a week late in refreshing a feed I have in my calendar from Upcoming.org, so I concur the issue is with Google and not RTM.

Frustrating.

Posted at 4:05pm on April 26, 2006

I'm not sure if there's any more information on their Google Group, but thought I'd mention that we're seeing a lot more activity from Google Calendar, and things seem to be updating more regularly than before. Perhaps try removing the subscription from Google Calendar and re-adding it, and see if that helps.

Posted at 12:02pm on April 27, 2006

Yes. my tasks come up in google calendar within minutes. Also repeating tasks problem is gone.

Thanks ppl.

Posted at 2:29pm on April 27, 2006

Yep, repeating tasks seem to be fixed.

Still doesn't seem to be refreshing for me, though. The strange thing is that I deleted the subscriptions and re-entered them, and Google "remembered" the colors and names I had assigned to the initial subscriptions -- so maybe there's something still cached in there.

Posted at 2:39am on April 28, 2006

Oh -- I think it did just refresh! Took a few hours, though.

Posted at 4:25am on April 28, 2006

Is publishing your list to a contact the same thing as making your list public? I want to use Google Calendar, but not thrilled about making my list public for all to see.
Actually, what is publishing to a contact all about?

Posted at 5:31am on April 28, 2006

doitsteve, publishing a list for a contact allows you to restrict access to your list to specific Remember The Milk users. The contacts who you have published the list for will need to be logged into their Remember The Milk account to access the list.

In contrast, publishing a list for the public will potentially allow anyone to access the list. As Google Calendar unfortunately doesn't support authenticated iCalendar feeds as yet, you'll need to publish for the public so that Google can access the list.

Posted at 12:54pm on April 28, 2006

Hello Emily,

Thank you for your reply and for a SUPER FANTASTIC site!! Remember The Milk is AWESOME!!

Posted at 5:38pm on April 28, 2006

Hello!
Could you please also add support for making Smart Lists public? I use them a lot to group my tasks by tag, but unfortunately I cannot make them public and use with Google Calendar.

(Since it's my first post here, I feel obliged to say that RTM rocks! I am a RTM addict since its release.)

Posted at 7:32am on May 11, 2006

Heartily seconded, szafranek! I actually came to the forum to ask for exactly this thing.

For example, I could make use of a smart list which searched for the tag @next, and if I could publish this to gCal that would be marvellous.

I notice that you can get the "iCalendar events" link for smart lists, so I'm guessing that it's possible in principle.

I haven't really made serious use of RTM yet, but I've been really impressed with how flexible it is. This one extra step could make it really usable for me.

Many thanks

--
Neal Dench

Posted at 9:28am on May 11, 2006

szafranek and ndench, we'll be looking into the possibility of publishing Smart Lists.

Ideally, Google would support authentication so that it wasn't necessary to make lists public in order to subscribe to them in Google Calendar. Hopefully they might support this in the future :)

Posted at 4:23pm on May 11, 2006

Well yes, that's very true I suppose. Having to make your lists public in order to publish them to gCal isn't ideal.

Posted at 7:25am on May 12, 2006

I meant to say in that last message: thanks for your prompt reply!

Posted at 7:25am on May 12, 2006

Hi

I've just started to try this out.

How quickly should the google calendar update?

I've posted a few enteries into my published list - should these be displayed within a few minutes?

thanks

Posted at 6:29pm on May 16, 2006

Hi Again

ok, it took more at least a couple of hours to update.
Hope it gets quicker ;-)

Posted at 12:14am on May 17, 2006

nomad, it will update however often Google Calendar checks the iCalendar feed -- I'm not sure how often they're checking currently, but it may take a few hours to update.

Posted at 1:22pm on May 17, 2006

Hi,
I'm a Korean user and my tasks are written in Korean.

The thing is,
my tasks and notes are fine when I see them on RTM but they break (just series of '?') on my Google Calendar.

I use firefox 1.5 w/ UTF-8 enconding for RTM and Google.

Beside this problem, I like RTM. :)

Posted at 2:56am on May 22, 2006

zezebono, unfortunately this appears to be a problem on the Google Calendar side -- it doesn't seem to properly handle Korean characters in the iCalendar feed (we've had the same report for Chinese and Japanese characters too). You might try reporting this on their help forum if you haven't done so already.

Posted at 4:18am on May 22, 2006

hhollick

When I try to add an RTM list to my Google Calendar I get an error message stating:

"Could not fetch the URL because robots.txt prevents us from crawling the URL"

I have made my list public and pasted the URL in Google as a shared public calendar.

Am I missing something?

Many thanks,
Heather

Posted at 7:19pm on May 22, 2006

Heather, can you please email us [old address removed] with the URL of your list? We can check it out and make sure there are no problems on our end. Thanks!

Posted at 2:21pm on May 23, 2006