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How to sync RTM with Thunderbird?

psinexus13 says:

Hi folks,
i use RTM, too and it works fine with google calendar. but how does this work with thunderbird? rtm opens a new calender ("other calendars") at google and i just treid to sync this with the XML, just then i just see the header as shown at google calenders (ToDos for xx day). At google i click on this header and get a fancy RTM popup with the task. Bot how to get this to thnderbird? any idea?

Posted at 8:58am on December 29, 2007

arthurhch Pro says:

You need the lightning add on. There you can add the RTM iCalendar Service URL that is visible on the Info tab of your account.
Arthur

Posted at 7:41am on January 3, 2008

brent.hopkins says:

There is a Thunderbird extension called Provider for Google which should also help with your issue. Also I second the advice to install the Lightning extension; it's terrific. In fact, spend some time browsing the Mozilla Add-ons, there are a lot of really good extensions for Tbird.

Posted at 2:39pm on January 4, 2008

red_five says:

Yes, use Lightning, and add the 2 RtM iCal URLs as new remote calendars. The integration is only one-way at this time, unfortunately: you can read tasks in TB that have been added using the RtM website or email or SMS, but TB + Lightning cannot add tasks to the list.

The Provider for Google Calendar requires Lightning to work, and it is bidirectional, but the GCal provider does nothing with regard to RtM.

Posted at 3:42am on March 30, 2008

allspiritseve says:

Is there anything being done about being ably to sync RTM and lightning? (ie bidirectional)

Posted at 1:56am on April 22, 2008

micheal.wu says:

I made a prototype for a RTM Provider for Tbird+Lightning. It doesn't have full functionality but it's passable if you use the bare minimums.

See here:
http://rtm.tbird.mwu.googlepages.com/home
(and use at your own discretion!)

Posted at 3:59am on April 26, 2008

aaronhh Pro says:

http://rtm.tbird.mwu.googlepages.com/home

Posted at 6:05am on April 26, 2008

parandroid says:

Micheal,

Thanks for making that add-on!
My experience so far, however, is that it doesn't sync back to RTM but is only one-way. Anyone else having more success in this respect?

Posted at 9:42pm on April 28, 2008

parandroid says:

Apologies! I just checked, and it did in fact update. I guess it was a bit delayed. Good work!

Posted at 9:44pm on April 28, 2008

psk Pro says:

I have a somewhat convuluted solution that works for me.

Using the Milksync for windows mobile and then Birdiesync to synchronise my iPAQ with Thunderbird. This gives me bi-directional synching of my task list through all my applications.

Posted at 12:49am on May 1, 2008

fnkps says:

Kudos to Mr. Wu for his provider, but I can't get it to work for me - probably because I'm too dumb to figure out how to allow write access to my RTM account. Glad there are many folks out there brighter than me.

Posted at 6:04am on May 2, 2008

fnkps says:

And twelve hours later, I did figure it out. The site that was most helpful to my little mind was

http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/05/remember-milk-provider-extension-for.html

which is a nice howto. Just look for the new task that shows up after adding the calendar, and follow the url it provides. Works just fine.

Again, thanks Michael, great app.

Ken

Posted at 6:46pm on May 2, 2008

rahulbatra1 says:

it works well for me. Only problem is that it cannot update due dates back to rtm servers.

Posted at 12:21am on May 23, 2008

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