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I do the same thing cause my phone doesnt work with rtm either. It was a good idea to post it, pimvdoll!

Posted at 6:36pm on January 17, 2009

Thanks for that, very useful

Posted at 9:29pm on January 17, 2009

Thank you for sharing this. RTM sends SMS notification to my provider, but my provider treats it as "premium notification" (read: "we want to rip you off for receiving a few bytes of data, too!") which costs 50 cent a message, where as Google sends it as normal SMS messages that are free to receive. I've made the switch over to Google instead now :)

Posted at 2:21am on February 22, 2009

could you please elaborate the process a littel more sorry for being such an idot

Posted at 10:10am on March 18, 2009

withoutmotive

Thank you. I was wondering why Google Calendar wasn't updating with my tasks straight away.

Posted at 9:51am on March 27, 2009

ralfvd

I am struggling quite a bit with this tip. I have created the list, I have the webcal feed, but Google either

1) gives an error when trying to download the intial content
2) doesn't give an error, but doesn't display my events.

I have found that the event link needs authentication, so I have added my username and password in the URL ( ralfvd:>@URL ) ; when trying to manually download the ICS file, this helps, but Google still doesn't download the content. I've waited for more than 1 week, which should be enough for Google to catchup.

Any ideas? This would greatly enhance my RTM experience, as the normal SMS notification isn't working for the Country/Provider combination I am using.

TIA

Posted at 11:22am on April 7, 2009

ralfvd

It always helps to post your own problem. I had to turn on "private URL" in the General settings of RTM . After that, the URL that is mentioned per list is working flawlessly .

Posted at 2:12pm on April 7, 2009

"- Pick the URL from the "iCalendar(Events)" at the right "
Don't see this anywhere on the RTM screen. I have a URL field, which is blank to take a URL. But no "iCalendar events". Where/how do you get this?

Posted at 7:10pm on May 18, 2009

Took me a while, but I found it.

Posted at 2:14pm on May 19, 2009

For posterity: You have to have a list selected, not a task.

More details, including some screenshots, in the Help.

Posted at 5:46pm on June 2, 2009

It is taking more than 5 hours to update in Google Calendar..Any idea how to make it instant.....

Posted at 3:29pm on June 7, 2009

Even after enabling private address asking for password when using Sunbird for testing.....
Due to that google is not able to load Events through iCal...

Posted at 6:28pm on June 7, 2009

So if i add a task in the "sms list" through RTM i will get SMS reminders even if my country isnt supported by RTM (but is supported by Google calendar)? This is what i believed , and this was the main reason that i took steps recommended by pimvdnoll, but i just added a task in the "sms list" and choosed to be reminded after 10minutes , and i didn't receive SMS but i received the reminder email....
Confused!

Posted at 9:39am on June 8, 2009

yp, reminders is a must. I just had a quick look at other organisers online, than realised I couldn't be arsed learning another organiser right now. But lack of decent reminders did make me think about it.

I want my life to be auto-piloted! I want I want I want! for FREE FREE FREE!!

Posted at 1:33pm on July 22, 2009

leah.shalom

Great idea. Does adding the calendar to Google Calendar make the URL public when we take the step "Click on the 'Public Calendar Address' tab."? I realize that we set RTM to have the calendar be private in RTM, but will people be able to see the list through Google?

Thanks,
Leah

Posted at 8:08pm on October 2, 2009

leah.shalom,
When you choose "Add by URL" in Google Calendar, Google will not make the calender public unless you check the box "Make the calendar publicly accessible".

Posted at 3:00pm on October 5, 2009