I'd like to echo this request. My husband & I are looking for a way to sync our calendars (including ToDos) between 2 MacBooks, one desktop, a Black Berry, and a mobile phone. Spanning Sync handles calendar events gorgeously, but ToDos remain thorny.

I use RTM (managed through Google Calendar, and subscribed to through iCalendar) for my personal ToDos, but in order to use it for work, I would need to have proper syncing with iCalendar.

In my ideal world, there would also be tighter integration between the ToDos and calendars. For instance, the ability to attach a ToDo to a particular iCal calendar (rather than having them in a seperate, subscribed RMT calendar.)

I want this too!

Another Mac user who would dig iCal sync. I can also help get the word out by writing it up at Ars Technica.

Aye aye, another RTM and Spanning Sync User voicing a need for this!

I too would love this, especially since a lot of Mac programs already sync with iCal's todo list. I use Filemaker to keep track of everything for my business and it integrates out of the box with iCal. If it could sync with RTM that would be a killer app for me, and I'm sure plenty of others as well.

GCalDaemon does exactly what Spanning Sync does and much more and it is open source, free, and platform independent. Setup requires the command line though.

I'm so on board with this. I would probably even pay for Pro if I could fully manage tasks (or even just mark them complete!) in iCal and/or Mail.

ditto

i REALLY want to see this happen! If the Remember The Milk developers don't have the time and resources to commit to a project like this, I would love to get into trying to do it on my own using the API that is available. But, if this sort of this is in development, could you let the users know so that someone like me doesn't waste the time doing it (since my implementation would probably be buggier, not as clean, and more poorly integrated)? If there are no plans to do such a thing, then let us know too!

Me too..

agreed.

Me too... :p

iCal + RTM ToDo integration is what I've been waiting for.

I would very much like to see this as well

Ditto

please! anyone know of ANY half way solution - I'd love to publish my OmniFocus todo list somewhere on the web to access remotely!

ditto

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That would be great!

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yep! +1

can has ical sync? kthnxbai

Gotta say...Love the LOLspeak. But I think you misspelled thx.

:-)

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count me on

Would be awesome.. +1

Count me in as a Pro subscriber if iCal to/from Rememberthemilk is supported.

Along with my recent vote for Symbian sync or app (or both), iCal sync would seal the deal for me to become a Pro subscriber. Let's get this up and running!

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I'll buy Pro accounts for everyone at my office when you deliver this.

+1!!!!!!!!

Plus one for me too. And for my office as well.

i'm frankly surprised this doesnt exist yet!

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This is absolutely needed
Since the iphone is not able to manage todos I need RTM, but it has no sense that when I'm home using iCal I cannot edit or add new tasks.

Another vote here.

Right now I'm using a mashed up solution using Fluid.app and the RTM iPhone interface as a menu bar drop down. Hopefully we'll see an update soon!

Count me in! +1

You can count another vote.

I have to second this. That feature is missing!

here, here.

yes, please :)

i would also LOVE this feature.

I would also be willing to develop and work on it myself, but the API for RTM is not open.

+100!!!

+1 <--Pro User

+1

ditto

meeeeeeeeeeee, tooooo

same here

i agree and it please

Would love to have this!

me too!

Excellent idea. It would fatten up The Milk from 2% to Full Cream. May we please have some RTM feedback?

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Mee too

please - this is crucial for mac users!

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Please? I want it.

I would love that!!!

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Me too :)

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anyone try this....

http://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/answers/icalendar/appleical.rtm

+1 YES !!!

ditto

ME Too

and me!

+1

Sign me up

yes plz

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@sofrankly:

GCalDaemon syncs your local ical calendars and/or Lightning calendars with Google calendars, but i don't see how it would be able to sync ical files with lightning or remember the milk files. Perhaps its possible to sync your remember the milk calendar in GCal with an ical calendar? I feel the items would show up as events as opposed to tasks. If you know of how to do this, please post back. Also I've found that the sync does not really work with deleted items. I always wind up having to delete items manually from both ical and google calendar.

You can sort of do this if you have set up imap email accounts with Apple Mail. Then you can create calendars on those imap accounts in ICAL, which in turn appear in an "Apple Mail to Do" folder in said account. If you use gmail and firefox's remember the milk extension, you can theoretically convert all emails with the "apple Mail to do" label into a task. However, that extension doesn't work all the time because gmail is constantly changing its code. Therefore, I use Thunderbird to drag the messages from "apple mail to do" to the activities pane, where they are converted into tasks. It's the best workaround I can come up with.

For me, this is the missing link, ability to sync tasks in Ical with those of thunderbird's lightning with those of remember the milk. My workaround is to use

the remember the milk provider extension for Thunderbird in conjunction, but this should be a hella lot easier.

+1, I'll buy pro account if RTM is able to sync to do list with ICAL

+1 Please!!

+1!

+1

+1 ... I'd love to have an iCal integration as well (not only subsription).

+1, same here
and yes, I'll by a pro account, if RTM will be able to sync with iCal in both ways (iCal->RTM; RTM->iCal), too.

+1 =)

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moo te !

sorry... I got overwhelmed by the "ical-compatible cow" effect.

>>> me too !

Am currently warming up the credit card to get RTM pro in case this feature becomes available.

please! +1

me too... BIG PLUS ONE !!!

+1

Yes, please!!

I would pay for a Pro account for this functionality. Hoping RTW developers are working on this.

This would be great!

+1 - This would definitely lock up my Tasks situation across Windows Mobile, iPod touch and my OS X desktop.

+1

+1

I would love this

+1

This would be huge for me, as it would open up the ability to sync with other application that do not currently support RTM (Things, The Hit List, Omnifocus, etc.).

Please?

+1

+1 for sure

I'd go Pro for this. I love the ability to kick any bit of text in Apple Mail over to a To Do, but then that To Do is sadly trapped on my Mac.

Apple iCal To Do support is pretty limited, but if I could just get that Email --> To Do --> Web & iPhone, I'd have everything I need.

Id also go pro to do this along with 5 other mac users at my org

I'd go pro for 2 way ical sync too.

Hiya RTMers,

I am going to take an opposing view here.

I used to sync tasks between iCal and my palm pilot and it was a HEADACHE. Sorry for the caps but I have painful memories. So many duplicated tasks. So much dropped information because the iCal task manager was so limited! Really-compare it to RTM. The worst part about it was trying to bring my cal headings inline with my task headings. You know, David Allen (GTD baby!) draws a clean line between tasks and calendar items-they're just different animals.

You all want to email tasks. I understand. YOU CAN. Look in your RTM settings and there is a tab called something like 'Info' and there you will find an email address called something like: 'yourRTMname+wq8023409@rtm.com'

Go into your Address Book app, mac users, and add that email to your contact card.

Now you are free to email your tasks till the cows come home with the milk. Just compose your emails in Mail app, type your own name in the 'To' field and send that task straight to your RTM inbox. -Be sure to get the proper address, for me it is a nobrainer as I type my rtm profile name and it is there in three keystrokes.

So, please, lets all forget about iCal tasks. Apple did-why do you think they left it out of the iPhone? Honestly, there should have been a tasks app from the start. But Apple realized that there are better solutions out there for tasks than what iCal tasks (yuck!) could do.

And Hooray for RTM for doing it. No really. After a year of task management on a palm and iCal I am never, never, going back to iCal tasks. Bottom line-Apple has moved on, you should move on too.

agreed!

Thanks for your feedback everyone. I have added your suggestion to the list for the developers to have a look at.

Krissy, I very much applaud your arrival here on these boards and think it bodes well for RTM as a product that they have someone like you here. I've been a RTM user since launch, and I think it's an invaluable service.

Without sounding too cranky, could I ask you to clarify something, please? This thread began on 2/6/07, over _two years_ ago, and you are just now adding this idea to the list for the developers to look at. Can I possibly have that right?

Hi ranbarton,

This thread had actually already been added to the list for the developers, as have most, if not all, feature request threads. Of course simply adding it to the list doesn't mean it will be implemented - but it's a start. Hope this answers your question :)

Thank you for your reply. I am reassured that this issue was already on the list of things to ponder, and I fully realize that list offers no guarantees about implementation.

I would love two way syncing with ical too

Consider me a plus +1. Finding it kinda ridiculous this feature isn't available by someone else yet.

+1

Yes, RTM / iCal sync would be excellent.

+1

Yes, RTM / iCal sync would be excellent.

And it should be able to open a small calendar with a week in one view.(like a timetable).

Yes, iCal sync with RTM please!

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would be good!

I'd love better Mac integration too - sync with ToDo!

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+1 !

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+1 please!

Can I add (yet) another vote for this. I don't want it for ical itself, but because ical hooks into other areas of OS X - specifically, dashboard widgets. The dashboard widgets that integrate with iCal are far better than those that have been developed for RTM directly. Check out RememberTheMoof vs DoBeDo. No comparison - I want to use DoBeDo and have those tasks sync up with my RTM account.

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This would be SO helpful! Please add this feature!

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me too.

that would be awesome!!

+1 ...this would be amazing.

I'm not using this app until this is available... please support this!

+1

definitely needed

+1

This would be wonderful!!

+1!!

This would make me go pro and use 100% RTM for task managing!

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If so: +12043157492859084103287512?

else: +1

+1, would be great for mac users.

absolutely. this is an amazing idea. +1

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another one

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+1 here as well.

I just want to point out something somebody mentioned like 2 yrs ago on this thread about his nightmare sync issues with Palm. I had the same problems - I couldn't stand it so I dumped Palm and got a Crackberry with some $20 add-on app that did the job just fine, I would have paid $100 after the messes Palm made with my calendars and to dos.

But the reason that sucked so much was because it was two different calendaring formats trying their best to talk to each other and failing most of the time. That's why standards, like calDAV which is how iCal and GCal and Mobileme sync (not perfectly but a million times better than iCal hooking up to a Palm years ago) are so important and RTM is already getting there with subscription to lists via iCal standard file protocols. Standards allow for more consumer choice as you don't get forced into outfitting yourself only with, say, oh Microsoft products, because they use proprietary format for something rather than a standard. When configured carefully - sync is pretty delicate and I think deserves it's own huge industry of consultants so people wouldn't have so many troubles by letting pros set it up - you'll likely experience a very small number of incidents related to a sync gone bad. I've been using GCal and syncing over calDAV to my iCal apps on three different Macs for just about a year now and there hasn't been one single instance of data loss. And I attribute that the use of the standards as well as my anal-retentive set up to ensure nothing would fail.

IN THE MEANTIME, those seeking a work around for true bidirectional To Do sync across any device that is iCalendar standard based should try... yes, I'm not kidding... the new Yahoo beta calendar. It works like a charm. If you have a to do list already, export it to an .ics file, upload it into Yahoo Calendar, and sync away. It's reliable. It works. I haven't lost any data.

I use GCal for my calendar syncing all across my machines, but they dropped the ball and there's no offline intergrated Task List, they already had calDAV sync set up, why they couldn't make their Task List a part of that is beyond me. And I need my calendars and to do's offline, it's a must, in a dedicated calendar (not an Adobe Air app or Google Gears iteration).

So Yahoo of all things actually saved the day - the whole calendar project is actually looking pretty solid. It's not targeted at business users so it's not filled with feature bloat like Gcal. They've done good work.

+1

+1 (AND Pro Willingness!)

Also I'd LOVE to be able to export my iCal Tasks to RTM in some fashion. I currently use Appigo ToDo with iCal and am considering making a move to RTM so that it....works better with both my iPhone and the ability to email tasks to myself.

Ah, my personal issue is now RESOLVED. As per above, I use Appigo ToDo....so I just went used the Switch Services option to change to RTM and I chose to Keep my existing tasks so that these were uploaded to RTM. Of course, I had to go Pro but it is worth it based on what I want to do!

http://www.appigo.com/appigo-sync/faqs/switching/switching-services

hear hear

I want this too, it's the must-have function which still missing.

i want this too!!! did anybody found a way for updating RTM tasks from ical??

Give us iCal todo-sync.

Yes please.. I will +340594574950445945 this :)

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+1 !!!!!!

I so want this too!

+1 (Give us iCal todo-sync.)

I just signed up for RTM, thinking it could do this, only to find out it can't. I want to be able to have two way sycn, iCal to do list -- RTM -- Android.

It's just crazy, with so much demand for this type of thing out there, that RTM isn't doing it. :(

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That's about 120 +1's and 3 years. Remember way back when this thread was just a little newborn comment. So full of life!

all i can say, is yes please!

Pretty please!

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Will upgrade to Pro if this comes about...

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me three

+1 using the import icalendar feed is a nightmare

...and being able to use Apple Mail to create tasks would be so useful.

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+1 (for what its worth!)

+1'000,000 votes here!

+1

What a wonderful Christmas gift it would make from RTM to the community!

another vote here, would seriously want this to happen - yesterday.

Another vote! and, any kind of update from developers would be very helpful re: consumers considering moving to pro.

Thanks! Love this product.

In the meantime, here's an free app called taskSync that was just posted on LIfehacker that provides a solution to this whole problem.

It uses a preference pane app that does configurable syncs between RTM and sync task lists, it works in real time, and is 2-way. Very adaptable to needs.

http://bitbuiltsoftware.com/

The only caveat -- Snow Leopard 10.6 only.

Has anyone had luck w/ tasksync yet? I can't really get it to work, even under 10.6. It seems like it's real close to working but the developer hasn't updated it in a while...

Nothing appears in "Sync lists" for 4 weeks. Under 10.6.6.

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