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Best Personal Calendar / Planner / Organizer

Best Calendar App and best Widgets

  • iRT Calendar App

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  • Androidlet Calendar Widget

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  • aniAgenda Widget

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I have been using Jorte for a while, syncing it with Google and the 2 or 3 custom calendars I created. However I recently noticed that my Jorte is NOT showing what Google calls "Other Calendars" such as Holidays, Sports, etc. Those "other calendars" can be seen online but they do NOT show up in Jorte.

Another calendar that I recently installed, "Business Calendar Beta" I believe it is called, DOES show EVERY calendar including Holidays or sports if you so chose but my Jorte does not.

Does anyone know if there is a way that Jorte WILL show the "Other Calendars"??

THANK YOU
 
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I've had problems choosing the right calendar and finally I decided to develop one myself. I tried Jorte, CalenGoo and Pocket Informant. All of them are good, but I needed in one product:
- good integration with Google calendars
- Google tasks
- ability to quickly add, mark as done and delete tasks
Particularly the last was importnat, since I am a heavy user of Google tasks.

From these 3, Jorte does not provide syncing tasks with an external service, and in all using tasks is difficult. It looks to me like their developers treat gtasks as a secondary add-on. To me tasks are in fact more important than calendar.

So I worked for a while and created Total Agenda (https://market.android.com/details?id=org.inse.pim) with some friends of mine. Right now the app is free, so anybody can have a look and see if my vision has an appeal.

Please do not treat it as a spam. I sincerely share my view about the best organizer: Jorte, CalenGoo and Pocket Informant are good, but Total Agenda is something I use every day and I like it ;)
 
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I am really looking for a STABLE, RELIABLE calendar that won't mess up my times when synching.

My old AT&T Tilt shifted all of my times by an hour once and totally messed up my entire calendar because I added dates and times after this happened and had some shifted and some correct. I need a goof-proof solution.

I also LOVE seeing what is on each day (written out) in month at a glance mode. I know Jort, iRT, and Pad do this. Does Gemini?

Among the apps that do show what is written on each day in month mode, which is the most stable? Which offers the highest level of convenience, flexibility, and options when setting things like recurring events, etc.? Which handle daylight savings time changes the best?

What he said!!!! really just want a calendar that WORKS for invites FROM ANY EMAIL and has a nice view to them as well..
 
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Jorte was okay- it did a good job syncing calendars and task lists, but it didn't do a very good job with tagging separate kinds of lists, which is how I prefer to organize. It is also a bit dry. I tried Astrid simultaneously, and so far, it is a far better program. Astrid does a great job with keeping track of various lists and does send you little creative reminders based on when you told it you wanted to be done with various tasks. You can put icons on your home page to represent those lists and access them quickly- such as "appointments" and "home projects" and "errands". It obviously syncs to your google calendar, although setting alarms and adding events takes longer than I would like it too.

Part of the problem is that I came from a Palm Centro, which I LOVED for setting alarms, task lists, etc. It was fast, elegant, and easy to manage. It didn't sync with Google, but I didn't care. Now I sync with Google, but everything takes a little longer. My google calendar alarm isn't effective at keeping me scheduled by itself because the "alarm" is a short and soft notification (so I don't get clobbered for every little detail-) and if I happen to miss it, I miss my appointment! It doesn't require that I check off anything, and it doesn't repeat itself until I acknowledge I've seen it like my palm centro did. Astrid has the "RING until I answer" option which is helpful, but it doesn't have the easy option of just going off, and reminding you every 10 minutes until you say enough already, nor is it set up to show the appointment, and easily remind you in advance. You have to set the appointment for earlier if you want it to ring for earlier and then remind yourself in the notes section what time your appointment is really scheduled for.

Maybe there isn't a better APP- I haven't found one yet. But My vote is definitely for Astrid so far. I have had contact with the author a few times, and he was very helpful. Only bug that "bugs" me is that it keeps an eternal log of all your tasks, even after you delete them. Why???? Also, I wish when I were setting a date it would show a true calendar so you can see what day of the week you are picking rather than just a little date and time window.

I'm satisfied with Astrid, like it better than anything else, but not yet overjoyed.

I am with you, came from BB not Palm, but same idea... that the organization in general was better thought out. Was hoping that with honeycomb they would have something better in the way of calendars however they appear to be still VERY YOUNG when it comes to business organization. While Apple continues to strengthen theirs and BB of course dominates... hard pressed to keep my droid. thank God for return policies :)
 
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I've had problems choosing the right calendar and finally I decided to develop one myself. I tried Jorte, CalenGoo and Pocket Informant. All of them are good, but I needed in one product:
- good integration with Google calendars
- Google tasks
- ability to quickly add, mark as done and delete tasks
Particularly the last was importnat, since I am a heavy user of Google tasks.

From these 3, Jorte does not provide syncing tasks with an external service, and in all using tasks is difficult. It looks to me like their developers treat gtasks as a secondary add-on. To me tasks are in fact more important than calendar.

So I worked for a while and created Total Agenda (https://market.android.com/details?id=org.inse.pim) with some friends of mine. Right now the app is free, so anybody can have a look and see if my vision has an appeal.

Please do not treat it as a spam. I sincerely share my view about the best organizer: Jorte, CalenGoo and Pocket Informant are good, but Total Agenda is something I use every day and I like it ;)

Tried it but still needs a LOT of work... opens black for me then eventually turns "usable" things like create calendar entry are a bit clunky and would appear to be "leaky" in terms of memory if i had to guess...
 
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hi
i love my calendars on andriod - i have SO many :D

main cal is Pocket Informant - used this on ios and wm too

for task related events i use Agenda Widget and Quick Agenda - great apps imo :)

recently move from gemini to Business Calendar as it looks nice and has better support imo

oh, an i use Pure calendar as widget for PI cause it doesnt have one yet

think that is call of them :D

cheers
dan

......am i late for something! ;)
 
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Thanks in advance for ur help. I hope people are still responding to this thread.

Did Calendar Pad take away the option for 'recurring'???


Thank u

Actually just found it....in the menu. But calling it. 'Call another sop's is devieving

Otherwise. Tried jorte OK at best. The letters are small and light. There may be better agenda ones out there. But for the ones where u just look at the widget Calendar Pad rocks
 
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I've tried the stock calendar, Business Calendar, Jorte and several other calendars. Then I tried Calengoo. Although Business Calendar is a close second, Calengoo tops my list with Google Calendar and Agenda integration and the Agenda view. I can't believe no one has mentioned Calengoo. Jorte just didn't seem as clean to me, although it has a lot of options.
 
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+1 for Business Calendar for Android | AppBrain.com

and I use it with this widget: Smooth Calendar for Android | AppBrain.com

This allows you to move Bus Cal to SD (where widgets won't work), and to use this much better widget.

I also use this for syncing stuff to Google Tasks: Any.DO: To Do List | Task List for Android | AppBrain.com

It works well (as does Gtasks), and is much better organized than Google Tasks on the Calendar page. Would be perfect if it also synced to Calender.

But I use this to get around that: http://www.appbrain.com/app/quick-event/com.rdr.quickadd

...and for more, here's another poll with more options: http://androidforums.com/android-applications/26431-best-calendar-app.html
 
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Also to jump in this thread....I am using Calendar Pad Pro but that seems to suffer the same limitation as the standard diary apps - syncing with Google Calendar only brings in the past three months of appointments.

Any of the other solutions able to give me my whole Google calendar on my phone? My calendar online goes back two and a half years.....
 
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I am still sold on Business Calendar. I ike the User Interface, the semi-transparent widgets,the nice agenda layout, syncs with multie google calendars I can turn on or off fromdispaying.

But I really like the updated ability to schedule bi-weekly recurring events like an every other Friday scheduled reminder. And the hotlink feature where phone numbers, email addresses, web sites etc are recognized and become an active link to click and make a call, etc.
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Also to jump in this thread....I am using Calendar Pad Pro but that seems to suffer the same limitation as the standard diary apps - syncing with Google Calendar only brings in the past three months of appointments.

Any of the other solutions able to give me my whole Google calendar on my phone? My calendar online goes back two and a half years.....

Brykins:
I can see ALL of my google calendars on myphone desktop using Business Calendar.

I click on the specific day from the calendar widget, then click on an item inthe agenda widget shown in the pic above in another post.

This opens up the google calendar via the app. Whenyou select month view, you will see all of your google calendars, color coded so you know which calendar contain an event if theyeach have an event on the same day, etc.

I can aso click at the bottom of the month view where there are tabs for each google calendar. Clicking these either turn on or off a google calendar info from showing on your screen
 
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It's not that I can't see my calendars, it's just that Google's sync ONLY seems to bring in things that are less than three months old. Not a problem if you NEVER have to reset your phone, but I last re-installed my OS in December, so only have appointments in my calendar from September onwards.

It's a known issue with workarounds that involve turning off sync, setting dates backwards, turning on sync, etc, which have various degrees of success, but if Google want to be taken seriously then this is the sort of thing that needs to be fixed for business use.
 
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It's not that I can't see my calendars, it's just that Google's sync ONLY seems to bring in things that are less than three months old. Not a problem if you NEVER have to reset your phone, but I last re-installed my OS in December, so only have appointments in my calendar from September onwards.

It's a known issue with workarounds that involve turning off sync, setting dates backwards, turning on sync, etc, which have various degrees of success, but if Google want to be taken seriously then this is the sort of thing that needs to be fixed for business use.

You are right about Google should want to get steps ahead with a more business-oriented calendar function that can handle what youve posted. Ive not logged events beyond when I started using google with this app. Perhaps I will do some analysis on this. Good point.

Meanwhile, does Galaxy's post offer a workaround with Jorte? Its gotten good reviews.
 
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Also to jump in this thread....I am using Calendar Pad Pro but that seems to suffer the same limitation as the standard diary apps - syncing with Google Calendar only brings in the past three months of appointments.

Any of the other solutions able to give me my whole Google calendar on my phone? My calendar online goes back two and a half years.....


I like companion link. Not perfect but pretty good and it will do what ur asking.
 
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