Plancake

Google Calendar Integration (Beta)

Manage your Plancake scheduled tasks on Google Calendar, one of the best online calendars.

You can connect Plancake to your Google Calendar account from the Plancake Settings or from the All scheduled view.

Usage

Upon activation, a secondary calendar called Plancake is created on your Google Calendar account automatically.
You may need to reload your Google Calendar page in order to see it.
When you see it, just select it by clicking on its name.

Straight after activation, make sure the timezone and daylight saving settings are identical in these 3 places:

• the Plancake settings
• the general settings for Google Calendar
• the settings for the secondary calendar Plancake on Google Calendar

This integration is a two-way integration: changes in one application are reflected back to the other

• when deleting a task on Plancake, that task also gets deleted on Google Calendar
• the same goes for adding/editing: once an event is added on Google Calendar, the same event is added to the Plancake Inbox so that you can categorize it later
• you can very conveniently drag and drop events on Google Calendar and have their due date changed on Plancake automatically
• tasks marked as done on Plancake are deleted on Google Calendar, unless they are repeating tasks
• you may need to click the refresh button on both Google Calendar and Plancake for the changes to be visible

If you want to reset the Plancake/Google Calendar connection:

• de-activate the connection from the Plancake Settings
• delete the Plancake secondary calendar on Google Calendar (be careful not to lose important data!)
• re-activate the connection from the Plancake Settings

Limitations

• After some use, Google Calendar may be not completely accurate. At that stage, we suggest you just reset the integration as explained in the guide.
  Anyway we encourage you to always use Plancake as the reference everytime you do a change in your scheduled tasks.
• In order to prevent accidental deletions, tasks deleted on Google Calendar don't get automatically deleted on Plancake
• The end date for a repetition is not supported on Plancake: Plancake will just ignore it
• Editing only one occurrence in a series of repeating tasks is not supported on Plancake: Plancake would create a brand new task
• You can't set events for the last or second last day of the month on Google Calendar. Good news is you can do it on Plancake and that will be reflected back to Google Calendar.

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