{"id":307,"date":"2009-12-20T13:42:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T12:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2010-01-13T15:09:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:09:30","slug":"easy-lifehack-shared-calendars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/easy-lifehack-shared-calendars","title":{"rendered":"Easy Lifehack: Shared calendars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost 2010 and I still see people manually adding &#8216;standard&#8217; calendar events to their iCal, Outlook or whatever calendar app they use. For example the yearly (school) holidays, but even more frustrating the numerous matches of their favorite sports team! With the upcoming FIFA World Cup in South Africa I expect to see\u00a0a lot of this unnecessary data entry work being carried out in the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s end this now and start using &#8216;shared calendars&#8217;. A shared calendar means that you publish your calendar from your calendar app to the web so others can read (not write to!) your calendar. The best thing is that the calendar &#8216;receivers&#8217; are able to get all the updates automatically.<\/p>\n<p>To get started with these shared calendars, have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/icalshare.com\/\">iCalShare<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markthisdate.com\/\">MarkThisDate<\/a>. Choose your calendar, click &#8216;Add to Calendar&#8217; and pick your calendar app from the list. On my Mac iCal opens and asks me if I want to subscribe to this calendar. According to this <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/outlook\/HA101673251033.aspx#2\">article<\/a> subscribing a calendar to Outlook seems to work in the same way. Nice!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharedical1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-313 alignnone\" title=\"sharedical1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharedical1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharedical1.png 540w, https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharedical1-300x79.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharedical2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-314\" title=\"sharedical2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharedical2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharedical2.png 884w, https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharedical2-300x251.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 884px) 100vw, 884px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop unnecessary calendar data entry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,52],"tags":[287,53,290,54],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-lifehacking","tag-diy","tag-ical","tag-lifehacking","tag-outlook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ical.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKaa2-4X","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2693,"url":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/time-tracking-with-toggl","url_meta":{"origin":307,"position":0},"title":"Time tracking with Toggl","author":"Xavier Hacking","date":"November 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"At the end of each week I have to fill in\u00a0my timesheet with a breakdown of all the projects I\u00a0have been working on that week. 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