Google Calendar Integration

Applicable Filide: Added as a bug ticket here https://bullet.canny.io/bugs/p/gcal-events-showing-on-differ…

Hamish Fantastic thanks!

Hamish set it up this morning. This is perfect, thank you so so much!

Impossible Arlette: You'll be able to attach one google calendar account, and any number of calendars attached to that account. If you would like to access calendars from multiple accounts, you may be able to share your various accounts' calendars with one account, and then integrate with that account.

Hamish Good idea with the repeat improvements first. Personally, I could care less if tasks integrate, as I don't use Google Tasks much. But if you're able to, couldn't hurt to add that feature in case some would like it. My biggest thing is events. If I add an event in Bullet, I want it to also add to Google Calendar. And the ability to add notes or even tasks under an event would just make it awesome. :) Appreciate all your hard work on this!

Tragic Anne-corinne: I definitely plan for you to be able to add notes/tasks underneath :)

Hamish Perfect! Same with tags as well. Since the device calendar is being synced on my phone, if I look at the weekly view, I have 7 events this week. I'd like to be able to set Bullet tags on those (even though they're coming from GCal), like I have a tag for the kiddo's events and things, one for my work, etc. But if I open Bullet on the web on my work computer, which is honestly where I use it the most, I have *no* events this week. I could (and have) add them to Bullet but then they'll be duplicated on Bullet and the GCal is shared with the family so I kinda have to leave events there :)

Tragic Anne-corinne Hamish I concur with everything here. Integration with Google Tasks isn’t important to me (and the Google Tasks API is severely limited as well, last I checked you can’t sync times or repeats). And thank you for all your hard work on this excellent app :-)

Thanks for the feedback both of you :) My question about google tasks is more wether people would prefer to sync a Bullet task to a Google task OR a Google event. As you mentioned, the google tasks api is limited. Maybe people would like to sync bullet tasks to events instead, and then they can be timeboxed etc. 🤔 I can see a usecase for it but don't want to assume.

Hamish That’s a good point—I can definitely see the use case for time boxing. I would just ask that if you decide to sync Bullet tasks as GCal events, you give the user the option to sync either Bullet tasks, Bullet events, or both. I wouldn’t personally have the desire to sync tasks, though I can understand why someone would like to.

Psychiatric Becca Don't worry, I have no plans to remove the device cal :) this will be in addition to it

Noisy Lauralee I don't have a timeframe for this one unfortunately. But it's the top requested feature now so I for sure am taking that in mind.

Hamish Glad to hear it’s top of mind! This missing feature is the only thing keeping me from committing to Bullet—I need feature parity across iOS and web apps so that I can trust my system whether I’m using my personal devices or my work computer.

Eldest Charmine: I've prioritized the rest of this year's features, and this will come within a two months :)

Eldest Charmine: I don't fully understand what you mean here. Do you mean that gcal events should act like device cal events? Where you click on it and it navigates to google calendar? Or do you mean that new bullet events should sync with google calendar?

Hamish Apologies for taking so long to reply to this, missed the notification. I meant both of those options you outlined—a true two-way sync. So both existing GCal events and new events created in Bullet appear like Device Cal events currently do, that way we can view and edit eg. location in the Bullet app and also see our Bullet events in GCal/preferred device calendar app.

Eldest Charmine: Ah I see. Interesting thought about clicking into google calendar. My original plan was for gcal events to act like a normal Bullet event, you click on it and it takes you to the standard Bullet event page. But it does make more sense for it to click through to google maps, because then you have more control over gcal specific attributes like invitees. As for 2 way sync, gcal will definitely get that. I don't have plans to do that with device cal, as the api there is very limited and a 2 way sync would be quite fragile.

Hamish Glad to hear all of this :-) (I’m the original user you replied to, didn’t realize I had accidentally set up a second account on my work computer). It would be great to be able to edit GCal attributes on Bullet events, but I trust your decisions as you know the app and its codebase best of course

Renewed Raphaela: good info thanks

Safe Gianna: Yes, it will :)