Hi All,
I’ve managed to export my Google Calendar, however not the tasks. So two questions;
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Update - I’ve been playing around with Tasks in Workspace and have managed to get tasks into calendar on a laptop but not on the phone. So if anyone knows how to sync the tasks in calendar view onto a mobile that would be great! Also I can not find an option to set tasks as continuous/recurring rather than one task at a time. Even if you are aware it is not possible, it would be great to get that answer, as currently I’m continuing to search, and I may just have to find a new way of working. Suggestions welcome (I have daily tasks I tick off as I do them usually in Google that I view in one place - Calendar along with events). Thanks
the static “Tasks” calendar object in Google doesn’t have an .ics / ical export url as regular calendars have (the option in the dropdown is missing compared to other regular calendars).
That’d be the method to extract the tasks. On a whim I can’t find a maintained programmatic api client for Google Tasks to convert the json to ical / vevent objects to put it somewhere to act as relay.
Thank you for your response. I understand the first part (the way I transferred events isn’t possible with tasks). The second part I am seeking clarity. You can not see a way that is able to export the tasks to my new calendar?
usually you can find some (python often) project that you can host on a vps or locally that does the transformation (for tasks, json → ical) continually if it’s not a one-time thing. The one’s I found did only part of the whole cycle (the transform from a file - but not the online fetch/crawl to a file). Google has Takeout, you could try to find a project that tries to extract from that route.
As to recurring events - Etar / the default Calendar app can set them up and sync to a caldav backend, as what’s the common case for /e/ phones. For caldav, tasks is a regular calendar with a different representation.
What is general plan, continue to use Google services or do a one-time extract and migrate away?
Technology and especially terminology are not my strong point, so apologies, I am trying to understand. I don’t know what Take out is.
My aim is to stop using Google. Ideally export the whole calendar and tasks. I have successfully exported the calendar, and I was just looking to do the same with the tasks.
Anything new I am putting into my Murena Calendar, so the export would be a one time thing. Failing that I will have to go through my Google Calendar and rewrite all the tasks into Murena.
The second part of that is I can only view tasks as a list and separate app on my Fairphone, as opposed to having the view of them in my calendar as is possible with Google.
this is Google Takeout - it will give you your Tasks as json, and then there’s a few projects (example: 1 or 2) that transform that to .ics / iCalendar - what Apple and /e/OS uses
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