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CalDAV support comes to Google Calendar

July 28th, 2008

CalDAV support comes to Google Calendar: Well, fortunately, Google has just quietly introduced CalDAV support to Google Calendar. CalDAV is the protocol that iCal uses to transmit data over the web. Although some other mail and calendar programs support CalDAV, right now Google Calendar is only compatible with iCal. Finally, iCal and Google Calendar can sync without having to use third party programs!

(Via TUAW.)

Leah M @ Newsvine just recently posted about CalGoo going free, and I would highly recommend using it first to push your existing iCal updates to gCal. This is what I did:

Set up calendars on gCal matching my existing iCal structure (which is: Home, Personal, School, Work).

Set up CalGoo to create a separate link from each iCal calendar to the matching gCal calendar.

Sync gCal with iCal.

Add gCal calendars to iCal using the instructions linked from the TUAW post.

Double-check for missing entries.

Delete the local copies of the iCal calendars.

That should be it. You should now be able to make entries or edits in either iCal or gCal and have updates show up in both places (within 15 minutes). Since CalGoo is only needed one time, you can freely remove CalGoo at this point, as well.