I read David Allen’s Getting Things Done several years ago and attended a GtD training where I worked. It was amazing. I’m still striving to implement the things I learned there. This week, I discovered a new chapter in the GtD saga. Inbox Zero. I won’t confess here all the “oops, I do that and I know it’s really useless, but I still do it” moments I had while watching Mann the Man’s presentation. Awesome. Now I have more things to target.

YAY! Hats of to Zindus addon for Thunderbird. A few posts ago I touted the wonder of the Provider addon for Thunderbird which allowed you to sync a Google calendar with Thunderbird/Lightning. The only remaining missing piece of my Google app hosted personal email and Thunderbird/Lightning was my contacts. Thanks to Zindus now I have that also.

It was simple to install and after some deleting of what were considered duplicate emails during my first manual sync I now have a completely synced local address book and online address book through my webmail. YAY!

Final piece to attaining the holy grail and being 100% synced up will be when I can sync my iPhone to my Google app hosted domain/email/calendar. When oh when?

The holy grail (for me at this point anyways) for calendars has finally been solved. Hats off to Philipp Kewisch for his Provider Addon for Thunderbird/Lightning! And super hats off to bfish.xaedalus.net for the step by step instructions for enabling it. After over two years of wishing I had a way to sync my Google Calendar and my Thunderbird Lightning calendar I finally have it. Installed, tested, and working! Bravo!

Now, at my desk I can manage my calendar using Thunderbird and away I can use my iPhone to update my Google Calendar and the two stay in sync. YAY! Today’s tech post checked off… now off to be productive.