ADHD and the FierceFamily

I know Jamama thinks she’s the only one for whom the perfect calendar is some sort of holy grail.  Not so!  I too am constantly looking for a calendar that will seamlessly address the following needs:

1. Free (or incredibly cheap)
2. Supports multiple calendars (Tim, Family, Work, etc.)
3. Calendar stored locally
4. Syncs with Windows Mobile Handheld
5. Syncs with Google Calendar
6. Supports category synchronization between local, Google, and Handheld

The closest I’ve managed to come is Sunbird - from Mozilla the makers of the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird email client.  It’s what I’m using right now, but it fails on two items in the list above.

1. While it is able to sync with both my handheld and Google calendar (using third party plugins) it erases my categories.
2. The calendar is not actually stored locally.

GCalDaemon is the application that allows me to set the location of my .ics file (open source calendar file) to point at my Google calendar.  The drawback is that there is no local calendar and if the GCalDaemon is not running, or I have no internet connection, my calendar will be empty.  The other plugin I use is called BirdieSync, which allows Sunbird to sinc with a variety of handheld devices.  It works great but costs $20.

At work I use Microsoft Outlook because that’s just the way it is.  While I am really quite pleased with the newest version (2007), it won’t sync with my Google calendar.  Plus, it is neither free nor cheap.  Thats said, there is a fairly decent way to sync Outlook with a Google calendar.

The search continues.  Anyone out there have any great ideas?

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