Synchronizing our Smart apps with the ‘rest of the world’

Many people  have asked us “How can I connect my Outlook calendars to your apps?”  or “I’ve got my task list on another app, how do I get it to SmartPad?” With the upcoming public beta release of mySmartDay.com, you will be able to view your tasks and events – integrated directly into the calendar using our SmartTime™ logic (patent pending) – on any Mac, PC, iPad or iPhone.  But if you still choose to use other sources because of business or family connections, read on.

We work with the ‘lowest common denominator‘ so our apps can integrate with the widest number of other apps, with the lowest number of problems. Because Apple does a great job of connecting their calendars with the ‘outside world,’ we generally use their device calendars (‘Calendar’ on the iPhone and iPad, and ‘iCal’ on the Mac). We also use Toodledo for tasks, because they have many connections to other task list apps.

SmartPad synchronizes calendar events with the iPad calendar. So any other calendars that you can connect to your iPad calendar – such as Google, Exchange, Outlook, iCloud – can then be viewed in SmartPad.

SmartPad also synchronizes tasks with Toodledo, the free online task list. So tasks from any other third party task list that you can connect to Toodledo (including Outlook), can then be viewed in SmartPad.

SmartDay Mac will synchronize both calendar events, and Apple’s new ‘Reminders,’ with iCal on your Mac. So any calendar events or reminders that you can connect to iCal, will then be sync’d to SmartDay Mac.

mySmartDay.com is a fully functional web-based organizer and also our cloud hub. It syncs tasks, events, calendar categories and colors, and task list sort orders and priorities, with both SmartPad and SmartDay Mac. It is free to anyone who owns SmartPad, SmartNotes, or SmartDay Mac. It does not run on the safari browsers in iOS devices.

mySmartDay.com does not sync with any outside sources but as mentioned above, if you bring in any external calendars or task lists via iCal -> SmartDay Mac or iPad Calendar / Toodledo -> SmartPad, then those will be distributed by mySmartDay.com to your other connected Smart apps.

SmartPlans has a different feature-set than SmartPad and SmartDay; it is a multi-project planner. However, you can export Project details as read-only to your device calendar so those can then be viewed in SmartPad and, from there, connected to mySmartDay.com and SmartDay Mac in the way described above.