Fitting the battle of life

Now that Evolution has (or at least, now I’m aware that it has) support for syncing with your google calendar, I’ve found (quite without looking) a handy way of adding events to your calendar via twitter.

By following gcal on twitter, and authorising twittercal to access your google account, you can send gcal a direct message to add events (e.g. “d gcal Birthday party tomorrow at 9pm”).

I’ve not found any privacy concerns on my (limited) googling yet, so it looks to be secure, unlike the G-Archiver app that surfaced a while ago – but of course, it’s up to you to trust it or not. (To be honest, I haven’t yet decided – just thought I’d put this tip out there for whoever might be interested.) There seem to be over 3,000 people following gcal on twitter at the moment. Once I’ve set it up I’ll report back.

(Setting up Evolution with your google calendar is as easy as File->New->Calendar, selectiong ‘Google’ from the drop-down box and filling in the relevant information.)

Update: I’ve now tried this, and 15mins later still no appearance of the events I was trying to create. Score -2 so far, not looking good for twittercal.