Looking for PC Calendar program that syncs with Android phone Calendar app

[HealingHands33]

Hi,

I'm new to Android phones (4 days) and this forum, so please forgive any questions which may seem to have obvious answers to more experienced users.

For years I've used a Palm T|X which has a desktop program that allows me to quickly enter new appointments or to-do items, change them easily, and search them quickly when I'm at my desk, as I often am. Then I sync it with my Palm, and presto, I'm up-to-date, as any changes I've made on either the Palm Desktop program or the Palm itself are then registered on both devices, which is what I need.

However the Palm is at (or more correctly, far beyond) the end of its useful life, so I've just acquired a Samsung Galaxy S2 running ICS 4.0.3, for which I'm trying to find a desktop calendar program that will sync easily and well with some sort of Android calendar app. I use this calendar primarily for business, so I need to be able to not only enter the event name/description, but also in many cases a bunch of notes attached to the event, and I need the ability to set very precise event times and duration, as well as to be able to repeat an event at certain regular intervals. Ideally, the calendar program/app should allow me to see day, week, month, and year views. I use Firefox and Thunderbird, so I was wondering about the Mozilla Lightning Calendar for TB, but I don't know enough about it or how/if it would sync with some sort of Android calendar app. As an additional consideration, it would be SUPERB if I could somehow get my current Palm Desktop calendar events to be synced or loaded into the new desktop program, thus saving me hours of work.

I don't use MS Outlook or any other MS Office programs, so syncing with Outlook through Samsung Kies isn't possible for me. As to Google Calendar, I really don't trust Google products, as Google has a terrible reputation for intensely tracking users of any of its products and I value my privacy.

I don't currently have a PC calendar program to work with other than Palm Desktop, which is so old that I have to run it in XP Mode under Windows 7. As a result, I think (someone please correct me if I'm wrong here) I need to find a new desktop calendar program, then choose an Android calendar app that can be synced with it by some means (or vice versa).

Any and all help appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[jefboyardee]

I went through the same withdrawals when I dumped my Palm ‘smartphone’ and got a droid. It took me a while to get used to it, but I now just use the Google websites for the calendar, contacts and gmail. I poked around for a standalone app to replicate my Palm bliss, then said the h*ll with it.

 

[dvhttn]

Use MyPhoneExplorer to sync your Thunderbird desktop stuff with Android. Search on here for plenty of hits. Forums at ... FJ Software :: Forum anzeigen - English section ... Home page at .... FJ Software Development ....

There is a PC client plus an app on your phone. I use it to sync with Outlook (as I have office anyway) for contacts, calendar, tasks and notes.

The calendar syncs with the Android calendar "database" so you can use any Android calendar that reads this - I use Business Calendar for example.

HTH

Dave

 

[korrupTed]

With android, as long as the files are eventually synced with Google calendar, it will work. Google calendar syncs to your phone by default. I have tried outlook and that worked for me for a while, but now I prefer managing the calender in the 'cloud'