todo's not showing up in ical

Hi Bob and Eric,

I did this myself quite a few times thinking I was flagging it for myself to go back and read before I realized just what it was doing. Perhaps something more explicit like "Flag as inappropriate"?

—R

Good to hear, Eric!

Hi Bob,

I have no idea why you are a cupcake ;-)

--R

Hi Bob,

(Couldn't resist the cupcake thing ;-)

Seriously though, I didn't respond because I was tucking into the issue before doing so.

I have spent the past hour trying to figure out just why to-do items aren't showing up in iCal for me either. They are absolutely included in the ics feed and have been since day one and showed just fine before I upgraded to Leopard.

Leopard iCal has caused untold issues, including errors refreshing subscribes calendars protected by username and password, no calendars showing at all (even my local ones) ever so often when I open iCal, and now the disappearance of to-do items. I even went and subscribed to other (non-Sandy) iCal feeds with to-do items and found that they didn't show until the 3rd refresh -- and one of those feeds wasn't even password protected, so that seems to have little to do with it.

Are you on OS X Leopard?

We will continue working on this and get it solved, I assure you.

—R

As for why they show as events, this is in keeping with your original supposition: I've always been amazed that most calendars don't show your scheduled to-dos as appointments, relegating them to a little to-dos-only gated community off to the side (c.f. Outlook).

The secondary reason we include to-dos amongst the appointments is that some calendars -- Google Calendar, for instance -- don't provide a space for to-do items at all, leaving you to fend for yourself to find yet another service to keep your to-do list for you.

As I wrote in one of our updates [http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...]:

"Not since the days before the Appointment/To-do Accord of 1790 have To-dos and Appointments lived in such harmony. No more are your To-dos relegated to a sliver of real-estate off to the side of your calendar (let alone shuffled off to yet some gated to-do-only community.)"

—Rael

I tried a couple of other online services and a local feed too. It is just downright flakey.

Not that I am laying the blame for anything on our side on Apple, mind you. There is more than enough not to like about iCal ;-)

But we are working on it on our end.

-R

I hear you and will consider some options.

(Another data point on this front is the iPhone not having to-dos.)

But we will start by just getting the to-dos showing up as to-dos first so you (and I and others) can get to done.

Hi Bob,

Just to be clear: we don't put to-dos on your calendar unless they're actually scheduled for a particular date/time. Otherwise, they hang out in the to-do bungalow off to the side along with the other to-dos.

—R