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169  - CREATE A TO-DO LIST IN GOOGLE CALENDAR

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You might nd a calendar application the right place to maintain

your to-do lists.

If you need a very simple to-do list, there’s a Google gadget that you can add to your iGoogle home

page. Just go to http://igoogle.com, click “Add stuff” to the right, search for “todo” (see Chapter 6),

and pick the To-Do List gadget that was created by Google.

Alternatively, to integrate a to-do list with your calendar, complete with due dates and other details,

you could add events as usual in Google Calendar and use them as your to-do items. But there are a

couple of other tools you can use to enhance Google Calendar with a real to-do list.

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One way to add a real to-do list to Calendar is with the Google Calendar TODOlist Greasemonkey

script. To run this script, you need to be using the Firefox browser, with Greasemonkey installed

. Once installed, point your browser to http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9179 and click

the “Install this script” button. After the installation is complete—make sure that the Greasemonkey

icon in your browser bar at the bottom is smiling and showing in full color (and not frowning in

shades of gray), indicating that it is enabled—log in to Google Calendar.

You will now nd a new to-do list widget to the left side ...