Want to INTEGRATE your Google Calendar WITHOUT creating events in TickTick? Here's how.
These directions assume this:
- You want your Google calendar events to show up in your TickTick calendar WITHOUT creating any TickTick events for them, AND
- you want your TickTick scheduled tasks to appear on your Google Calendar.
- If you already have your Google calendar integrated or subscribed in TickTick, remove those connections to start clean.
- Go to your Google Calendar ON THE WEB and create a NEW CALENDAR called TickTick. Do this by clicking the plus sign (+) next to "Other calendars" in the left-hand column. It will be a new calendar in addition to your regular calendar, and it will be owned by you.
- In TickTick (I use the TickTick PC application), go into your Settings and click on Integrations & Import. Click on Google Calendar, then choose "Subscribe from Google Calendar," then authenticate with Google and CHOOSE YOUR PERSONAL CALENDAR (not the TickTick calendar).
- Once step 3 above is done, test it to make sure you now see the Google Calendar events in your TickTick calendar, and make sure it did NOT create any tasks for them in TickTick.
- Next, in TickTick go into your Settings again and click on Integrations & Import. Click on Google Calendar, and this time choose "Integration with Google" but this time be sure to only choose the Google TickTick calendar you created. That will synchronize your TickTick calendar to the Google calendar called "TickTick."
- In your Google calendar view, be sure to turn on viewing your Google calendar and the "TickTick" calendar you created so you see both calendars superimposed on your calendar.
- Now schedule one of your tasks in TickTick onto the TickTick calendar. That should sync it to Google and make it appear on your integrated Google/TickTick calendar view. Note that there may be a delay for that connection, so be patient.
If all went well, in TickTick you should see your Google and TickTick scheduled items, and the same thing your Google calendar. If you use any Google calendar apps like EM Client, you'll just need to turn on viewing the TickTick calendar there too.
Hope all that makes sense. Obviously this is a kludgy workaround.