Slightly OT-Moving appointments from email to calendar

Posted by jamesofford
Mar 20, 2015 at 01:07 PM

Good morning everyone:

I realize that this is slightly off topic, but this is the best group I could think of to ask the question, so here it is.

Is there a good way to move meetings from email to calendar on a Mac? As background-I spent a long time in industry. Initially we had no email, but eventually we were using Exchange with Outlook clients(PC centered place.) I know the reputation that Outlook has, but there were many things about it that I liked. One was the ability to schedule things. Emails that were sent often had meeting requests, and Outlook dealt with them conveniently and easily. No muss, no fuss. Secondly, my calendar was in Outlook. I managed my calendar in Outlook and never had a problem. We also had Outlook Web Access, but I never used that.

Now I am on a Mac, and in an environment where everyone has different email clients, though the University provides Gmail as the underpinnings.

My question is: How do I set things up so that I can conveniently add meeting requests to my calendar, and trust that the appropriate things are scheduled at the appropriate time? I had a conflict earlier this week, and since my software didn’t notice this, I went to one meeting, but not the other one. Not a big deal this time, but it is irritating.

Is Outlook on the Mac a good choice? I have the option of continuing to use Gmail, or switching over to an Exchange based system. However, if other people aren’t using Exchange, then I am going to be having the same problem.

This is one of those modern problems that I never anticipated when I was younger.

Jim