Share • LinkedIn • Facebook • Twitter 2 Do you use Google Calendar for your private appointments and Microsoft Outlook to organize the chaos of your work life? If you do, this is for you.

If you don't, well, it might be too. Consider this could be a great Xmas gift for your loved one, next of kin, best friend or neighbor. Remember, you gotta keep something up your sleeve for the good deeds that get you into Santa's nice list!

Outlook email for mac. • Now make sure Never is selected under Delete copies from the server.

How to enable Google Calendar sync in Outlook 2016 for Mac. The synchronization between Google Calendar and Outlook actually happens by connecting your Google account to Microsoft Cloud.

Let's start by putting some personal background. Up until recently, I was employed in a classic company and had a classic office time.

Everything was nice and tidy. All my professional appointments happened from 9 to 6. All my personal stuff happened outside those hours.

The few exceptions were saved as private appointments in my Outlook calendar. I barely used my Google Calendar. I then became self employed and created my own company, and this brought a small but fundamental change. You have no working and personal time. Everything is working and personal time, all together. So I needed something that would let me see my whole, private and professional schedule for a particular day to decide whether I could attend that conference or have that business lunch or dinner. The solution could be as simple as using my Outlook calendar for everything, but 1) I didn't want to mix things up and 2) isolating things has some additional benefits.

By 'isolating' I mean effectively using Outlook for professional appointments and Google Calendar for private ones so that things stay organized, and getting a couple of additional Easter eggs in the process such as: • If you have a shared Google calendar with someone else (e.g. Your spouse), and he/she creates or changes appointments in that calendar, changes are automagically propagated to all your views, including Outlook!

• Use the integration between Google Calendar and Google Maps to get directions to your Outlook appointments right from Google Calendar. • Get notifications for your upcoming Outlook appointments from Google Now including live traffic conditions, etc. It's simpler that it seems, and at least for me it's more than useful. When setting up an appointment I have full visibility of my complete schedule and I know at a glance whether I can make it or not. This avoids many of those ' oh, crap' moments when you realize you just set up a work appointment that you need to change (sounds familiar?). Alright, let's get down to business.

The goal is to end up having a full view of all your calendars both in Outlook and Google Calendar, so that you can record any kind of appointment with confidence using any of your multiple devices. Visually, things will end up looking like this: Outlook. Different colors denote different calendars, both in Outlook and Google Calendar.

You have a single, consistent, full view of your time, no matter whether you're looking at it through Outlook or the Google Calendar app on your mobile, tablet or desktop. So now, the million dollar question.