Zoho Gadgets connects you to iGoogle, Facebook, Orkut, Gmail etc

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Zoho Gadgets launches today with the aim to connect Zoho applications with external applications. Zoho Gadgets, available at http://gadgets.zoho.com, can be integrated/embedded with online applications like iGoogle, Facebook, Orkut, Gmail & more. To start with, we are offering six Zoho gadgets.

  • Zoho Docs (Including Writer, Sheet & Show)
  • Zoho Mail
  • Zoho Calendar
  • Zoho Tasks
  • Zoho Contacts and
  • Zoho Planner
Zoho Gadgets

All the gadgets are OpenSocial compatible – this means you can now use these gadgets in any OpenSocial compatible social network. We plan to provide gadgets for other Zoho Applications moving forward.

These gadgets can be embedded individually in any websites or can be added to iGoogle or any personal dashboard.

Gadgets for iGoogle
You can now add all Zoho Gadgets to your start page. To add Zoho Gadgets to iGoogle, just click on the iGoogle link in Gadgets page and add these gadgets for them to appear in your iGoogle page.…


How Zoho Planner's Reminders Help Me

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The below screenshot of the My Reminders page in my Zoho Planner account should give you an idea of how Zoho Planner helps me out with my regular activities.

To explain it a bit, all the above are recurring reminders. Zoho Planner allows you to set a reminder to repeat in various time frames. I use the weekly, monthly & yearly options. For example, I clean our window air conditioner’s filter & vacuum clean our home’s ceilings every weekend.

Monthly jobs include sending the rent check to our landlord, paying electricity & phone bills, submitting the medical & telephone bills to our office for reimbursement and making the monthly credit card payment.

February & March are the months in India where salaried employees collect and submit the various tax exemption proofs to the finance department of the companies they work.…


Prioritizing your To-Dos using Zoho Planner

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Many of you Zoho users might be using Zoho Planner to keep a note of your to-dos. Let’s see how to go about from scratch creating to-do lists.

First would be to translate all those things to be done that you have on your mind as a list of to-dos in Zoho Planner. Here’s what mine looks like.

To better organize the above list, let me move the personal to-dos out to another list.

Let’s now put the more immediate to-dos first.

And to give extra importance to the must-do items, let’s mark them in bold (Zoho Planner allows text to be formatted).

And the last item in the list is one which would require more than one day of work. Let’s put a due date and set a reminder so that you don’t lose track of it.

There, hope you like it better now :) As you can see, you can prioritize your to-dos in various ways using Zoho Planner.

  • Have separate lists for official and personal tasks
  • Re-order the list so that the urgent ones are at the top
  • Mark the important to-dos in bold
  • Set due dates and reminders for tasks that take more than one day to complete

Do you have any tips of how to organize to-dos?


Zoho Planner : Scheduled Maintenance on Dec 8, 2007

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Zoho Planner is undergoing an infrastructure upgrade on Saturday, December 8, 2007 between 17:30 PST and 22:30 PST (5 hours). During this time, access to your Zoho Planner accounts will not be available and the reminder emails will be delayed. We apologize for any inconvenience that this might cause.


Zoho Planner & Matthew Moran at ITtoolbox

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Matthew Moran at ITTtoolbox finds Zoho Planner so useful that he first had a blog post titled, “The Joy of ZOHO Planner – shared todo lists, tasks, and collaboration…“. He then followed it up with a cool video showing how he uses Zoho Planner. From his post,

I have also been playing around a lot with ZOHO’s suite of applications. I’ll be covering these in more detail over the next few weeks. Suffice to say, their documents are more full-featured and have a better interface than google – hands down.


Zoho Planner allows us [Matt & his wife Laura] to have our own tasks page or pages. We can then share a page or pages of tasks with someone else – giving them read only or read/write access to the page.

I setup a page called Laura’s Shared Tasks and one called Matt’s Shared Tasks.


Chat with your shared users in Zoho Planner

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With the latest Zoho Planner update, you can now chat to each of your shared users. On clicking a page you can see the list of shared users with status (either online/offline). Now you can chat with the person who is available for chat.

Zoho Planner chat for shared users

We have also added RSS feeds for your shared pages. You can find this feature in your planner settings page. Subscribe to the RSS feeds and get notified on the changes done by the shared users in your page.

Do give a try and send your feedbacks to feedback at zohoplanner dot com.


REST API for Zoho Planner

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We recently announced the availability of REST APIs for Zoho Writer, Sheet and Show. Today, we have added REST API for Zoho Planner as well. The functionality & working of this API is similar to those of Writer/Sheet/Show. The Zoho Planner API allows you to get, create, update ToDo lists and do a lot more as well, all from inside your web application. Check out the new Zoho Planner API. If you need help in building a mashup using our API, do write to us at feedback(at)zohoplanner.com.