Sharing Google calendar

stevem999

Hi everyone, would appreciate your thoughts. I have a Galaxy S2 and my wife uses an iphone. We need to synchronise our calendars.

I currently use a Google Calendar which I synchronise my phone with (and also an Outlook calendar).
I wonder if the simplest method is just to share access to my Google calendar with my wife which I assume would mean she gets my appointments, and I get hers?

However I wonder if it is neater to set her up with her own Google calendar and she syncs with that from her phone and then we share each others?

Would appreciate thoughts on whether that just overcomplicates matters and means another step in the synchronisation.

Lastly, I'm guessing that I don't want any alerts/reminders from her Google calendar sounding on my phone, and I know for certain she won't want all mine, so is there a way (or setting) to just have the appointments appear in each others diaries but not any of the reminders/alerts from the other person?
Many thanks

Im_just_careful

Where is your wife's current calendar held ?

iPhones can display Google Calendar (this is surprisingly easy to set up) and make appointments in Google Calendars.

You can share Google Calendars as read only to someone else (I don't know whether the alarms can be set on an individual Calendar basis) but I think this approach is the most likely to work.

The Outlook Calendar (assume it is held on a Microsoft Exchange server somewhere) would display separately to the Google Calendar on the iPhone.