Outlook Meeting reminders as SMS to Mobile; Never miss that meeting again.

Missing meetings because You are at home or out from system..Never Miss that Damn meeting again. Here is the solution. Sync your Outlook calendar to Google calendar and that's it ;you will get Meeting notification before the meeting as an SMS. Whats more You are never gonna miss any important meeting. Follow these Simple Steps.


We will set up Google calendar to send reminder SMS for the meetings which are synced to Google calendar from Outlook's calendar.

As a First Step , sign in to Google calendar at https://www.google.com/calendar using your gmail account. Go to settings=>mobile_setup and setup and activate your mobile number.
Download and install Google calendar sync from here . You can read more about the sync app here . Sign into this application using the same Google account which you used to sign-in to Google calendar. Select the type of sync to be performed and the interval of sync.

Now comes a bit tricky part. Google doesn't enable SMS notifications by default for events synced from Outlook. So, we will have to make Google do it! (through scripting). Open a new spreadsheet in Google Docs ( google.com/docs). In the spreadsheet's menu, go to tools=>script_editor . Paste the code:
‘ -------------------------------------------------Script to be added

function SmsReminders() {

var today = new Date();
var Calendar = CalendarApp.getDefaultCalendar();
var events = Calendar.getEventsForDay(today);

for (var i = 0; i<10; i++) {
   events[i].addSmsReminder(30);
}

}

‘--------------------------------------------------Script to be added
Now save the script.
Click "Triggers"  on the same window > Current Script trigger's > Add  a trigger. Set it "Time-driven | Hours timer | Every 1 Hour > Save.
Note: This will run the script every 1 hour and the script would add SMS reminder to all the events it sees in the Google calendar, to be sent 30 mins before the event.
Save the Script and now the script editor window can be closed.
Save the spreadsheet.

You are done! To summarise, we synced our outlook events to google calendar and since google doesn't send SMS reminder for synced events by default, we enabled it though a script. All actions must be performed through the same google account!

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