Greasemonkey Script – Integrate Gmail and Google Calendar

Posted on January 7, 2008 at 6:36 am

Earlier I had written about twenty-five Greasemonkey scripts that I found were essential for any avid Firefox user and now there’s another one that definitely needs to be added to the list: Enhance Gmail. This is a cool script!

Recently, I integrated Remember the Milk into Gmail using the Firefox addon and absolutely love it. Now I can check my email and review my current list of tasks at the same time. Very useful and definitely increased my productivity.

However, one thing that still lacked was the fact that I had to keep running to Google Calendar to view all my upcoming tasks and deadlines because Gmail doesn’t have any such feature. And it was worse after integrating Remember the Milk because that’s all about dates and times!

Rest easy though because you can now integrate your Google Calendar directly into Gmail! Once installed, you’ll see two new options at the top left of the page: Chat and Calendar.

Clicking on the Calendar link at the top splits the screen vertically showing your Calendar on the right hand side:

By default, Google Talk is integrated into Gmail already and you can chat with friends, but this script makes the interface look a little nicer and integrates the chatting into the current window rather than a popup.

If you’re not really happy with the screen being split vertically live above, you can change the script so that the calendar shows up on the bottom half of your screen rather than the right. Edit the script and change the line below:

const OPEN_CAL_BELOW_MAIL=0;

const OPEN_CAL_BELOW_MAIL=1;

You can edit a Greasemonkey script by going to Tools from the Firefox menu, then Greasemonkey and then clicking on Manage User Scripts.

Click on the Enhance Gmail script on the left side and then click the Edit button below. Find the line above using the Find command and replace the 0 with a 1.

Overall, this is cool if you already want to have all of your Google services integrated into one nice dashboard type of application. There are a bunch of other scripts that either enhance Gmail or add to it, so post a comment on which ones you like to use! Enjoy! Source LifeHacker

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