Exporting and Importing is useful for backing up your reminders as well as sharing them with other profiles, computers, or calendar services. Only iCalendar (ics) files are supported for importing and exporting.
You can import or export Reminders and ToDo's via the ReminderFox Options dialog. When importing reminders, you can either overwrite your current existing reminders, or add the imported reminders to your existing list of reminders (sort of like
merging). This allows for you to import common shared lists of reminders for multiple people who share a pool of reminders such as family members (birthdays, etc).
See details: Configure your Reminderfox --> General
You can share reminders with most any Calendar program that supports the iCalendar/iCal format.
Most calendar programs allow you to import files to get your calendar data from one
program to another.
Thunderbird/Lightning Calendar
ReminderFox and Lightning/Thunderbird can be configured so both show the actual calendar.
For this with Lightning a calendar has to be defined with ICS data file storage. That file location will be used with ReminderFox also, see
Options --> General
Google Calendar
See the
Remote Calendars for full details.
Sharing reminders with other computers via the network
You can share your reminders via the network. You can easily share reminders with other instances of ReminderFox - for example, to use the same list of reminders between your computers at work and at home.
Note: Starting with version 2.1, a new Remote Calendars feature has been added, allowing you to synchronize your reminders with providers like Google Calendar and fruux. See the Remote Calendars
for full details.
Synchronization with FTP or WebDAV (HTTP/HTTPS) server
You can use any FTP or WebDAV (HTTP/HTTPS) server to store your reminders.
If you do not have any servers available for sharing, there are a number of
freely available services, such as iCal Exchange (icalx.com).
Select the protocol from the drop down (http/https/fttp) and then enter in
your address in the address text field. Make sure that your address
ends in a filename. Enter in your username and password needed to access
your server (if required). You can then press Import to download
your events from the remote server, or Export to upload your
reminders to the remote server.
Automatic Synchronization with FTP or WebDAV (HTTP/HTTPS) server
If you enable the Automatic Synchronize Reminders With Network option,
your local reminders and ToDo's will automatically be kept in synch
with your remote reminders.
Whenever you make any changes to your reminder list, your reminders
will automatically be uploaded to your remote server. And when any
changes are made to the remote reminders, they will automatically be
downloaded to your local machine. Your
remote reminders are checked to see if there are new changes
whenever you view your list of reminders as well as when your
start ReminderFox and once an hour after that.
Problems with network synchronization
Make sure your address is written properly (http:// or ftp:// should
not be part of the text of your address - they are
selected in the drop-down box before the address). Make sure that your
address ends with a filename
(example: reminders.ics). Also, some servers do not accept
files with certain extensions (like .ics), so try changing your
filename to end in another extension (example: reminders.txt).
Also, make sure that you can access your server via FTP
or HTTP outside of ReminderFox to ensure that the server is
properly accepting requests in normal circumstances. Also if the address
you are synchronizing to is another calendar service, you should make
sure that they support downloading and
uploading from other calendar programs.
Sync with PDAs and SmartPhones
With the use of a Remote Calendar system it's possible. see also
Remote Calendars
Sharing Reminders