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Kiko Hacks

2 years ago

I'm sure you all look forward to the day when O'Reilly releases a book entitled Kiko Hacks and sells it in bookstores across the country (or at least we do). If you're not familiar with this sense of the term "hacks" don't worry, just check out O'Reilly's justly famous book Google Hacks which explains how to get the most out of the famous search engine. In the meantime, however, here are a couple of "hacks" for Kiko which you will hopefully find useful.

Add events to your calendar automatically, like national or religious holidays, or sporting events.
  1. Click on the "manage feeds" button in the left sidebar, then "add feed"
  2. Open another tab or window, and browse to iCal Share, then search for your country's holidays, religious holidays, academic calendars for your university, sporting events, or whatever you're looking for.
  3. Right click on "subscribe" and choose "copy link location"
  4. Go back to the tab or window that holds your Kiko calendar, and paste the link into the "feed url" box. Then give the feed an identifying name, e.g. "RedSox games" or "National Holidays". Click save.
  5. Repeat as desired. When you go back to your calendar view, after the feed finishes downloading (visible by the spinning icon next to its name), the events from that feed will appear in your calendar. You can toggle visibility by clicking the feed's name or assign them colors, just like labels.

View your desktop iCal calendar from Kiko when you're on the road.
  1. Publish your calendar from iCal to the iCal Exchange
  2. Add the feed to your Kiko calendar as described above

View your Kiko calendar on your Google, Yahoo!, or Netvibes personalized homepage
  1. Click on the "sharing" tab from within Kiko, then on "RSS Feeds"
  2. Right click on the upper right orange icon (for all upcoming appointments), and choose "copy link location"
  3. Navigate to the start page of your choice (Google, Yahoo, etc), choose "add new content" then choose the "RSS feed" option if one is available. Paste the Kiko RSS feed URL into the box.
  4. Choose how many elements you want to be displayed (the number of upcoming appointments you will see). Then hit save and you should see your upcoming appointments appear on your startpage.

Import a calendar from Yahoo! or Outlook to Kiko
  1. Export your calendar to CSV format. If you're unsure how to do that, check out Emmett's directions with screenshots
  2. Use the CSV to iCal converter
  3. Click the "import" link in the upper black bar of Kiko, and upload your iCal file

Get reminders for appointments via email, AIM, or on your mobile phone
  1. Click the "profile" link in the upper black bar in Kiko
  2. Add your contact method and hit "validate"
  3. Go to the validation link which arrives in your email, AIM client, or mobile phone
  4. In the right side of the "profile" tab, choose the medium in which you would like to be reminded of your appointments
  5. When you create an appointment, click the "reminder" button on the right-hand side of the appointment tab, and choose the number of minutes before the appointment at which you would like to be reminded. You may enter values up to several days worth of minutes
  6. Recieve your reminder on your device of choice at the time you specified!

Send visitors to a particular view (month, week, day, or upcoming) of your public calendar
  1. Go to the sharing tab of your calendar while logged in, right click on the public URL icon, and select "copy"
  2. Paste the URL into the email or webpage where you'll be announcing your calendar
  3. At the end of that URL, add "?view=#". Replace the # symbol with 0 for week view, 1 for month view, 2 for day view and 3 for upcoming view
  4. Visitors to your public calendar will see the view you desire

That's all for now, but I will add to this list as the number of Kiko features grows.

Ryan

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