Posts Tagged ‘calendar’

12 Hours to Better Time Management

Work. Kids. School. Sports. Second job. Partner’s job. The next great American novel. Your knitting circle. Remodeling the guest bathroom. Taking your car in for its 30,000 mile tune-up. An on and on and on — it seems like we have things to do in abundance. What we don’t ever seem to have enough of is time.

I think we all know what we should do, but the prospect… » Continue

February 20 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: calendar, password, schedule, time, time-management, tool, web-app | 36 comments»

Prefer Paper Planners? 3 Best Calendars You’ve Never Heard Of

Professional Organizers are often called upon to help our clients choose the calendar that is best for their needs. Many times, even though people are very digitally-oriented in their work, they still prefer having a paper calendar. Paper planners provide the benefit of immediate gratification—there is no waiting to boot up or fumble around with “toothpick typing.” You can just write something in and keep going… » Continue

May 2 2007 | By Lorie | Tagged: calendar, planner, planning, scheduling | 10 comments»

Text File Strip Calendar

David Seah created another excellent organizer. This time it is a very small and compact calendar using only text that he calls the Text File Strip Calendar. David explains how he made it and what purpose it serves.

Sometimes it’s handy to be able to quickly make a calendar in your text document for reference. They’re easy to make because you can copy/paste the ..mtwrf characters… » Continue

April 4 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: calendar, Productivity, Technology | 1 comment»

HiTask is My New Favorite Organizer

I have been between organizing systems for a little while. I’ve tried a bunch of things: Google Calendar, Stickies (the built in Mac program that makes little Post-It notes), and a few easily forgettable PIM software apps. I’ve used Backpack in the past, and a few of the various To-Do software products that so many readers of Lifehack.org write or support.

But my new favorite is HiTask.

First, it’s clean and… » Continue

March 31 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: calendar, gtd, hitask, schedule, software, web2.0 | 16 comments»

Add some sparks to Online Calendar App: Google Calendar

Just between you and me, except the online calendar sharing feature, Google Calendar is a very traditional calendar software. It’s just a prove to say Google can develop a calendar software in a web based platform.

Anne Zelenka at Web Worker Daily proves otherwise. She suggests 18 ways to make it rock:

Add holidays, moon phases, sporting events, and other public calendars.
Customize your view.
See where you are right now on your

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March 23 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: calendar, google, online, planner, software, tool | 2 comments»

Dumbest Hack Ever- Use Your Calendar

Ever since switching tasks and to-dos off of my calendar and into a GTD tool of choice, I’ve noticed my productivity is actually going DOWN. Why? Because I’ve learned that without at least SOME scheduling, I don’t match the right contexts to the tasks still at hand.

Scheduling Context Zones

Now, maybe GTD the book has this in there, and I’ve forgotten it over time. Remember, I’m more a disciple… » Continue

March 14 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: 7habits, calendar, chrisbrogan, covey, gtd, planning, schedule | 7 comments»

Post It Note Calendar

For whatever reason I have never been one to keep a calendar on my wall. If they’re not too small to write in, they’re too big to put anywhere near your work space. Plus who likes writing vertically?

Recently, I came up with a handy little hack that works for me and makes use of all these little post-it notes I get from surplus medical office supplies. It’s the Post It… » Continue

February 26 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: calendar | 6 comments»

Productivity & Organizing Myth #5 – the right planner (tool) is all you need

Myth: Having the right portfolio planner, calendar, mole skine and containers (tools) will make someone productive.
Reality: Having the right tools is the first part to being productive, managing your time well, and being successful. The second part, which is even more vital, is that one knows how to use the tools.

None of us would expect to be master gardeners just because we purchased a shovel and rototiller. Nor would… » Continue

February 21 2007 | By Susan | Tagged: calendar, planner, Productivity, tool | 5 comments»

Incorporate Google Calendar Into Outlook

Grinn introduces an application called Remote Calendars which able Outlook 2003/2007 to subscribe, reload and delete a generic remote iCalendar (RFC 2445). With this Outlook Add-in, you can integrate Google Calendar Into Outlook.

As the installation and configuration is not self-explainary. Grinn also offers a how-to to work through the setup:

Google recently released a new service that’s an online calendar for scheduling your day and planning and organizing events with… » Continue

September 14 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: calendar, outlook, software | 2 comments»

Hard and Soft Landscapes: Calendar vs. Reminders

Patrick Rhone sent me an email with his interesting topic. He is trying to clear up the confusion on how calendar fits with GTD. He suggests calendar should be used only an appointment or event is happening at a specific time. There are also tasks where you need to do within a timeframe but not in specific time. So he come up with a calendar and reminder type of separation… » Continue

August 18 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: calendar, gtd, reminder | no comments»

Appointment bookends: Use ‘em.

I have some very simple advice for you this week which can revolutionize your workweek productivity.

It describes a habit I had fallen into out of sheer necessity when I was a corporate VP in operations, finding that appointments could easily and completely dominate my entire day if I allowed them to. My calendar was a parade of interviews, employee counseling, staff meetings, vendor appointments, and customer meet-and-greets, all those same… » Continue

June 15 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: appointments, calendar, Productivity, schedule, workstyle | 7 comments»

Use Google Calendar to Log Conversations

You’re meeting with more people, and having more phone and IM conversations with clients, and the information is getting harder to manage, especially the simple act of remembering what it was you talked about with who. Here are 5 reasons why you should use Google Calendar to log conversations:

1.) Search-rich metadata- You can search on date, contact name, or anything you leave in the details section.

2.) Date-based record… » Continue

June 7 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: calendar, conversation, googlecalendar, hack, howto, Lifehack, notetaking, software, web2.0 | 5 comments»

Gmail Hack 2- Use the Calendar Right Away

I was making plans with someone today via email, and as I use gmail as my client, I noticed something: there’s a little button above the text entry area (up in the right corner) that says “Add Event Info.” I clicked this, and right there inline, was the option to throw the plans right there into my Google Calendar. Oh, and it auto-generated a .ics file, in case my mail… » Continue

May 31 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: calendar, gmail, google, googlecal, hack, workflow | 4 comments»

Google Calendar now live

Google Calendar is released! It looks pretty promising, but I will not use this for my daily workflow. However It seems useful for keep track of different public calendar (such as subscribing myself to FIFA World Cup timetable, Australian holidays, and holidays for my team members etc). Make sure you take a look.

Google Calendar

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April 13 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: calendar, software | 1 comment»

30 boxes and Rainlendar or Sunbird

Kevin Neely has a neat idea on connecting the online calendar service, 30boxes to desktop applications such as Rainlendar or Sunbird. The key element of it is the ability from 30boxes to export ical file format (.ics):

… Fortunately, 30boxes, even in its infancy, has provided for a couple ways to get to your calendaring data for importing into other applications. The format of choice is called ‘iCal’ which is… » Continue

March 21 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: calendar, ical, software, tips | 2 comments»

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