tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post6711724814694575558..comments2024-03-18T03:03:42.559-05:00Comments on IHeart Organizing: UHeart Organizing: Synchronizing SchedulesIHeart Organizinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05084013302005288836noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-8549077926626599902013-07-18T16:32:39.538-05:002013-07-18T16:32:39.538-05:00Thanks for the tips. Gave me the final push to org...Thanks for the tips. Gave me the final push to organize myself using google calendars and I love it.Stacy Snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-78028145947301608432013-06-11T00:44:34.065-05:002013-06-11T00:44:34.065-05:00I love that I can view my google family calendar i...I love that I can view my google family calendar in outlook. I can't edit it from there, but it's nice to be able to look at my family calendar without pulling out my phone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-89533335388220585462013-06-08T19:36:51.685-05:002013-06-08T19:36:51.685-05:00I actually did this for myself! I have a calendar ...I actually did this for myself! I have a calendar for personal, one for my photography business and one for my organizing business! Works like a charm!<br /><br />Kristen from The Road to Domestication<br />www.theroadtodomestication.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08306390505502630791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-78190300582898227052013-06-04T03:43:57.580-05:002013-06-04T03:43:57.580-05:00My hubby and I are both working professionals and ...My hubby and I are both working professionals and we live by our google calendars! We each have individual calendars (which we share with each other) and then a Family calendar which is shared with our child care providers so that they can add to it if they need (grandparents, nanny). It really helps keep all the school dates, play dates and parties straight. Rupahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15006434447410719362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-86001324513286230412013-06-01T00:24:59.717-05:002013-06-01T00:24:59.717-05:00I use Google for everything as well! I use Calenda...I use Google for everything as well! I use Calendar in the same ways as most commenters so far, but some other ways I use Google Calendar is to put phone numbers and street addresses in the event. If I find I'm running late to an appointment I can go right to the event which is front and center on my cell phone and make a call. And by clicking the address, I can start navigation right away as well.<br /><br />The other thing I do in calendar is take notes on phone calls. If I'm calling with a complaint or a problem with an account somewhere, I put up an event in the calendar, write the names of all the people I get transferred to, and then take extensive notes. When I have to call back to follow up (which I inevitably do) I can document the date and time as well as key quotes.<br /><br />I also use the tasks function which puts check boxes on each day.<br /><br />And when the quarter is over (with some extensive editing :( ) I download and print all my calendars for easy reference through the years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-13747580613336898492013-05-31T12:01:06.354-05:002013-05-31T12:01:06.354-05:00Great post! I certainly agree...nothing like handw...Great post! I certainly agree...nothing like handwriting with a new writing tool and fresh paper:) Oh, the smell of paper! Thanks so much for sharing!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15486867369361805826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-41913190916509131102013-05-31T09:48:32.781-05:002013-05-31T09:48:32.781-05:00I also use the free version of Cozi. I also use the free version of Cozi. Suzie's Armoirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06846398858920886752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-1681452437721306162013-05-31T09:45:59.877-05:002013-05-31T09:45:59.877-05:00I also use the free version of Cozi. I haven't...I also use the free version of Cozi. I haven't managed to get anyone else in the house using it, yet. I stil keep a paper calendar on the fridge, plus a dry erase sheet the I fill in every Sunday with the weeks activities, appointments, etc. I use a "job ticket holder" plastic sleeve and have a weekly calendar I designed in Publisher. The printout has the recurring info (dance practices, which days the kids have gym/library/band/etc.) in one column, and then space for me to write special happenings in another column. And I have space to jot done a shopping list, too. The printout goes in the plastic sleeve, and then I use a dry erase marker to add the week's info and shopping list. The sleeve hangs on my fridge with a magnetic hook. The multi-calendar system still confuses my husband because he doesn't know where to look. Suzie's Armoirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06846398858920886752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-13184850096872144052013-05-31T08:21:35.320-05:002013-05-31T08:21:35.320-05:00You have got lot on your plate and calendar. :) Go...You have got lot on your plate and calendar. :) Good luck with pregnancy. Anna Seewaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01890262692443727249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-88073330977113070152013-05-31T07:28:02.054-05:002013-05-31T07:28:02.054-05:00My husband and I use this in the exact same manner...My husband and I use this in the exact same manner! Love this post :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03337793981767245854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-1846901146775353392013-05-31T07:23:04.394-05:002013-05-31T07:23:04.394-05:00Multi-calendar user here too. And I LOVE LOVE LOV...Multi-calendar user here too. And I LOVE LOVE LOVE (with pink puffy hearts) that I can toggle the school calendars on and off as needed whenever I want on any device.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00882564439567415482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-25316499640077605302013-05-31T07:20:28.397-05:002013-05-31T07:20:28.397-05:00You can either create a new calendar within your o...You can either create a new calendar within your own account (good for little kids schedules, etc) or link them to another gmail address.<br /><br />STRONG advocate for google calendar! I could not function without it (home or work).Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00882564439567415482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-56827160187328553792013-05-31T07:20:19.352-05:002013-05-31T07:20:19.352-05:00Our family has been using the google calendar for ...Our family has been using the google calendar for years. However we opted for colour-coding instead of creating several different calendars - one colour for each member of the family.Our calendar looks very busy - with business trips, tax deadlines, vaccinations and birthday parties:)))<br />It has been a life-saver and I strongly recommend it to anyone, who is looking for a simple solutionpenchinatoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00193136078230580981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-17060145928932120952013-05-31T03:01:06.806-05:002013-05-31T03:01:06.806-05:00Planning to clean my room and organize my closet b...Planning to clean my room and organize my closet but dont know where to start. Finding inspiration from your blog :) <br /><br /><a href="http://www.joeiandme.com" rel="nofollow">www.joeiandme.com</a>joei ♥https://www.blogger.com/profile/14607539446136845299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-27496243681918844522013-05-31T02:29:50.122-05:002013-05-31T02:29:50.122-05:00I am a HUGE google accounts fan. But not just cale...I am a HUGE google accounts fan. But not just calendars, I use reader & iGoogle (both soon to be closed - sad face) Drive - for which all my documents are stored from meal planning spreadsheets, finance forecasting & bills, Christmas card lists, to detailed itineraries for my holiday to Walt Disney World. Calendars allows me to keep everything sorted, I have my work calendar shared within my personal account as well as a birthdays and anniversaries calendar, meal planning, events and even a rota of when to put out my rubbish bins (i have 4 different ones here in the UK and they all get emptied on different weeks lol) The calendars, documents and items I want to share with my husband gets shared and we both have write access, its soooo easy with google.Nicola Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17497220441884994177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-42201521493241577542013-05-30T23:14:54.351-05:002013-05-30T23:14:54.351-05:00I might have to try this?
Natalie
http://landhous...I might have to try this?<br /><br />Natalie<br />http://landhousereno.blogspot.com.au/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03913795457226676694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-63223751067582992092013-05-30T23:07:04.363-05:002013-05-30T23:07:04.363-05:00Wanted to chime in and say I am all about my Googl...Wanted to chime in and say I am all about my Google calendars! I use it for EVERYTHING.Echohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02917026896229402541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-30428591043979596632013-05-30T21:11:17.367-05:002013-05-30T21:11:17.367-05:00Thanks so much for this post! I have seen and hear...Thanks so much for this post! I have seen and heard of others using it, but the whole thing seemed too daunting to start. Thanks for making it seem so easy!<br />Eliza in AustraliaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-73776448157595559602013-05-30T20:11:45.128-05:002013-05-30T20:11:45.128-05:00Great info! I'm a little "old school"...Great info! I'm a little "old school"…I still make handwritten lists and notes. Maybe I need to step out of my box! <br />Thanks,<br />Leslie<br />House on the WayAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07612072916971358723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-13318401020836389522013-05-30T19:13:07.296-05:002013-05-30T19:13:07.296-05:00I TOTALLY get people who write things down on thei...I TOTALLY get people who write things down on their lists that they've already done - just to cross them off. It's my way of remembering the mountains of stuff I do every day when I start wondering why I'm tired or lamenting that I must just be lazy. Also it's calming! Look, self, look at all you accomplished today! I teach 660 kids every week - without lists, no concerts would ever happen!eshetchayilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11671289701650121065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-11852259196219968442013-05-30T19:04:05.211-05:002013-05-30T19:04:05.211-05:00Oh man, if I could share a picture in this comment...Oh man, if I could share a picture in this comment, I would. I absolutely agree with the author of this article. My family consists of me, my husband, my stepdaughter, and our new unborn due in August. BUT, my stepdaughter is a child of two homes, at which she spends 50% of her time. My husband works outside the home, and I'm a full-time student.<br /><br />Here's a list of our calendars:<br /><br />College Calendar (events, important tuition dates, etc.)<br />Class #1 Calendar - due dates, etc.<br />Class #2 Calendar<br />Class #3 Calendar<br />(Sometimes Class #4 Calendar; classes change quarter to quarter)<br />Dy's School Schedule<br />Home (chores, activities, reminders)<br />Madzilla Time (Our daughter's calendar shared between houses)<br />Madz's Chore Chart<br />Madz's School Calendar<br />Meal Planning<br />Pregnancy Appointments<br />Birthdays and Holidays<br />Credit Cards (certain cards offer certain rewards each month)<br />Weather<br />Hubby and Dy's Obligations<br />Hubby's Obligations<br />Dy's Obligations<br /><br />And, because you can color each calendar however you like, I batch them - purple calendars belong to Madz, pink ones to me, and blue ones to the hubby. Green belongs to the new baby, but he hasn't got much of a schedule yet. My college stuff is orange, and yellow covers birthdays, holidays, and reminders.<br /><br />Plus, Business Calendar is a handy Android App for our phones that we both use so we can access any calendar, anywhere, to edit, add, remove or replace events.<br /><br />If Google Calendar EVER goes under, I don't know what I'm going to do with myself :( Dyhttp://growingupstepford.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-7336552292736037572013-05-30T19:03:09.943-05:002013-05-30T19:03:09.943-05:00Online calendars have been a life safer in our hou...Online calendars have been a life safer in our household. My partner is also a firefighter with an 8 day rotation; I work full time and am also a board member for a couple of not-for-pofit organisations entailing numerous meeting and weekend meetings; and we also have my partner's teenage daughter living with us about 30% of the time. The combination of our conflicting work schedules and having to make arrangements with SD's mother constantly had much potential for grief. Utilising calendars through the cloud has resulted in a much less stressful family life for us. <br /><br />We have been using the free version of the Cozi family calendar as the repository of all of our family appointments: firefighter shift rosters, firefighter scheduled vacations, meetings, school holidays, curriculum days, birthdays, parent/teacher interviews, nights that our stepdaughter will be at our home, who is picking up/dropping off stepdaughter, stepdaughter's sporting/social commitments etc. Cozi is online and has smartphone apps, best of all it sychronises with whichever electonic calendar you prefer - we have individual preferences for Google, Yahoo and Outlook all of which work very well, we all get the same information all of the time. The free version of Cozi is great, but has advertising which is a little less than ideal. There is a subscription version of Cozi that has no advertising, but we found that the price wasn't justified and there is not much in the way of increased functionality. Also, as we use Cozi as the repository of information, it then sync's with our own prefered calendars, we only go to Cozi to enter or change appointments/rosters - to find out what is on we all look at our own calendars on our phones and computers. This probably sounds a little clunky and onerous in terms of orgnasing, when we could just use Google calendars, however the one feature that we all truly love that keeps us using the Cozi account is that we have it set up to send us each an email on Sundays that has everyone's colour coded schedule for the week - it is a terrific reminder of what is coming up.<br /><br />The other tool that we have found really useful in organising our schedules is to use Tripit to organise all of our vacation and travel commitments, it also syncs with our calendars so everyone knows what is happening.<br /><br />We still keep an old fashioned calendar on the wall in the kitchen, so that we can see at glance what is coming up. Although this is probably just a case of old habits die hard, as we all go to the electronic calendar to see "the truth". Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-1865909494894451452013-05-30T18:27:09.136-05:002013-05-30T18:27:09.136-05:00This has been how we've operated for the past ...This has been how we've operated for the past 2 years and I love it! We each have our personal calendars and then we share a third calendar for family events that we both need to be at. It was so easy to keep it going when I switched to the iPhone and my husband stayed with an Android. We didn't even miss a beat, the system kept working perfectly. The bonus is that my work calendar that is done in Outlook will also sync to my iPhone. I can see everything I need in iCal at-a-glance using my iPad or iPhone. We avoid any scheduling conflicts because EVERYTHING goes on the calendar. That took some training, but we've been at it long enough that it's second nature now.Laurenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01157519973279197637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-36732036193003818732013-05-30T18:22:36.770-05:002013-05-30T18:22:36.770-05:00I should probly get on board with this. I love my ...I should probly get on board with this. I love my traditional calendars and colorful planners but sometimes my husband doesn't always 'remember' to check them out for important dates. Maybe... Just maybe, since we both have Gmail accounts we can both embrace the calendar on there {especially since he is in IT/Computer geek hehe} and both keep up to date with what's going on.<br /><br />Although I am more prone to paper myself, especially for important things. I have always had this fear of my technology 'devices' crashing and burning out and all of my online work will be lost forever lol.KLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693335306875099367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864666002840991252.post-85023120669511689812013-05-30T18:22:11.082-05:002013-05-30T18:22:11.082-05:00Leslie, Okay the 4 or 5 calendars are they each li...Leslie, Okay the 4 or 5 calendars are they each linked to a separate gmail account? for example is your personal calendar attached to one email, then the family calendar attached to another separate email? The toggle feature sounds great. Saschanoreply@blogger.com