For those of you looking for a way to make your week a little more structured and organized but don’t have access to iCal, I have done a brief review on Google Calendar to help you plan your day.

To get started with G.C. you have to sign in (or set-up) a Google account. I already have a Gmail address so I just signed myself in, went to “My Account” and clicked on “Calendar”.

For the fist few minutes I just kind-of clicked on things to see what did what and was actually very surprised at the ease and convenience of use. If you want to put a new event you can just click right on the calendar and a little dialog window pops up for you to enter the name of your event at the time you clicked on (in :30 minute incraments) and then wa-la you have a new event…

If you, like me, have multiple calender’s for diferent events (i.e. personal events, traveling, meetings, etc…) then you can easily make new calendars with G.C. Simply click on the the plus sign next to “My Calendars”. A form will pop up for you to enter in information about this new calendar, if you want it to be public or not, if you want other people to share in it’s events, etc… I did not create a public calendar but left it private. When you’re done just click on ‘Create Calendar’ and you have a new color coded Calendar. You can create as many as you like. (If you want to edit them, click on the little “Manage calendars” link.).

Now that I have more than one Calendar when I go to create a new event by clicking somewhere in the timeline field my dialog box also gives me an option to select which calendar I want to use.

Another way to create events is with the Quick Add. If you click on the link a box shows up and you can type in the name, time and date of your event and shabam, you got it!

If you prefer more detail when adding your event you click on the “Create Event” link. This gives you many more options such as what, when, where, repeat, a descripton and alarm and many more… This is the way I would recommend for filling in your regular routine of events. Set repeat and go.

I’m a big fan of setting alarms on events that are not a part of my regular routine. I’ll set them for 24 hours in advance so I can be reminded of that event the day before it happens.

Being reliable and on time is important.

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