Google Calendar

Google calendar is a helpful tool to help people become more organized.  Users are able to quickly add events and tasks.  Events can be added as a one-time event or as repeated events.  They can even be color coded, so users can differentiate between personal and professional.  When you add an event, you can type in a short description, times, location, and share the event with other people who you can allow to modify or view the event.  Google recently added a new feature called ‘find a time’ which allows users to see a view of guests’ calendars side-by-side.   Users can preview the time to see if it will work for multiple people. 

Google calendar is used by my school and has been a valuable tool.  Now, when I need to see if a date is free for me to schedule a meeting all I have to do is look on Google calendar.  Before using Google calendar, I would need to go to our white board calendar to check availability.  Google calendar has been a huge help.  

Google calendar offers many views, but I particularly like the agenda tab because it shows me all the events that I need to do that day.  Other views are day, week, or month.  Another helpful feature of Google calendar is the task bar which is essentially a “to-do” list.   Using Google calendars can improve your ability to be organized if you give it a try.