Just because your calendar is full of events, tasks, and deadlines doesn’t mean that it’s helping you optimize your time. After all, you could be overestimating — or (more likely), underestimating the time it takes you to complete a task or host a meeting. You need some calendar hacks to help you optimize and save […]
Grabbing your Outlook Calendar and fleeing to Google Calendar should feel liberating. You’re ditching Microsoft’s complex email and calendar software, and moving to something much simpler, more accessible and easier to use on mobile devices. As you’d expect from Microsoft, the process of exporting and importing isn’t entirely straightforward. The first step is to export […]
It’s been estimated that over 35 million Americans move each year. I was one of these people. While I’ve moved many times before, this was a little more difficult. Moving means taking care of all of the “moving fun,” like packing, purging, loading up items in a truck, unloading the truck, and unpacking. It can […]
Procrastination is something that most people have faced at some point in their lives. For some reason, we as humans struggle to avoid things that are unpleasant. We delay the inevitable, especially when it’s unpalatable. And we even do the same procrastination techniques when there is an issue or event that is really important to […]
Has “Bah, Humbug,” been your mantra? Even Scrooge was able to change, and he didn’t even have a calendar to help himself, but you have this remarkable tool at your fingertips. If your goal is to get off the naughty list, here is how your calendar helps get you on the “nice” list. First make […]
Calendars are supposed to be private place — unless you want to let everyone know about an event to which they’re all invited. Whether that event is a birthday party, a planning meeting or a deadline to deliver a project, Google Calendar, like every digital calendar, lets you spread an event to all its participants. […]
Setting goals is a fairly easy task. However, actually completing these goals is another thing altogether. Then there are all of the suggestions you receive from well-meaning individuals — practically everyday. But one way to discover what is really important today is to see what an athlete would tell you. An athlete would tell you […]
Microsoft’s Outlook is a fairly complex piece of software. While Google Calendar and Apple’s calendar app assume that users will be individual customers who want to keep track of their friends’ birthdays, their dentist appointments, and their PTA meetings, Microsoft assumes that its users will sitting in their offices. Users don’t just create events. They […]
This is Google Calendar help if you’re on vacation or have to leave the office at 5pm sharp to pick-up the kids. Do you dread those early Monday morning meetings? Google Calendar ensures that you can better manage your work and personal time. As long as you’re a G Suite user you can set an out […]
Initially released in 2013, Google Hangouts is the default and easy-to-use communication platform that includes messaging, video chat, SMS, and VOIP features. It replaced Google Talk, Google+ Messenger, and Hangouts, which was originally the video chat system within Google+. Since its initial release, Hangouts has continued to evolve from an experimental Google+ feature to a […]
Deanna Ritchie
Editor-in-Chief at Calendar. Former Editor-in-Chief and writer at Startup Grind. Freelance editor at Entrepreneur.com. Deanna loves to help build startups, and guide them to discover the business value of their online content and social media marketing.