So Thing 8 is looking at Google calendar, after setting this up and playing around with it I can see the benefits of it but don't think this is for me. The reasons for this are that I religiously use my calendar, which hangs above my radiator in my kitchen and can be accessed without needing the internet, for everything, it has birthdays, appointments, training and any social plans that I have. I see it every time I'm in my kitchen so it's accessible. Also, at this stage in my career, right at the very start, it's not necessary for anyone other than me to know what I'm doing, no-one would book an appointment with me so no-one else needs access to my timetable.
That being said, once I move on and up, my workplace uses the calendar feature in Outlook to arrange diarys/appointments, as everyone is already familiar with this I don't think a change would be taking place, this seems a fairly common thread throughout the blogs. As yet I haven't found a way to import Outlook into Google so that would mean keeping 2 calendars, plus the one in my kitchen. So Google calendar just doesn't do it for me.
To get your work calendar on Outlook to sync with your personal calendar on Google, you need to download a piece of software called Google calendar sync - you may need to ask IT to come and install it on your machine if you don't have admin rights, but we know that they have bugger-all else to do!
ReplyDeleteTo be honest I prefer having it written down in one place, as discovered yesterday when the network went down - computers are not always the best tool for the job!
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