Why I like Google Calendar

Cool Interface:
You can view by day, week or month, as well as a few days ahead and agenda view. You can customize your view with colors, highlighting of days/events and easily move around the calendar with your arrow keys and shortcuts.


Easy Add and Integration:
Click anywhere on the calendar to quickly add an event. Add details to the event if you like, including the “Where” option with a map (one of my favorite features). You can easily import events from other calendars you may have and you can share your events with others, as well as allow comments, send invitations, RSVP and reminders for your guests (I haven’t used this yet, but I still think it’s a cool option). There’s Gmail integration and a cool Add-on for Firefox users (like me!). This firefox add-on is a must have by the way. It sits at the bottom of your firefox browser. Use firefox? Get the add-on here.

Agenda & Notifications:
This is a screen shot of the Agenda view. It’s another one of my favorite features of the Google Calendar because I can it will list all my activities by date for the week or month that I choose and then I can print that out and carry it with me in my organizer. I can also easily print off any calendar view that I want.. day, week, month or a view of just a few days if I like. Your Google Calendar will will send you alerts and notifications of your events if you want (a must for me!) by email or through your mobile phone.

The Google Calendar, like many of Google’s products, is free to use. The calendar can remain private or can be made public to share with family, friends or the world. Click here to see an overview of this calendar at the Google site. You’ll need a google account to get started. There’s nothing to download and it’s all 100% free. If you need a google account to get started, just email me and let me know. I’ll send you a free google invite.