Archives for the 'calendar' Category
6 Tips For Using Your Calendar Effectively [The 4-Hour Workweek Journal]
I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.-Marilyn Monroe
Here are some great tips that I have learned using my calendar for scheduling appointments and events. Since I have only ever used an electronic calendar (first Outlook, then Google Calendar and most recently the Lightning extension for Thunderbird), these tips cater somewhat to these types [...]
Google Calendar Sync [Hack Your Day]
Google released a neat tool for syncing Google Calandar and the Outlook Calendar. It works both ways, and this is probably the reason I am going back to Outlook again. I love Google Calendar, but Outlook gives you a whole lot more tools.
Just to be a Google fan I have been using Google Calendar, so [...]
How to Sync Google Calendar with a Desktop App [Gearfire Productivity]
Don't get me wrong, Google Calendar is a great app with a great UI, But there are some situations where you might want to access GCal from your desktop. There are a couple ways of accessing GCal from your desktop using programs such as Rainlendar or Thundirbird.
GCal in Thunderbird: (works in Mozilla Sunbird as well) [...]
The Other Tools in My Box [GTD Wannabe]
I received an email a couple of months ago, asking what kind of tools did I use for different parts of my process. I’m finally getting around to answering those questions, mostly because part of my answer depends on information you didn’t have until I added recent posts
So, in answer to Fox’s [...]
The Super-Duper…End [GTD Wannabe]
Well, this is it! The very very last post in a very very long, drawn-out series on my Super-Duper Productivity Desktop Background. It’s been quite a while in coming, but we’ve finally reached the end.
All I want to do here is summarize what the series has covered. First, the point of this [...]
Second Last Post on Super-Duper Personalized Productivity Background - TV guide [GTD Wannabe]
Second last post on my Super-Duper Personalized Productivity Background series (see end of this post for a list of other posts in this series). Again, I’m talking about getting a wickedly cool productivity desktop background for your computer, using such lovely things as: Cygwin, Remind, Samurize.
But today, we’re not focussing so much on productivity, [...]
Introducing Remind - A Text-based Calendar [GTD Wannabe]
Before I can continue with my Super-Duper Personalized Productivity Desktop background series (see intro and stack), I need to introduce you to the software required to get your text-based calendar onto your desktop background.
First, for you folks that are living in Windows, you need to make the acquaintance of Cygwin. Cygwin is described [...]
Super-Duper blah blah blah, Part 4 - Tiny Calendars [GTD Wannabe]
Now I’m not quite done with the Super-Duper Personalized Productivity Background series - there’s still more stuff on the desktop to show you. (See end of this post for a list of other posts in this series.)
Today I want to talk to you about a nifty little thing that Cygwin does for you, call [...]
Super-Duper blah blah blah, Part 3 - The Calendars [GTD Wannabe]
Now that I’ve introduced you to Remind (and my calendar), I can get back to my Super-Duper Personalized Productivity Desktop Background series (Part 1, Part 2).
We’re getting back to configuring Samurize again. In that introductory post, I showed you my desktop, which had a textual calendar on it. Well, two actually. One [...]
My Remind Calendar [GTD Wannabe]
Now that I’ve introduced you to Remind, the awesome UNIXy textual calendar thingy, I can show you what my calendar looks like.
Viewing the Next Four Weeks
Remind lets you view your calendar in different ways, from a one-day view, to a week-view, to a multi-week view. What you see here is what I call the [...]