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Calendars

Somehow people are preoccupied with time and dates since quite a while ago. Ancient people have been obsessed with building clocks that doesn't stray out of time, that tells the time of the day accurately and much interest have been vested in calendars, making sure that your Sunday is not actually my Monday and that the number of days in a week on mine corresponds to yours. We often take civilization for granted these days and it takes these fundamental developments in standardization of time, calendars, days of a week and days of a year to get people to coordinate, cooperate and collaborate. And that's why planners are nothing but calendars blended with a notebook.

These days however, things comes on a screen would have more functionality and can be improved by the 'manufacturers' more easily and so I would usually go online for my planner solutions. Long ago Yahoo! Calendar would be good for slotting in a couple of important events and then you are reminded if you request to be. That was a time when using a planner online isn't that serious an affair because it was tedious to enter different details in so many fields on the 'event' forms and everything seem to be treated like some huge event on the online calendar even a gentle reminder to shop for ant traps for the family seem to appear like a big affair on my email inbox.

These days when the pressure to digitalize my information, including more private ones like planner activities breech my threshold I decided to hunt for a good online solution. And I stumbled on Google Calendar. The first thing that impresses me is how its use of AJAX allows the web application to behave almost just like a calendar application on my computer (stuff like Outlook Calendar or iCal). And of course, it'd be a good idea to make use of Google Chrome to run the Calendar off an Application Shortcut, making it even more like an application on your computer.

Of course at times you decide you need an offline copy of things just to ensure you have backup or access to your calendar when you can't access the Internet so readily. It's definitely useful to synchronize the Google Calendar information with your local iCal or Outlook and then make them synchronize with your Palm as well and it'd be perfect although it seems quite a messy process.

You'd ask, wait a minute: I do have the Palm or smartphone synchronization software and it does work with Outlook or iCal but how to get Google Calendar's data over to these desktop applications in the first place? The solution is Calgoo.

Calgoo Connect is a powerful software that helps you get the job done and perhaps more. Because it allows you to synchronize across Outlook/iCal and Google Calendar, you can synchronize data between desktop computers as well, from your office to your online account and then synchronize the data over to your home computer from your online account. This is an additional data store besides using your handheld device to deliver the information. The initial process may be a little daunting and beware of messing up your calendars but once you get the hang of things, it should be fine. Be sure to set your time zones and dates correctly because that is always the reason for your calendar getting messed up and it's not a joking matter specially if you are into efficiency.