7 Reasons to Use Google Calendar - Comments Page 1

While I love Google calendar and rely on it as you do, I've found that recurring events are best handled by Apple calendar on my iPad. Now I can put in events that occur every 2 (or whatever) weeks, no matter which date I start on. Google limits me to "every second (or whatever) week." These new entries are then synced correctly to my Google calendars everywhere.

When an event has to be moved, ie: was going to have a picnic Saturday but it rained, you can drag & drop the event to the rain-date. No need to retype anything. Even the reminders will automatically change.

Hi Bob. I read most of your articles. Well written and to the point. Keep up the good work!
I have been using Google Calendar for quite some time now in combination with aCalendar+ in my Samsung Android phone. I agree with you in your appreciation, however, there is something I don't like about it: You don't have a way to check mark or make disappear (without deleting the event) an event that you already did. - No way - So if you have 9 things (to do + appointments) you have to look at them the whole day or you have to delete each event as it is done. Any tip will be welcome.

Yes, Google Calendar is a great app, and far more flexible and easy-to-use than the Outlook application within Microsoft Office (in my opinion).

Decades ago, soon after the introduction of Sidekick and other memory-resident programs, someone introduced a DOS-based program called Calendar Creator. It was wonderful! I've not used it in many, many years. I just discovered it's still available as a Windows program. If just these two of its many features were in Google Calendar, I'd switch back to Google Calendar in a heartbeat:

1. I want to be able to PRINT my calendar--in MY format. I know that printing on actual paper is so old school. But so am I. Google's page layouts are limited. How about a half-sheet (5-1/2 x 8-1/2") weekly calendar, plus a half-sheet daily calendar with all the notes intact? Unless I'm missing something, Google Calendar is limited to just a few 8-1/2 x 11" formats.

Please don't tell me not to print. I was raised using a Franklin Planner (7-ring style), and it is SO user-friendly!

2. Calendar Creator had a marvelous feature for birthdays and anniversaries. If you entered the month/day/year of John's birth, for example, the next year the calendar event would read, "John's 1st birthday." The following year would read, "John's 2nd birthday," etc.

You could even ask yourself, "I wonder how old John will be in 2058?" and if you scrolled forward far enough, you read, "John's 43rd birthday."

They used the same concept with anniversaries.

Google doesn't offer that, of course, so I do it with an Excel spreadsheet, which I print once each year, in half-sheet-size format, of course.

Google Calendar has a lot going for it, but I'm sticking with my handy Franklin-style binder.

Now, if I can just remember where I left it. ...

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If I can avoid using the internet to do things, I do. I keep my appointments on flash drives and a external hdds. I've been doing it for the past 8 years and it has worked very well. I can look back in time to see what I did and when I did it.

"The Old Fogey" is at it again. Don't have a cell phone, dumb phone, or smart phone--don't need one nor want one. Don't want to log in to Google to use Google Calendar which sure seems like a contemporary version of the old "Early Bird" calendar. Personally I have my own "calendar" set up using Excel--works just fine for me--no need to sign in with Google, etc. Thanks for the info though.

One more reason to use Google Calendar -- if you have Android, you can set up Google Calendar to automatically sync your calendar to your Android phone's calendar. Then you can check your appointments on your phone even if you have no data connection. Similarly, you can make appointments on your phone and they will sync back to Google Calendar. (And if you have the right software, you can also sync your Google Calendar with Outlook and other apps on your PC).

I don't know about syncing Google Calendar with Apple devices.

Giving it a try. Sync with my Galaxy III seems to be a nice feature.

My husband and I (both iPhone users) have been using Google Calendar for a couple of years now, we do the same as you sharing one calendar so we can both see each others availability. However, you do mention that you can get a text message reminder on your phone - how do you do that? When entering a new event I see under notifications where I can tell it to set a "pop-up" or "email" notification, I don't see anything that states text. Please advise.

My favorite part of Google Calendar is that whenever I book concert tickets via Ticketmaster, it automatically updates my calendar.

Give me a call and I'll talk you through doing a calendar search in Outlook. Won't take long - there's only one step!

We use Google calendar at our church. Our problem is that if we have too many activities on a day, the calendar spreads out and we cannot print it on ONE 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. We really need to do that so we can post it for parishioners to see what's up for the next week or two. We are currently using two sheets, side by side for busy weeks, but that's a pain.

The only thing I don't like is that when I search for reoccurring events, it only shows the most recent years. My work around is to use the "jump to date" lab to go back to the earliest date or range of dates and search. I'd love to know if I'm missing something.

One problem with the Google calendar:
When you make it public , it doesn't copy the colors

After your over-the-top USA nativist/racist post (shades of the 1850s) in "Where is Your AntiVirus Made?" I seriously considered whether I would want to continue to subscribe to your "newsletter".

For example, if you seriously view the current right-wing regime in the Czech Republic as left-wing compared to the current centre-right USAregime, or hostile to USA interests, then you are seriously ignorant and out of touch.

Your posting about Google Calendar is little more than pimping for NSA affiliate Google (as if have done before for NSA's buddy Apple). I understand that people living in the USA have long since sacrificed any rights to digital privacy, but I expected more of you.

I don't expect you to explicitly recant your nativist/racist/ (subtly0 pro-NSA rants, but I will cancel my subscription to your "newsletter" if you don't, in the near future,.shape up and deal with issues globally rather than from your increasingly narrow USA-only persective

EDITOR'S NOTE: So I'm a nativist. Huh. Webster defines that as "a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants." I can't see how anything in my article even remotely touches on that. And a racist? Webster says that's "a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another." Again, I can't see any reference to racism in my article on the origins of security software. You'll have to pardon me for mentioning the Czech Republic in a list of countries that may not be staunch allies of the USA. It's been a while since I graduated high school, at which time CZ was a repressive communist regime. Kudos to them for implementing a representative democracy over the past 20-odd years. I tweaked the wording as a result.

I think if you read my article again, you'll find it's not actually cheerleading for the USA, or claiming that antivirus software made outside our borders is automatically suspect. What I did say was that "we have no assurances that 'Made in America' antivirus products aren't keeping tabs on what we do online." I also stated that "'country of origin' is not necessarily a useful litmus test of antivirus software’s trustworthiness." And to cap it off, I confessed that I use Avast, which is headquartered in the Czech Republic.

So I plead not guilty to nativism and racism. Perhaps you meant to call me a patriot -- "one who loves his or her country and supports its authority and interests." I'm a proud American, and my writing may occasionally reflect that. Oh, and about digital privacy, it seems that your Canadian government is also surreptitiously spying on its citizens, in collaboration with the NSA. So you might want to check out some of my articles on encryption, before you unsubscribe.

I am off topic, but I love the cact that you have a WIFE. Not just a partner It gives me more confidence in your opinions since you respect age old values.

I've used Google Calendar for several years and love it but have an issue with syncing. If I enter an event in my computer, it will sync with my Android phone (Motorola Droid Razer Maxx HD) but not the reverse. If I enter it in my phone, it will not display on the calendar on my computer. Any ideas?

I have found that appointments I enter in calendar with people in my contact list will pop up on my NEXUS 7 with info on what time I have to leave to arrive on time. On some it even gives traffic reports if major highways are involved.

Love creating multiple calendars!
Put all my "reminders" - - take out the trash - - on one calendar but do not have that calendar "showing" every day. Have a different color for every calendar and I can tell immediately which events are "important" and which can be skipped or rescheduled.

I much prefer www.cozy.com. Does everything that Google Calendar does without Google spying on you.