Google Calendar vs. iCal for GTD
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From featured author Cheryl!
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I’m wondering if anyone uses Google Calendar or ICal with your GTD system…First because I don’t like, understand or use Outlook, and secondly because, as the commercials say, “Hello, I’m a Mac.”
(Of course, I’m also technologically challenged, so I need something that’s going to be easy to implement and simple to use.)
One of the things I’ve noticed is that sometimes when I’m scheduling a teleseminar or webinar that I want to participate in, there’s a little button that says “add to outlook calendar” – but I don’t see similar buttons (note to me: find out if this is what’s called a widget) for ICal or Google Calendar.
So I wondered about it.
And I did a little research – in fact, I found several programs that run on Mac, and are supposed to work with the GTD system – the problem is, there was so much information – and so many different programs – some of which seem to go to links that aren’t active any more – that I got confused pretty quickly.
And so I did a bad thing – NOTHING!
My goal for myself last week was to find out how to use ICal or the Google Calendar (at this point I don’t care which, I just want to use SOMETHING that works) – and I blew it. I got sidetracked, and started checking out neat websites, but I didn’t make any progress on my goal, and I still don’t have my calendar system put together.
So now I’ve moved that goal to this week, but before I waste a lot of time (which I don’t have this week, since tomorrow is my birthday and I’ve got a houseful of people coming to lunch and this week I have 3 projects going, two coaching sessions, I’m teaching both classes this week, a case study to write…(sheesh! As I write this, I’m hearing music in my head…I feel like I should be saying “…And a partridge in a pear tree…)
Anyway, as you can see…I’m teetering on the brink of overwhelm.
So, if you’ve got any recommendations about which of the two calendars works best – ICal or Google, and have the time to offer me a few words of wisdom about how to get it up and running, I’d be very grateful!
Oh – and I thought I’d update you on our move! It’s looking like there’s not going to be one after all. The rental system here in France is very different from that in the states -
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