How do you keep track of your family’s schedule? I will confess I do not have a great system in place. I tend to work from memory, which is sort of like working without tools. My friend, Rebecca, uses a one-sheet paper calendar and that works for her family. I tend to like paper, too. I know there are some great digital calendars available, but I haven’t tried them yet.
I’m exploring Google Calendar (or gCal).
Here’s a video that talks about how to share your schedule in Google Calendar:
Here’s another with more in depth tips and tricks:
Are you using Google Calendar? If so, what do you think of it? If not, what do you use?
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My husband and I have been using Google calendar for a couple years now, and it works pretty well for us. We have it set up to be our default calendar on our iPhones, and we can access it anywhere we have a computer. I’ve been having a little problem with things being listed off by an hour, but I think I didn’t change a setting either on my phone or my online Google profile when we moved from Eastern to Central time zones.