A personal assistant can perform time management tasks for you. But if you do not have one then there is nothing to worry about. You can easily have a solution by using Google Calendar on your Desktop.
The need to organize is a part of human nature especially if you are at some important position in a company; even if that is not the case, there are many people around you who expect you to remember their birthdays, wedding anniversaries and other related stuff. With the pressure of work or studies, it is physically impossible for a person to keep track of so many dates. Many of you must have had the embarrassing experience of making a commitment with your wife or a close friend for dinner or shopping and then having to cancel it because of any important meeting that was scheduled weeks ago and that somehow slipped your mind.
The desktop Google calendar helps you organize yourself in a better way. It has a number of features other than just being a plan calendar which ensure smoothness in your day to day planning. The most important feature in this regard is that it connects to your Google calendar directly, so all you have to do is to update your online calendar while checking your emails. You can put in birthday reminders, events, meetings, appointments and wedding anniversaries reminders etc. in your calendar. You will get emails and reminders on your desktop about all the upcoming events. But there is a problem here; the Google calendar on your desktop is read only meaning that you cannot update it directly like a number of other desktop applications. The editing, deleting and adding of new events has to be done from Gmail calendar.
Another important thing that you should know about this application is that it is available online. Do not be missing guided by the name – the Google desktop calendar can be accessed from your cell phone as well. In addition to this, you can open it at public computers too to check your schedule. This ease of availability has made Google desktop calendar popular among a number of people. In addition to this, Google has given a number of features with the desktop calendar to make it different from others in the market.
You get regular updates of weather forecasts on your desktop calendar. These forecasts are powered by Google which means that they are very authentic. So you can plan your week according to the weather conditions being displayed by your desktop Google calendar. The desktop calendar can also be used as a search engine; there is a panel right above the dates where you can type the stuff that you want to search about and your browser will take you to the Google homepage directly. It is very simple and convenient to use.
The Google desktop calendar does have a number of drawbacks but they are working to improve its quality and to introduce more add on features for the interest of the customers. Google has always managed to produce the best of things whether it is a search engine, email inbox or social networking. Its gadgets have the same working quality as the online applications. The Google desktop calendar can be downloaded for free and takes only a 11 KB of space to install. Therefore, it is highly recommended by a number of experts.
