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Create lists of upcoming to-dos and tasks, then view them conveniently from any of your devices.

Google Calendar makes it easy to create to-do lists so you don't forget anything important. You can create events yourself, or import data from any other calendars from your mobile device, including Exchange. You can set up convenient reminders for each event. Created events are instantly synced with your calendar on other devices.

When creating any events, the program will help you enter all the necessary data even faster. To do this, it will automatically substitute names, venues and guest lists.

A nice feature of the program Google Calendar is synchronization with . This means that if Google receives confirmation of your hotel reservation, restaurant reservation, or airline ticket to your email address, the program will automatically create a corresponding calendar event for the specified dates.

In addition, the program allows you to set personal goals. At the same time, it will help you find time to complete them in your schedule.

It is also worth adding that the program has a pleasant and intuitive interface, and also offers several viewing modes. This way, you can view the calendar in the most convenient way for you: by day, week or month.

Download the Google Calendar app for Android and easily keep track of all your upcoming tasks and set convenient reminders so you don't forget anything important.

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In the modern rhythm of life, so many events and activities accumulate that it is impossible to keep track of them all, and some of them are simply forgotten. We keep meetings, meetings, parties, seminars, birthdays and everything else in our heads, or with the hope of “not forgetting” we write them down in our diary, but... we then forget about them.

Advanced ones record events in phone reminders. Yes, it’s effective - the phone beeps and you remember what you wanted to do. But this method is not always convenient and takes a little time, especially if you need to record frequently. The Google Calendar service comes to the rescue, which can remind you of events using notifications on your desktop and by email. SMS alerts are available for Google Apps for Work, Google Apps for Education, and Google Apps for Government users.

How to start using Google Calendar

To use the calendar you must have a Google account, i.e. just get yourself an email (don't forget). If you already have it, then go to Google Calendar and begin to get acquainted with its capabilities. When you log in for the first time, you will be shown a small setup wizard with a welcome message where you can select a language

and then time zone

At the next stage, the default notification settings are configured (then everything can be changed). Here we can set reminder methods: email, pop-up window or SMS notification, and the time for which notifications should arrive by default.

In order to receive notifications via SMS, you need to link your mobile phone number. To do this, enter the number and click “Send code”. When the code arrives on your phone, you must enter it in the appropriate field. Google itself does not charge for SMS messages, but suggests that the operator may do so.

I really don’t charge anything and I don’t know which operator may charge a fee. Try it and let me know in the comments how you get on with it. Next, let's move on to the calendar itself:

It looks like an ordinary calendar, there is nothing complicated about it. You can choose the display scale per day, week, month or 4 days, as convenient. In the screenshot, the week is selected as the most convenient for me. Days go horizontally, hours go vertically.

In the settings that are called up from the “gear” you can set the formats for displaying the date, time, the first day of the week and much more interesting things:

How to create a new calendar event

We've gotten the hang of it a little, now let's create a new event. To do this, just point your mouse at the calendar square with the desired date and time. A dialog will appear indicating the name of the event

Here we can enter the exact time, indicate the location, description and other details. To add a notification by mail, click “Add notification”, select “Letter by mail” and set the time before which you need to be reminded. Please note that once the event itself occurs, there will be no further alerts. There is only a reminder before the event at the time we indicate.

Receive desktop notifications

It’s clear with mail and SMS, notifications arrive and everything is great. But with the pop-up window, not everything is so smooth. The standard window pops up only when the browser is open and looks like this:

For unknown reasons, the alert does not always work, so we will use the Checker Plus for Google Calendar extension for Google Chrome, Opera, Yandex Browser. After installation, the plugin will ask you to provide access to your account:

It will ask whether to log in through a Google or Chrome account? It doesn’t matter here, if , then choose it. Allow access to the calendar:

The settings menu will open, there is a lot of stuff there: sounds, types of reminders and options. You can choose Popup window or Rich Notification (in Windows Action Center).

Now calendar reminders will pop up on your computer in a window like this with sound:

In addition, directly from it, the event can be postponed from 5 minutes to 7 days. When you left-click on the extension icon, you can see the calendar almost as it is on the Google website.

Personally, this service helps me a lot in planning things. For smartphones there is an application of the same name, which can be found through search.

Google Calendar is a free online electronic diary, a faithful assistant in managing your affairs. With it you will not miss any important event by setting up reminders for upcoming events via E-Mail and SMS.

To start leading electronic diary online, you need to register with Google - create a mailbox. This will be enough to access many services, including the calendar.

Organizer program - Google calendar

The interface of this diary is quite simple; it looks like a regular calendar. Write down important events that you don't want to forget and set reminders for them. Thus, you plan your schedule for the day, week, month, or even a year in advance.

Those who log into the online diary for the first time will immediately be asked to customize the calendar for themselves: specify the country, time zone, notification schedule, etc. At the first stage of work, you can skip all this by clicking “Next” in the dialog box.

The calendar settings will still not go anywhere; you can return to them at any time from the corresponding section of the menu.

To add a new event, select a date in the calendar, then left-click on the time of day and give the event a name. If it will last more than 1 hour, click on the start time, and while holding the left mouse button down, select the desired time period.

Events are recorded in the diary and using the “Create” button. In the window that appears, write the name of the event, time, location, if necessary, a description and setting reminders.

Once the event data is entered, be sure to save it. The event created in the calendar will look like this.

The red line marks the current time.

Removing an event from the diary

To delete an event, left-click on it. The event window will open, click the “Delete” button.

Google Calendar Reminders and Alerts

The electronic diary has various notification options: via, SMS and pop-up windows in the calendar itself.

Everything is clear with E-Mail notifications - they arrive at the email address you specified during registration. To enable notifications by phone, go to the menu, select “Settings” - section “Settings for mobile devices”.

In the next window, select your country and enter your mobile phone number.

After entering your phone number, click the “Send verification code” button. You should receive a message with a verification code on your phone. Enter the received code in the appropriate form and “Complete setup”, then click “Save”.

The amount of time you will be notified before each event is configured at the event creation stage.

To disable SMS notifications, go to the main page of the electronic diary. On the left, expand the “My Calendars” drop-down list - select your calendar and in the menu that opens, go to “Reminders and Alerts”.

Uncheck the boxes next to SMS settings and save the changes.

If you're looking for a free digital planner, Google Calendar is a good planner.

I discovered that there is still not a single article on Habré about the mighty Rainlendar desktop calendar. I will make up for this unfortunate omission.

A little theory

What I wanted from a calendar

• so that he will always be with me - at home, at work, on a bench in the park, in public transport, in bed at three in the morning
• so you never have to worry about synchronization
• to be beautiful and sexy
• oh yes, and also convenient, ergonomic and intuitive

Materiel

• Google Calendar. Why I love gKal is that it can send SMS reminders. Very convenient, and also works on any mobile phone. And, of course, there is a mobile interface - so the Google calendar is available anytime, anywhere. Another thing is that it’s not very convenient to keep it open all the time, so we take...
• Rainlendar is an incredibly beautiful, convenient and unobtrusive desktop calendar for Windows/Linux. The Black Chromophore skin in my favorite Luna Element Black looks like it belongs to me. The pro version of Rainlendar can communicate with GCal directly, but it’s crooked, and we don’t need it, because there is...
• - a utility for synchronizing Google Calendar with local files. In general, she can do a lot of things - check Google mail, for example. Open-source, Java, cross-platform.

Settings

Especially lazy people do not need to organize events. Why do you need a calendar at all?

Next, install GCALdaemon. In the settings, open the “HTTP synchronizer” tab, click “Google account”, enter your login/password. We go to “File synchronizer”, check the “Enable” box (the top one), and then click on New to add our calendars from Google. Each calendar will be saved in a separate file (I have default.ics, projects.ics, finances.ics, holidays.ics, birthdays.ics) - it is convenient to put these files in one folder (I have f:\rainlendar)

Save and close the settings, go to Start - Programs - GCALdaemon - Service - Install - this installs the synchronizer in the services. We start the service and - voila - we observe the files merged with GCal.

Now - the most interesting part. Open the Rainlendar settings, the “Calendars” tab, then “Add” - “iCalendar Format” - specify our files. After that, in the calendar settings, select “Monitor changes” - “yes” (this is so that Rainlendar itself picks up synchronized calendars) and select the appropriate “Visual category”. For events in the “Birthdays” category, the number of years from the beginning of the event will be reported (I promised) - very convenient. Of course, for this you need to correctly indicate the year of birth of the birthday person.

Save the settings. Rainlendar now includes events from your Google calendars. We rejoice.

In Action

If there are two machines - at work and at home - this way we synchronize both. If only I had access to Google Calendar.

Mac drivers can just as easily synchronize iCal, so the problem of “Mac at home, Windows at work” disappears. I'm using Ubuntu at work.

Here. I hope this helps you get organized, remember birthdays, and stay on top of things. Good luck!