This week has not gone to plan. I’ve been unwell, work has been busy, and life has thrown a few unexpected challenges my way. A younger version of me would have tried to push through, hold everything in my head, and hope for the best. That approach never worked for me.
One thing that kept me steady was something very simple: my system kept working, even when I couldn’t.
Continue reading One small system that kept me steady this week
This week, I thought it would be useful to add a recurring event to my calendar to remind me of when pay day is.
My company pays its employees on the last working day of each month. If the final day of the month is a Saturday or Sunday then they bump it back to the Friday.
But the last working day of the month isn’t an option in Google Calendar’s recurring appointment options.
Continue reading How to set up recurring events on the last working day of the month in Google Calendar
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post called An overview of my planning and productivity system in 2019. I was discussing it with a couple of people last week and thought it was probably about time that I updated it to reflect how things have evolved during that time.
During the last few years, my basic tools have not changed. As I said in my last post, for a long time I tried to limit myself to using only one task management application. I would periodically switch between Trello and something else (Outlook tasks, Wunderlist, Todoist). Eventually, I realised that I could use different tools for different jobs. For me, a good organisation system should enable you to do the following, and this is what I use:
My personal organisation system has evolved over the years in an iterative and rather agile approach.
This post outlines the major building blocks of my current system.
Continue reading An overview of my planning and productivity system in 2019I got an email this week from Calgoo announcing that their calendar sync and share products are now free, as of 22 July 2008.
Here’s what they had to say:
Over the past two years, Calgoo Software has been developing the most complete calendar suite on the market. We released a full-featured desktop calendar program, the only Google Calendar sync solution that works with both iCal & Outlook, as well the world’s first cross platform calendar sharing service. We are also working behind the scenes on our new in-calendar advertising models and are close to releasing these.
I’ve used Calgoo Connect in the past to sync Outlook with Google Calendar, and I was impressed.