Hi everyone. So I want to do a video on the ways that I use Google calendar.
So as you see,
I have everything like I lived through this calendar.
If I don't have this calendar near me and on my phone,
I don't know what's going on and I will double book triple book myself.
And so this is the way that I can make sure that I have everything in the
calendar. One thing, and I'll show this in when I'm going through.
It is the fact that I do also add my work on here as
well as other things as well.
So,
one thing that I did was that I have calendars for the different areas of my
life. So as you see, these are all my calendars. It's a bit excessive,
but it works for me.
I also use the reminders was trying to use Google tasks.
And that's one of the complaints that I have about Google is that they don't
have one direction. So for those who use Google, there was Gmail.
And then there was inbox. They finally got rid of inbox,
the inbox use reminders.
And so I started using reminders. And as you see, this is the purple,
those are my reminders. But then later on data cited,
let's get rid of inbox and we'll go to Gmail and Gmail uses tasks.
So I use both, which is a little frustrating.
And the other part that really annoys me as well is the fact that if you do have
Google home, which is what I do, what I do have Google home,
they use reminders.
So in Google home, you can have different routines.
And I think I might do a video on that,
but it doesn't link up to tasks.
So after playing around with it for a little bit,
I decided to just go back to reminders. If I do have something in my Gmail,
then I'll use tasks,
but that's something that Google needs to work out is what do they want people
to use?
So again,
these are the calendars that I've created for the different parts of my life.
Um, I try to have them mirror my life categories,
but as you see, I do have some that span out of that life category.
Like I have one for my son, the things that have to do just with, for him,
things that have to do with my daughter and then things that have to do with
both of them.
Um, I do have one for school as well as work.
And then I have the ones for the
additional things that I'm doing.
So blogging would be for this channel as well as the blog that goes along
with this channel. And then I have one for my podcast.
I do have a true crime podcasts and YouTube channels.
So that's what this coincides with.
The other things that I have is,
um, tasks that I, I mean, uh, calendars that I subscribed to.
So those are having to do with external
applications.
So I have my Trello boards and my
notion.
Um, I have that as well. I am transitioning to notion,
so that's why I still have both.
And then I have one for my son's high school,
which he just graduated. So I won't know, I won't need anymore.
Um, and then I have my TripIt cause I use TripIt,
um, to keep,
uh, you know, travel all my travel organized.
And then I believe I also have my MBA,
like we use canvas. And so I have the canvas calendar.
I subscribed to that.
And so that's everything you see in my calendar for work.
I hated the fact that I did not have
in view of things that I have at work.
And so one thing that I use, I think they changed the name.
I got to look to see what the name is now, but it used to be Microsoft,
Microsoft flow, which is kind of like IFTTT if use IFTTT or zip here.
Um, it's very similar to that. So I have a Microsoft flow and as I said,
they did change the name. I just can't remember what the name is,
but I have a flow that basically any outlook event that is created,
it creates one in my work calendar in Google.
And so then I can have everything in one place.
I also have the, um, I decided after doing some playing around,
I do have the Google calendar on my phone and with the Google calendar,
it has goals again,
Google find out what you want to focus on and focus on that.
Um, but I decided to just stick, I use an iPhone.
I decided to just stick with my iPhone calendar because I like one thing that I
do love about my iPhone calendar is the fact that I
can put an address.
And then from there I can have a travel time because there are a lot of,
especially if you have to leave the house like for doctor's appointments or pick
up groceries or things like that,
if let's say it starts at one 30,
that is not really the time that you're actually starting that appointment.
It's the travel time as well.
So that's one thing I like about my iPhone is that it does the travel time.
So that's the reason that I'm still using it.
So that is something that I do is make sure that I have
everything and it helps with the color.
Like I like seeing every category in different colors.
So that's one of the reasons that I also like having separate calendars in my
Google calendar. So this is what you see here. Um,
you see my reminders and the different, um,
things that are going on throughout the day.
Um, I also let me move my face. Um,
I have it in seven days because then I can see seven days out. But if you want,
you can see the day,
you can see the monthly, the monthly good for like,
when you're doing like your monthly planning,
um, or trying to see like what is going on and rest of the month,
they're trying to schedule something and then,
um, they have, you know,
schedule. So if you want to see it and more of a schedule,
this is good for like, if you want to print it out and have it somewhere.
I know that's very useful for some people, they print it out.
So that's that as well. But for me,
I usually just use the seven day and I have seen that outlook has kind of
married this as well.
Um,
outlook also now finally started having the seven days.
It's been a couple of years, but for me,
I remember that was one of my complaints is, Hey, can I see it in seven days?
So I have seen that outlook. It's taking a lot from Google calendar.
One of the great things about Google calendar as well is that you can use,
if you are someone who likes to automate your life,
you can use IFTTT or is up here.
I prefer if I've had issues with Zappy or stops working.
Um, so I prefer if,
um, and then as well as it connects you to Google home.
So I got Google home, probably I think it was like 2018. I got it.
And I remember that they had a huge defect that the only
Google, only one primary Google calendar was show up,
but they've actually fixed that. I don't know exactly when they fix it.
I just know that now all my calendars show up. And if I ask Google,
Hey, um,
what are my upcoming events?
It will actually tell me all the events from all the like me do these calendars.
It doesn't do this. Subscribe, the other calendars,
which are usually the calendar she subscribed to,
but it will do it for all these calendars. So I think that's amazing.
So that is the way that I organize my
calendar.
And so I would love to hear the ways that you organize your life to make
sure that you don't forget anything like for getting your kids in school.
That's never happened to me.
Um, there was one time, a really funny story.
There was one time that I rushed my kids to school in the morning and I dropped
them off. And then later, like maybe five minutes later,
I got a phone call for that from them. And they were like, mom,
we don't have school today.
And the reason why was because I did not have it in my calendar. So yeah,
it's sad how much I live by my calendar,
but it does help me because if someone,
especially at work, I had a lot of meetings.
So if someone wants a meeting and I make sure that it doesn't
coincide with this calendar,
because then if let's say I have a doctor's appointment or something like that,
I can tell that person, Hey, that time's not going to work. We need to switch,
change it. Or if I'm the one scheduling a meeting,
I make sure that it doesn't coincide with other parts of my life.
So let me know what calendar you use.
Do you use outlook? Do you use Google or maybe,
um,
another one. I know there's other calendars outfit. Um,
do you use the Google calendar app?
What are you using for that? I did forget one thing. If you are using Google,
keep that's another thing that I do,
um, with my calendar as well. And that's why I just love Google calendar.
It's very like just a lot of functionality to use. And so as you see here,
I have my gratitude list and it gives me from Google. Keep,
I can say like, Hey, can you, like,
I can put reminders on there and it'll actually put it on my Google calendar.
So I try to always remember what I'm grateful for.
And then I write it in this Google keep list that I have of all the things that
I'm grateful for.
And it helps me when I'm feeling pretty down or I'm feeling like everything is
going to shit. I can go to that calendar and see,
or I can go to that list and see what I should be grateful for.
So just let me know, like,
what else you want to know about Google calendar or other Google,
Google applications? I actually use a lot of them. I also use, I mean,
I just love applications.
Like I've always been someone who's more of an early adopter and I like testing
them out. It might be because I work in it.
And so I love doing that kind of stuff.
And then I write a bunch of enhancements requests and I know probably these
companies are like, Oh my God, give it a rest, but that's what I do.
So just let me know what calendar you use, how you use any to do list.
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And I did take a hiatus because my grandson was born.
And so I was helping my daughter to, you know, with taking care of him.
Cause the first two weeks of postpartum,
some for some majority of women, it kind of sucks.
So I wanted to give her that extra help.
And now I'm ready to start making videos weekly as well
as blog posts.
So I will talk to you later and I hope that you have a
wonderful week. Bye.